Raoul Ier de Coucy

Raoul de Coucy , (v. 1134 - † 1191), lord of Coucy, lord of Marle, Fère, Crécy (on-Greenhouse), of Vervins, Pinon, Landouzy (the-City), of Fountain (lès-Vervins).
It left for the Holy Land where it perishes with the seat of Midsummer's Day d' Acre (called Ptolèmaïs during the Antiquité), in 1191.

Genealogy

Its back grandfather: Enguerrand de Boves († 1116), count d' Amiens, lord of Boves and Fère which became owner in 1080 castle of Coucy of which it gave the name to his descendants. It had the title of prince. He died in 1116. The house of Boves drew its origin from a lord called Dreux or Drogon, which illustrated under the reigns of the kings Robert II and Henri I {{er}}.

His/her grandfather: Thomas de Marle († 1130), wire of Enguerrand de Boves and Ade de Marle, lord of Boves and Fère and count d' Amiens. It was the first to take the title of lord de Coucy. He died in Laon in 1130.

His/her father: Enguerrand II of Coucy (v. † 1148), wire of Thomas de Marle, married in 1131 Agnès de Beaugency, German cousin of the king Louis VII of France, and girl of Mahaut or Mathilde de Vermandois, it even girl of Hugues Ier de Vermandois, brother of the king Philippe Ier de France. Being crossed, like Évrard de Breteuil, his brother-in-law, it accompanied the king Louis the Young person with the Second crusade. They died both after the year 1147.

Raoul Ier de Coucy married:

(source: " historical Memories on Raoul de Coucy. One joined there the collection of his songs as old man… " By Jean-Benjamin Laborde)

History

Raoul de Coucy, being seen widowed, and eager of male child, took again the one second alliance with Alix de Dreux, princess of royal blood, and its relationship with the fourth degree because his/her mother, Agnès de Beaugency, was the girl of Mahaut de Vermandois, oldest daughter of Hugues de France known as Large the , brother of the king Philippe I {{er}}. Pareillement this Alix de Dreux was girl of Robert Ier de Dreux, count of Dreux, small son of the same king Philippe I {{er}}, and niece of the king Louis VII the Young person. Alix de Dreux had as a mother Agnès de Baudémont, countess of Braine, third woman of her father Robert Ier de Dreux, and for brother Robert II the Young person († December 28th 1218), count de Dreux and of Braine, which was married with Yolande de Coucy oldest daughter of our Raoul and Agnès de Hainaut his first wife. With the means of which two marriages, Raoul became father-in-law of a large prince, son-in-law of a son of France, and first cousin by his wife of the king Philippe Auguste. Raoul assisted the king of France in 1181 during the war against Philippe of Alsace, count de Flandre, although before it had taken of him in homage the grounds of Marle and Vervins, with the stronghold of Ferté-Beliard, that the count transported to him. But by the peace treaty granted since the king wanted that this count gave this homage to him. And besides the same Raoul became liege man of the king for the stronghold of the seigniory of Fère, which it had held hitherto of the Church of Laon. Because Roger de Rosoy, bishop of Laon, yielded it to the king Philippe Auguste, by letter passed in Paris in 1185, in the presence of Baudouin V of Hainaut, count de Hainaut, of Enguerrand, archidiatre of Laon, Jean of Fontenay, Girard Chotard, and Geoffroy, chaplain of the king.

However marriage of the princess Alix de Dreux and of this Raoul, lord of Coucy, came several children. Assent of which, and of their mother, it granted the Notre-Dame abbey of Mount-Saint-Martin, (Gouy (Aisne)) of the diocese of Cambrai, the exemption from duty of fortifying for eight wine carriages every year, by dispatched letters with Coucy in 1187. And then it yawned half of its chaussee of Crécy to be made and maintain in Robert the Acre: provided that from each carriage and closed cart, it receives a sum of money of such currency that one paid him for fortifyings, and of not shoed sum of money of the common currency which had course in the Earth. What to the same Alix his wife granted, in the presence of Raoul, clerk his nephew, of Marguerite, her niece woman of Jobert, lord of Ferté-Bélard, Raoul de Houssel, Albéric de Boomont, Arnoul de Monceaux, and others. Then in 1188, of the liking and will of aforesaid the Alix and her children, it religious admortit them of the Notre-Dame abbey of Thenailles eight Muid S of wheat of revenue to the measurement of Marle, which were to him alms by Robert, knight lord of Emblaincourt. Besides it gave them a ground called $the Hague of Blaincourt: with the load that being essartée and being cultivated; he and its successors would have half of the fruits which grow there. Because thus the letters carry it, that Pierre his chancellor delivered the year 1089 of it to them. In short being, of going to the voyage of the Holy Land with the king Philippe Auguste was the point, it confirmed and increased still with the assent of his wife the donations that his/her father Enguerrand II of Coucy had conceded with the abbey of Clairfontaines. Of what there were other assées letters with Vervins on May 25th 1190. However before to leave, it made a division of its grounds and seigniories between the newborns of him and this Alix de Dreux, his second wife.

