Raoul II de Coucy

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Raoul II. De Coucy († February 8, 1250 in al-Mansura ) was a lord of Coucy , Marle and La Fère . He was the eldest son of Enguerrand III. de Coucy († 1243) and his wife Marie de Montmirail.

He was married to Philippa von Dammartin († 1278/81), daughter of Count Simon von Dammartin . He had no children, which is why his brother Enguerrand IV succeeded him.

Raoul took part in the sixth crusade under King Louis IX. (Saint Louis) to Egypt . He belonged to the vanguard under Count Robert von Artois and took part in the storming of the city of al-Mansura in February 1250. In the street battles against the warriors of the Mamelukes Raoul was killed.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ethel Wedgwood (Ed.): The Memoirs of the Lord of Joinville. A new English version. John Murray, London 1906, II, § 10. - The English chronicler Matthäus Paris reported in his Historia Anglorum, however, that Raoul de Coucy died on April 6, 1250 when the king was captured.
  2. ↑ L'Estoire de Eracles empereur Liv. 34, cap. I, in: Recueil des historiens des croisades (1859), Historiens Occidentaux II, p. 438
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SURNAME Raoul II de Coucy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord of Coucy, Marle and La Fère
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH February 8, 1250
Place of death al-Mansura