Raoul V Flamenc

Raoul de Flamenc was born in 1230 in Picardy and died in 1287.

Marshal of France, lord.

Its portrait is in 1846 in IVe room of the crusades of the Palais of Versailles, but it is not reproduced on the site of the photographic agency of the NMR, in 2007.

Its family

Raoul is the son of Raoul IV Flamenc, lord of Cany, Varesnes, Beaulincourt, and of Marie NR.

He is the downward one of a seigneuriale family, possessionné mainly with the surroundings Canny-on-Matz, in Picardy. Their other ground, Varesnes is a considerable seigniory. It belongs as of 1128 to Raoul Ier Flamenc. Adam de Canny, his grandson, concedes in 1226 various rights of use to the inhabitants and Raoul IV, father of this Marshal of France, in 1248, yields the royalties to his Marie wife, of which we know only the first name.

Flamenc or Flamenc carries: Sand , with 10 money rhombuses, posed 3,3,3,1.

Biography

Raoul V Flamenc takes share with the Seventh crusade. Saint Louis undertakes this Croisade in 1248 with the blessing of the pope Innocent IV. They start from Acute-Dead in France in 1248. The crusaders winter with Cyprus, before leaving guerroyer against the Egypt and the Syria. The crusade ends in 1254.

The crusaders easily seize Damiette in 1249. But after these first successes, the army takes Mansourah and is taken there with the trap and victim of an epidemic. Saint Louis, weakened, beats a retreat. It is even made prisoner with two of its brothers. It is obliged, to recover its freedom to pay 400.000 gold besants. Lastly, the king and his army are beaten with the Fariskur, in May 1250.

Raoul V Flamenc is fifth lord of Cany in 1270.

Raoul V Flamenc is carried in the list of Ducange like having six knights eating with him with the hotel of the king.

We find it quoted with the Croisade of Aragon of the king Philippe Bold the in 1284. It is described as Marshal of France.

The French Armies enter in Roussillon in 1284 with the blessing of the lord of the region, but encounter local resistances, like that of the city of Elne, ordered by a knight named the bastard of Roussillon , undoubtedly an illegitimate son of Nuno Sanche, lord of Roussillon, which must be reduced by the force. In spite of the presence of pontifical legates, Philippe Bold the in 1284 does not hesitate to put fire at the doors of the cathedral and to massacre there the inhabitants who had found refuge there. In 1285, Philippe the Bold met the seat in front of Gérone, which he manages to take in spite of a strong resistance of the city. His/her son and heir Philippe, negotiated with Pierre III a sure passage through the Pyrenees for him and the members of his family, but not for his sick troops, which are decimated with the Bataille of the collar of Panissars. Philippe Bold the dies in Perpignan. Raoul V Flamenc continues to fight. He exerts this load with Jean II of Harcourt until in 1287, like in fact faith a state of the house of the king Philippe Beautiful the. He perhaps died in the combat in Spain, because the war finishes only in 1295.

Descent

Raoul V Flamenc Marie with Helvide de Conflans , girl of Eustace II Torchapeaux, Sr of Conflans and Mareuil, nephew of the count de Brienne, marshal of Champagne and Helvide de Thourotte.

The Anselme Father, volume VI, p.638 note one 2nd marriage with Jeanne of Chaumont while specifying: One could not sçavoir from which from these two women his/her children came.

It has at least seven children of which:

Isabelle X Robert, lord of Beaumetz and lord of the manor of Bapaume,
Raoul VI, which dies very young person in the Bataille of the gold spurs, in 1302

and a many descent.

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