" Me, Raoul, Seigneur of Coucy, want that it is notorious of all, present and future, that being ready to leave for Jerusalem, and fearing that it does not rise some difficulties between my children, about the share of each one of them, I laid out of my goods, according to whether I considered to be suitable, and after having taken the council of people of probity who are attached to me. " I thus gave to Enguerrand, my oldest son, all my grounds and seigniories, to be by him had peacefully, and without unspecified complaint, except the dismemberments which were made by it in favor of my other children, and who are such:
" I want that Thomas, my son, has in free and quiet possession, and without being worried of anybody, Vervins, Fontaine and Landouzy; and that it withdraws annually on the rights of fortifying of Vervins and Landouzy sixty books in currency, such as one employs it in the aforementioned fortifying, and his possessions, it will be man-liege of his brother Enguerrand.
" I assigned with Raoul, which has a clerical title, forty books of revenue, to take on my incomes of Roye, and this, all the time of his vie.
" As for Robert, it will for its part have all the goods which were brought to me in marriage by his/her mother, and my ground of Pinon, with the whole royalty of a certain wood which one names vugairement the passage of Pinon; and it will hold all these goods with the load of full homage to his brother Enguerrand; and if it happens that the aforementioned brother Enguerrand has suddenly died without heir, its share will turn over to Thomas his brother; and if on the contrary of the aforesaid children, whatever it is, has suddenly died without leaving of heir, its share will turn over entirely to the ainé.
" As regards my daughter Agnes, I him give thousand and six hundred books, currency of Artois, to take on the incomes of Marle and Crécy; which summons it will make the eight years space be received, to begin only three years fallen after my departure. Thus, the day of Remi saint of each year, it will receive hundred books with Marle, and the hundred other remaining pounds with Crécy; and one will charge the church with Prémontré of the care to make him touch his revenus.
And if it happens that, during my voyage of overseas, I come to die, if in the same way the aforementioned Agnès, my daughter, ceases living before being married, all that will remain to him of oomptant money will be divided in two halves, of which one will be given to Alix, his/her mother, which is my wife, and the other will be bequeathed in alms to Hospital, Templiers and the church of Prémontré, to be divided by equal part.
" And finally if it arrives to us, with Alix, my wife aisi that to me, to die, a half of the aforesaid the nap will pass to oldest son, and the other will have the first destination.
" I hear that my possessions, as well as the rights of Alix my wife, were not at all strikes, wanting that my arrangements, even monkeys of me, making all the time I will live dependant on my will; however, so that this act of division of my goods is authentic and irrevocable (to less however than I would have gone to change something there), I wanted that he was written, and sealed my seal. Fact the year of the incarnation of JC 1190. is in Latin

Because it was killed with the seat of the town of Acre the year thousand hundred and four twenty eleven, and its body brought in the abbey of Foigny in Thiérache. Then of what, Alix her widow sent the commune of Marle to the help of Robert, lord of Pierrepont, for war which it had the year thousand hundred and four twenty fifteen in the diocese of Laon against Nicolas, lord of Rumigny. And in the year thousand two hundred and seven it approved all alms that the same Raoul, her husband, had granted on his douaire the Church of Prémontré. In short she lived in the year thousand two hundred and twelve more, like teaches an agreement made at the time between Thomas and Robert her children, to which she assisted.

Extract of " genealogical History of the houses of Guines, Ardres, Ghent and Coucy " - Paris 1631 - BNF

Caption

One says that before returning the last sigh, Raoul charged his rider with carrying, after his death, his heart with the lady which he liked (that the ones name the Dame of Fayel , the others Gabrielle de Vergy). The rider was surprised by the husband at the time when he discharged his mission. This one took the heart and made it eat with its wife, who, educated too late of her misfortune, the Jura not to take food more and let herself die of hunger.

This adventure provided to Pierre Laurent de Belloy the subject of its tragedy of Gabrielle de Vergy .

Georges-Adrien Crapelet published the History of Coucy and the lady of Fayel , according to a manuscript of the National library of France, Paris, 1829.

There are under the name of R. of Coucy 24 songs, which were published in 1830 by Francisque Michel.

The Raoul de Coucy of this legend would be in fact the son of Enguerrand de Coucy, brother of Raoul Ier de Coucy. The Raoul of this legend would be thus the neuveu of Raoul Ier de Coucy.

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