Vitry County

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The county of Vitry , located in north-eastern France in the west of today's Marne department with the capital Vitry, later Vitry-le-Brûlé and Vitry-en-Perthois (today's Vitry-le-François is a founding of King Francis I in the immediate vicinity . after the original Vitry was destroyed), one of the counties was owned by the same family as Count Valois . It was inherited by the Counts of Vermandois (from the House of Carolingians ) to the Counts of Champagne and then merged into this new territory.

Counts of Vitry

• Etienne (Stephanus) I († 1020), Count of Meaux , Troyes and Vitry, son of Count Heribert the Younger of Meaux, Troyes, Provins († January 28, 995) ( Carolingian )

• Raoul III, † 1074, Count of Valois , Crépy and Vitry (around 1050) ( First House of Valois )
• Simon, † 1080, Count of Valois etc., Count of Vitry, resigns in 1077

In 1077 Simon joined a monastery and his possessions were distributed. Valois went to his brother-in-law Heribert IV of Vermandois , Amiens the diocese of Amiens and the Vexin to the king, who shared it with the Duke of Normandy. Bar-sur-Aube and Vitry were from Theobald III. occupied by Blois .

• Hugo I. (* around 1074, † 1126), son of Theobald III. von Blois and Meaux and Adele von Valois, 1093 Count of Troyes, Vitry and Bar-sur-Aube , calls himself Count of Champagne

• Heinrich I (1126–1181), son of Count Theobald II of Blois and Champagne, Count of Vitry and Bar-sur-Aube 1149, Count of Champagne 1152

Burgrave of Vitry

In addition to the Counts of Vitry, there were the Burgraves of Vitry, who came to the County of Rethel by inheritance . Vitry himself then stuck to a younger line.

• Eudes, Lord (Burgrave) von Vitry († 1158) ⚭ Mathilde von Rethel, daughter of Count Hugo I and sister of King Baldwin II of Jerusalem
• Withier, († 1171), their son, Count of Rethel and Lord of Vitry; ⚭ Beatrix, Td Count Gottfried von Namur († 1160)
• Henri, whose younger son († 1191) lord of Vitry; ⚭ Helvis
• Hugues, their son († 1239) lord of Vitry; ⚭ Agnes
• Robert, their son († 1254) lord of Vitry and Sommevesle; ⚭ 1. Jeanne; ⚭ 2nd Guillemine de Dampierre
• Robert, his son († 1275) lord of Vitry; ⚭ Marguerite