Enguerrand Ier de Coucy

Enguerrand de Boves or Enguerrand Ier (approx. 1042 - 1116). Wire of Dreux or Drogon de Boves. He inherits his father the seigniory of Boves. By marrying Ade de Marle, it acquires the seigniories of Marle, Coucy (by its first husband) and of Fère.
In 1085, it became count d' Amiens of the chief of his grandmother. In 1105, the Abbaye of Saint-Fuscien in the south of Amiens was equipped by Enguerrand de Boves with the very whole seigniory.

He became owner in 1080 Château of Coucy of which he gave the name to these descendants. He had the title of prince.

Family

Enguerrand Ier and Ade de Marle, girl of Létaud (or Létard) of Roucy (or Marle), lord of Marle, and niece of the count Ebles Ier de Roucy had two children:
  1. Thomas de Marle
  2. Agnes de Coucy
The abbot Guibert de Nogent note that Thomas de Marle had a so ignominieuse mother, i.e. of a life if overflowed, that for that he was never liked much of his father.

Enguerrand was not either free from sin, since he devoted himself extremely to the love of the other women, and in particular, from the countess of Namur whose husband was a close relative, that he even will marry of living of this last.

According to the sources, after having repudiated Ade de Marle for adultery or after its widowhood, Enguerrand de Boves marries in second weddings, Sibylle of Castle-Porcien, repudiated ex-wife of Godefroi Ier de Namur, girl of Roger count de Porcien and of a woman of poor condition.

History

It takes part in the First crusade in 1096 and is present at the seat of Antioche which capitulates the June 3rd 1098. The legend says that it is Enguerrand Ier which, during a combat against the Moors at the time of the First crusade in Holy Land, having lost its banner, cut out in bands its doubled blue coat of red to make of it a news which will become thereafter the Armoiries of Coucy: 3 red bands and 3 made bands of bells, head-digs, blue azure and white.

In 1100, returned to France, it enters in conflict with his son Thomas de Marle and then obtains to the support of his cousin the bishop Enguerrand of Laon. It is reconciled then with him during the events of the commune of Amiens to fight against the revolted middle-class men.

The inhabitants of Amiens having obtained from the king Louis-the-Large, the permission to be established in commune, with the support of Geoffroy, the bishop, and Guermond, the vidame, asked Thomas to support them in their works against Adam, the lord of the manor who held the guard of the Tower of Castillon, and Enguerrand, the count, his father. But Thomas was reconciled with his father and fought with him against the inhabitants of Amiens. Inhabitants to obtain the support of the king Louis-the-Large which sent reinforcement to him. The seat lasted two years. Thomas sought avenged and made carry out Gautier, half-brother of Sybille. The clergy then decided to excommunicate him in 1114 at the time of their assembly in Beauvais. The king attacked Thomas, removed the castles of Crespy and Nogent and ruined the forts set up on the grounds belonging to the abbey of Saint Jean de Laon.

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History of the castle of Coucy by Antoine-Louis Saint-Just

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