Boves (noble family)

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Boves (sometimes called from Coucy ) were a family of the northern French nobility who first appeared in the second half of the 11th century.

history

It is named after its ancestral home in Boves, southeast of Amiens . Enguerrand I. de Boves already owned Coucy Castle and the La Fère lordship and became Count of Amiens in 1085 .

The county was taken from his son Thomas de Marle in 1118 , after which the family did not acquire a title of nobility of this or higher level. Nevertheless, Enguerrand III. de Coucy one of the most powerful nobles in France, who was able to develop Coucy Castle into one of the largest medieval castle complexes in Europe, the son-in-law of Henry the Lion and the father-in-law of the Scottish King Alexander II. However, the heyday of the family ended with his children.

Tribe list

  1. Dreux (Drogo), Seigneur de Boves 1069
    1. Enguerrand I , attested in 1069/1118, Seigneur de Boves, de Coucy et de la Fère, 1085 Count of Amiens, Vogt of Boves; ⚭ I Ade de Roucy, daughter of Létard, Seigneur de Marle ( House of Roucy ); ⚭ II Sibylle de Porcéan , daughter of Roger
      1. (I) Thomas de Marle , attested 1096/1130, † before 1131, Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle, de la Fère et de Boves, Count of Amiens; ⚭ I Ida von Hennegau, † after 1101, daughter of Baldwin II , Count of Hainaut ( House of Flanders ); ⚭ NN de Montaigu, divorced; ⚭ III Mélisende de Crécy, † after 1147, daughter of Guy
        1. (I) Ida; ⚭ I Alard de Chimay; ⚭ II Bernard d'Orbais
        2. (I) Beatrix; ⚭ Évrard III. de Breteuil, attested in 1147 ( Le Puiset house )
        3. (III) Enguerrand II. , Attested 1131/47, Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle et de la Fère; ⚭ 1132 Agnès de Boisgency, daughter of René and Mahaut de Vermandois
          1. Raoul I. de Coucy , X 1191 at the siege of Acre , Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle, de la Fère, de Crécy, de Vervins etc .; ⚭ I before 1164 Agnes von Hennegau, † 1168/73, daughter of Baldwin IV. , Count of Hainaut ( House of Flanders ); ⚭ II after 1173 Alix de Dreux, † after 1217, daughter of Robert I. Count von Dreux ( House of France-Dreux )
            1. (I) Yolande, † March 18, 1222; ⚭ 1184 Robert II , Count of Dreux , † December 28, 1218 ( House of France-Dreux )
            2. (I) Isabeau; ⚭ I Raoul, Count of Roucy , † 1196 ( House of Montdidier ); ⚭ II Henri III, Count of Grandpré , † 1211
            3. (I) Ade; ⚭ Dietrich von Beveren
            4. (II) Enguerrand III. de Coucy , † around 1242, Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle, de la Fère et de Crécy, 1202 Count of Roucy , 1205 Count of Perche ; ⚭ I at the end of 1201 Beatrix de Vignory , widow of Jean I, Count de Roucy ( House of Montdidier ); ⚭ II 1204 Mathilde von Sachsen, * 1172, † 1209, widow of Geoffroy III. , Count of Perche ( House of Châteaudun ), daughter of Heinrich III. the lion , Duke of Saxony ( list of the Welfs ); ⚭ III Marie de Montmirail, heiress of Montmirail , Oisy , Crèvecoeur , Condé-en-Brie , Vice-County Meaux and Castle County Cambrai , † around 1267, daughter of Jean I and Helvide de Dampierre
              1. (III) Raoul II. , X al-Mansura 1250, Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle et de la Fère; ⚭ Philippe de Dammartin, † April 14, 1277/81 daughter of Simon de Dammartin , Count von Ponthieu ( House Mello ), and Marie Countess von Ponthieu, widow of Raoul II. D'Issoudun , Count von Eu ( House Lusignan ), she married Otto II , Count von Geldern ( House of Wassenberg ) in third marriage in 1253
                1. Enguerrand, † before 1250
