Bouchard d\' Avesnes (1182-1244)

See also: Bouchard d' Avesnes

Bouchard d' Avesnes , born towards 1180 and died in 1244, is lord of Avesnes and Étrœungt, and Baillif of Hainaut. It is wire of Jacques, lord of Avesnes, and Adele, lady of Own way, and brother of Gautier II of Avesnes, which becomes by marriage count de Blois and of Chartres.

Noble hennuyer, it begins its career like Chantre and under Diacre with the Church of Laon and is named baillif of the Comté of Hainaut in 1212. For this reason, it with the supervision of Marguerite, sister of Jeanne, countess of Flanders and of Hainaut, which had sent Marguerite to withdraw it from the ambitions of the partisans of king de France. Quickly they marry each other, but Marguerite is only ten years old, and the counts of Flanders Jeanne and her husband Ferrand did not give their assent.

It enhardit and invades the fields of his Gauitier brother, with whom it reproaches for having collected the majority of the paternal heritage. It invades then the Comté of Flanders, so that Shoeing and Jeanne accept the marriage of their sister and equip it. It fights under the Flemish banner with Bouvines.

Following this victory of king de France, the pope, probably over the council of this last, declares the marriage of illegal Bouchard and Marguerite and nap the husbands to separate. In front of their insubordination, it excommunicates them the January 19th 1216. Baudouin and Marguerite, who have already a son, Baudouin († 1219), take refuge in the Comté of Luxembourg where are born to them two other wire:

Jean (1218 † 1257), and
Baudouin d' Avesnes (1219? - 1289), lord of Beaumont, father, inter alia Beatrice d' Avesnes († 1321) married with the count Henri VI of Luxembourg

During a combat, Bouchard is captured and imprisoned with Ghent during two years. To obtain her release, Marguerite accepts the dissolution of her marriage. Bouchard leaves then to Italy where it fights for the Holy See. Returned to Flanders, he is decapitated in Rupelmonde by order of the Jeanne countess.

Source

Note of Jean d' Avesnes his son, in
MONTLOON, reflection faithful of the mountain of Laon and the surroundings of 1100 to 1300 of Suzanne Trip hammer - June 1972

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