Ebles II (Roucy)

Ebles II († May 1103 ) was Count of Roucy and Lord of Ramerupt from 1063 to 1103.

He was the son of Hilduins IV, Count of Montdidier , Lord of Ramerupt and his wife, Countess Adelaide of Roucy, and inherited the County of Roucy and the lordship of Ramerupt when his father died.

Life

Around 1073 Ebles led a large army, which according to Suger von Saint-Denis was worthy of a king, to Spain to fight the Moors . Pope Alexander II and the abbot Hugo von Cluny had already promoted this campaign since the Aragonese king Sancho Ramírez , after the reconquest of Barbastro by the Moors in 1065, had approached Rome politically and religiously . All of Eble's conquests were to be made in favor of St. Peters , and he was assured of full absolution for this campaign, which is why this military engagement can be viewed as an anticipation of the crusades . Ebel's sister, Felicia , had been married to the King of Aragón since around 1070, whom he and his nephew Rotrou III. von Perche supported his cousin Sancho IV of Navarre instead of going against the Moors.

Then Ebles moved to Lower Italy where he supported the Norman ruler Robert Guiscard in his fight against the Byzantine Empire under Alexios I. Komnenos . Around 1082 he married Guiscard's daughter Sibylle.

Back in France , Ebles and his son Guiscard led several feuds against their neighbors, especially against the Archbishops of Reims, whose lands they devastated. It was only after a military intervention by Crown Prince Ludwig (VI) in 1102 that Ebles submitted and ended his raids.

Marriage and offspring

Ebles II of Roucy had been married to Sibylle de Hauteville, a daughter of Robert Guiscard and the Sikelgaita of Salerno , from around 1082 . With her he had five sons and three daughters:

• Guiscard
• Thomas
• Hugues I , called Cholet († around 1160), successor as Count of Roucy, Lord of Nizy-le-Comte and Sévigny
• Ebles
• Manassès
• Ermengarde († after 1156)
  • ∞ Gervaise, lord of Bazoches-sur-Vesles († before 1169)
• Mabille († after 1122),
  • ∞ I) Hugo von Le Puiset († 1118), Count of Jaffa,
  • ∞ II) around 1118 Albert of Namur († before 1122), regent of Jaffa
• Agnes,
  • ∞ I) Geoffroy de Ribeaumont,
  • ∞ II) before 1119 Simon II. De Clefmont-en-Basogny († after 1129).

see also: House Montdidier

swell

• Suger of Saint-Denis : Vita Ludovici Grossi Regis.

literature

• Joseph F. O'Callaghan: A History of Medieval Spain. 1983.

Web links

• Abbot Suger: Life of King Louis the Fat by Paul Halsall, 1999 (English)
• Ebles de Ramerupt at fmg.ac (English)

predecessor	Office	successor
Hildouin of Montdidier (de iure uxoris)	Earl of Roucy 1063-1103	Hugo I.