Roucy (noble family)

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Roucy was a family of the northern French nobility of Norman descent. It first appears with Ragenold , the builder of Roucy Castle , which became the center of County Roucy . The family died out after four generations, the County of Roucy passed to the Counts of Montdidier.

Tribe list

  1. Ragenold , † May 10, 967, 923 attested as a Norman, 944-9477 comes , called comes Rauciacus around 948 , built Roucy Castle around this time, the fortress Mareuil-sur-Ay in 949 , excommunicated in 966 , buried in the Abbey of Saint- Remi in Reims; ⚭ Alverada von Lothringen, daughter of Duke Giselbert von Lothringen ( list of reginaries ) and Gerberga von Sachsen ( Liudolfinger ), also buried in the Abbey of Saint-Remi
    1. Giselbert, † April 19, 991/1000, 974 Count von Roucy, Vice Count of Reims , buried in the Abbey of Saint-Remi; ⚭ NN (perhaps from the Ramnulfiden family )
      1. Ebles (Ebalus) I, † May 11, 1033, 997 Count of Roucy, 1021 Archbishop of Reims , 1023 Count of Reims; ⚭ Beatrix of Hainaut, divorced before 1021, daughter of Reginar IV , Count of Hainaut ( list of reginaries ) and Havide of France ( list of Capetians ), she married Manasses Calva Asina de Ramerupt , 1053 Vidame de Reims ( house Montdidier )
        1. Havide, 1070 attested; ⚭ Godefroid IV. De Florennes , attested in 1066/78 ( Rumigny house )
        2. Adèle, † 1062, heiress to Roucy; ⚭ 1034 Hilduin III, count of Montdidier , Seigneur de Ramerupt, † 1063 ( House of Montdidier )
      2. Liétaud (Letaldus) de Marle  ; ⚭ Mathilde (Mahaut)
        1. Adèle, 1059 Vice Countess of Coucy ; ⚭ I Aubri de Beaumont , attested in 1059/88, † before 1095 ( Beaumont-sur-Oise house ); ⚭ II Enguerrand de Boves , around 1085 Sire, then 1095 Vice Count of Coucy, attested to in 1069/1118 ( House Boves )
      3. Judith; ⚭ Manasses I, Count von Rethel , attested in 1028 ( House Vitri )
    2. Bruno, * probably 956, † 27 (or 31) January 1016 or 29 December 1015, 980 Bishop of Langres
    3. Ermentrude, † March 3, 1002/05; ⚭ I before January 14, 971 Aubry , Count of Mâcon , † after December 17, 981/82 ( House of Mâcon ); ⚭ II around 982 Otto Wilhelm , Count of Mâcon and Count of Nevers , 995 Count of Burgundy , † February 21, 1026 (family list of the House of Burgundy-Ivrea )
    4. Daughter ; ⚭ Fromond II. , 999 Count of Sens , † 1012

literature

  • Père Anselme , Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des anciens barons du royaume ...., par le P. Anselme, ...; continuée par M. Du Fourny, 3rd edition (1726–1733) Volume 8, pp. 861–880 online
  • Detlev Schwennicke: European Family Tables , Volume III.4 (1989) Plate 675A

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