              2. Enguerrand IV. , † 1310, Vice Count of Meaux, Seigneur de Montmirail et de Crèvecoeur, followed in 1250 in Coucy, Marle and la Fère; ⚭ I before 1262 Margarete von Geldern, † before 1286, daughter of Count Otto II. ( House Wassenberg ), ⚭ II 1288 Johanna von Flandern, † October 15, 1333, daughter of Robert III. , called Robert de Béthune ( House Dampierre ), as widow abbess of Le Sauvoir near Laon
              3. Jean, † shortly after 1242
              4. Marie ; ⚭ I May 15, 1239 Alexander II , King of Scotland , † 1249 ( House of Dunkeld ); ⚭ II Jean de Brienne d'Acre ( Brienne House )
              5. Alix; ⚭ Arnold III, Count of Guînes , † after 1282 ( House of Gent )
            5. Thomas, † 1252/53, Seigneur de Vervins 1187; ⚭ after 1190 Mahaut de Rethel, to Trie-le-Bardoul, † after 1255, daughter of Hugues, Count of Rethel , and Félicité de Broyes, heiress of Beaufort ( House Vitri )
              1. Thomas de Coucy, † before 1276, Seigneur de Vervins, de Fontaines etc .; ⚭ I Elisabeth von Looz, daughter of Arnold III, Count von Looz ; ⚭ II Marguerite de Picquigny , daughter of Gérard, Vidame d'Amiens
                1. (II) Thomas, X July 11, 1302 in the Battle of Spurs , Seigneur de Vervins; ⚭ Isabelle d'Enghien, daughter of Gerhard I, called von Zottegem ( House Enghien )
                  1. Thomas
                  2. Jean, Seigneur de Vervins
                2. (II) Jean; ⚭ Catherine de Saint-Leu, daughter of Renaud
                  1. Enguerrand, † small
                  2. Guy, Seigneur de Beaumont
                  3. Thomas, Seigneur de Saint-Leu
                3. (II) Marie, called de Verdun, † 1281 before July; ⚭ Gaucher de Thorotte, Châtelain de Noyon , Seigneur de Thourotte et d ' Honnecourt , † before March 1293 ( House Thorotte )
              2. Yolande; ⚭ Arnaud de Mortagne, Burgrave of Tournai 1227/65
              3. Félicité, † 1307; ⚭ Baudouin d'Avesnes , † April 10, 1295
              4. Agnès, † 1277; ⚭ Gobert VII d'Aspremont, † before 1281
            6. Robert, † after 1234, follows in 1190, Seigneur de Pinon ; ⚭ I Elisabeth de Pierrepont, attested in 1213, † after 1215, daughter of Robert, Seigneur de Pierrepont ( House of Pierrepont ) and Eustachie de Roucy ( House of Roucy ); ⚭ II before 1219 Godde, widow of NN de Préaux, attested in 1234 - descendants † 1377
            7. Agnès, attested in 1214; ⚭ after 1190 Gilles de Baumetz, Châtelain de Bapaume 1214
            8. Raoul, 1187/90 spiritual
          2. Enguerrand, attested in 1142, † around 1174
        4. (III) Robert , † July 19, 1191, Seigneur de Boves; ⚭ Beatrix de Saint-Pol, † after 1192, daughter of Hugues III. Count of Saint-Pol ( House of Candavene )
          1. Enguerrand II , 1191/1222 attested, † before 1224, Seigneur de Boves; ⚭ before 1192 Ade de Nesle, † between December 1252 and December 1254, daughter of Jean I, Burgrave of Bruges ( House Nesle )
            1. Robert, attested in 1191, † 1248/49, Seigneur de Boves, knight; ⚭ Helvide d'Autrêches, attested in 1238/62, daughter of Guillaume de Nanteuil-la-Fosse , Seigneur d ' Autrêches , she married Renaud de la Tournelle for the second time
              1. ? Mabile de Boves, attested in 1292
            2. Elisabeth, † after July 1263, followed in 1240 in Boves and Château-Porcien ; ⚭ before May 1214 Nicolas V. de Rumigny, † 1257
          2. Robert, Seigneur de Fouencamps 1192, † April 1226 / July 1228; ⚭ Marie, attested in 1201
            1. Robert, attested 1201/39, † before February 1245, knight; ⚭ Marie, attested in 1239
            2. Thomas, attested in 1201
            3. Hellin, attested in 1201
            4. Beatrix, attested in 1202
          3. Hugues de Boves , 1192 knight
          4. Thomas, 1200/41 attested, † before 1244, 1200 canon in Amiens , 1225 cathedral provost in Amiens
        5. (III) daughter (Melissinde); ⚭ I Adelelme; ⚭ II Hugues de Gournay
    2. Robert de Boves, 1069/79 attested
    3. Anseau de Boves, attested in 1069

Individual evidence

  1. ^ To fr: Jean de Montmirail Connétable of France

literature