Ebles II of Roucy

Ebles II of Montdidier († May 1103), was count de Roucy of 1063 with 1104, was wire of Hildouin IV of Montdidier, count de Roucy and lord of Ramerupt and Alix de Roucy.

It left for Spain to fight what is called the Sarrasins during the Croisade of Barbastro (1064), then helped Sanche Ramirez, king d' Aragon, to make the conquest of the Royaume of Navarre (1076). With this second forwarding took part also its nephew Rotrou III of the Pole. After the victory Sanche married Félicie de Roucy, the sister of Ebles.

One can suppose that it took part in other remote adventures, and in particular against Byzance with Robert Guiscard, prince de Salerne, then that it married the girl of it, about 1081. In 1082, it made the donation of its roadway systems with Mortcerf with the abbey of Saint Martin's day of Pontoise.

Ebles and wire did not take part in the First crusade, which is surprising, being given their adventurous character and alliances contracted with lords of the Latin East.

It had took share with the crusades in Spain and Italy while hoping to receive a principality more important than its county of Roucy, but did not obtain anything. Of Champagne return, he sought to cut a principality with depends on his neighbors, and the archbishop of Rheims. Suger qualifies it, like his/her Guiscard son, of very tyrannical and tumultuous baron, describing the devastations which it made in Rémois. During the summer 1102, the king Louis VI the Large had to leave in war, to put an end to his depredations and to subject it.

Marriage and children

Of his wife Sibyl of Hauteville, girl of Robert Guiscard, prince de Salerne, and of Sykelgaite of Salerno, it left:

Guiscard Cholet
Thomas Cholet
Hugues I {{er}} Cholet (v. 1090 † 1160), count de Roucy
Ebles, father of another Ebles.
Manassès, father of a Thomas and Pétronille, married to Raoul, count of Old woman-City
Ermengarde, married to Gervais, lord of Bazoches, probably relative of Gervais de Bazoches, prince de Galilée
Mabille (v. 1095 † 1122), married in first weddings with Hugues of Puiset (1070 † 1112), lord of Puiset (Hugues II) and count de Jaffa (Hugues Ier), and in second weddings in 1121 with Albert de Namur (1070 † 1122), count regent of Jaffa.
Agnes, married to Geoffroy de Ribeaumont, then in Simon II, lord of Clermont-in-Basogny.

An unknown family

The Chronicon Lætiense mentions Ebles, count de Roucy, wire of Hildouin and prère of four girls:

Béatrix, married to Gauthier de Fontaine.
a girl married to Alard de Châtelain.
a girl married to Henri de Birbais.
a girl married to Guillaume de Hauterive.

The only count de fore-mentioned Roucy Ebles and wire of Hildouin are Ebles II, but the girls and sons-in-law mentioned by the chronicle do not correspond to the known girls and to son-in-law and. In fact, one cannot which credit grant to this information.

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