Thomas de Marle (known as Thomas Feriæ, of Fère ) (1078 - † 1130), wire of Enguerrand de Boves and Ade de Marle. It was lord de Coucy, lord of Fère which came to him from his/her maternal grandfather, Létard (or Létaud) of Marle (or of Roucy), brother of the count, Ebles Ier de Roucy.
Family
Before leaving in crusade, Thomas was married in first weddings with Ide de Hainaut († 1101), girl of Baudouin II of Hainaut and widow of Guy de Chièvres. He had with Ide de Hainaut two girls:- Ide or Bazilie which married:
- * Gille, and
- * Hadevide which married Canon, lord of Villers and Ham; then
- * Enguerrand.
- Beatrice, married to Erard III, lord of Breteuil-in-Beauvaisis from which was born:
Towards 1102, it married in second weddings a girl of Roger, lord of Montaigu and Ermengarde. This marriage was cancelled in 1104 due to consanguinity.
In third weddings, he married in 1104 Mélisende de Crécy († 1114), girl of Guy († 1147), lord of Crécy-on-Greenhouse, with which he had:
- Mélisende de Crécy (v.1107 - †?) who épousea:
- Enguerrand II of Coucy (v.1110 - † 1147/1149)
- Robert de Boves (? - † 1191), lord of Boves and count d' Amiens. He married Béatrix of Saint-pol., girl of Hugues II, Count of Saint-pol..
History
Thomas de Marle was lord of Coucy, Boves, Marle, Fère, Crépy and Vervins. As the paternity of his/her father was doubtful, this last hated his/her Thomas son and would have liked to disinherit it. His/her known mother Ade de Marle also under the name of Ade de Roucy, was repudiated by her husband for adultery.Party in April 1096 with his/her father for the 1 {{Re}} crusade, Thomas covered glory and took part there in several battles: Nicée (06/1097), Dorylée (07/1097), Al-Bara (12 1097), Antioche (06/1098), and in July 1099 Jerusalem where it one of first was crossed to enter there.
Returned at the country, certainly frustrated and disappointed little of profit of a so long forwarding in Holy Land, Thomas de Marle installed in the fortress of Montaigu, started to devastate and devastate the areas around Laon, of Amiens to Rheims.
Enguerrand de Boves, his/her father, of it was extremely dissatisfied and made the seat of the fortress with:
- Ebles II of Roucy, wire of Hildouin,
- Andre de Roucy, Count de Rameru, his brother,
- Hugues says the White, lord of Laferté,
- Robert de Péronne, lord of Crespy.
In 1113, the inhabitants of Amiens obtained from the king Louis VI the Large the permission to be established in common. With the support of their bishop, Geoffroy and vidame Guermond, they asked Thomas de Marle 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 reconciled himself with his father and fought with him against the inhabitants of Amiens. Thomas seized the grounds and neighbouring villages, made disorders and cruelties. Sybille, his/her mother-in-law who held it in enmity, betrays it by informing Gormond de Picquigny of its intrigues. Guermond tightened a ambush to him and blow of lance in the bulge wounded seriously it. Thomas took refuge in his castle of Marle. Gormond de Picquigny benefitted from it to attack the castle where Adam ordered. He obtained the support of the king Louis VI who sent reinforcement to him which entered to Amiens on April 11th, 1115
Returned in Marle to look after itself, Thomas sought to be avenged and made carry out Gautier, archdeacon of Laon, half-brother of Sybille, which had supported its hybrid marriage and which was one of the principal instigators of the revolt of Amiènois. The clergy then decided to excommunicate him at the time of a synod held in Beauvais on December 6th, 1114.
As Thomas continued his misdeeds, the king was constrained to attack it; he removed to him the castles of Crécy and Nouvion and ruined the forts set up on the grounds belonging to the abbey Midsummer's Day de Laon. The king besieged then the tower of Castillon and shaved it after two years of seat.
Thomas made peace with the king against a great sum of sums of money and the promise which it made repair all the damage made with the church.
After the death of Enguerrand de Boves in 1116, the king Louis VI the Large one entrusted the Comté of Amiens to Adèle de Vermandois, girl of Herbert IV and Adèle de Crespy (or Alix), itself girl of Raoul, count d' Amiens. Adele de Vermandois gave it at once in dowry to her daughter born of a second marriage with Renaud de Clermont, Marguerite de Clermont which Maria with Charles Ier of Flanders which requests also the title of Count d' Amiens.
To be avenged for what the king had given the county of Amiens which was to return to him from right following death of his/her father, Thomas was combined with Baudouin, Count de Hainaut and Hugues, Count of Saint-pol.. He killed Henri de Vermandois, the son Adèle de Vermandois, and brother of Raoul Ier de Vermandois known as Valiant the .
In October 1130, Thomas was seriously wounded by the count de Vermandois Raoul Ier Valiant the at the time of the seat of Coucy ordered by the king Louis VI who wanted to finish some with the exactions of sound Vassal. Thomas de Marle returned the heart the November 9th 1130. Raoul thus avenged death for his brother Henri (1091 - † 1130), lord of Chaumont-in-Vexin. Thomas was buried under the tower of the abbey church of Nogent-under-Coucy and its body remained there juqu' at April 3rd 1219, date where it was transferred in the new church that its grandson Enguerrand III had made build.
(The chronicler of the time, Guibert de Nogent, abbot of the Benedictine abbey of Nogent-under-Coucy, known as of him that he was the largest known rascal of his time)
Related articles
- List of the lords of Coucy
- Coucy
- Castle of Coucy
- House of Coucy
External bonds
- Genealogy of Thomas de Marle
- Any knowledge on Thomas de Marle
- Of the catch of the castle of Montaigu per Louis VI (1103)
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