Hugh I, Count of Rethel
| Hugh I, Count of Rethel | |
|---|---|
| Spouse(s) | Melisende of Crécy |
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Issue | |
| Noble family | de Rethel |
| Father | Manasses III, Count of Rethel |
| Mother | Judith of Roucy |
| Born |
1040 Bourg |
| Died |
1118 Rethel |
Hugh I, Count of Rethel (1040 in Bourg – 1118 in Rethel) was a son of Count Manasses III of Rethel and his wife Judith of Roucy. He succeeded his father in 1065 as Count of Rethel.
Hugh married Melisende of Crécy, the daughter of Lord Guy I of Montlhéry.[1] They had the following children:
- Manasses (1054-1115[2])
- Gervais (1056-1124), count of Rethel
- Baldwin II (1058-1131), king of Jerusalem (1118-1131), married Morphia of Melitene[1]
- Matilda (b. 1060), married to Odo of Vitry, Count of Rethel
- Hodierna, married Heribrand III of Hierges[3]
- Cecilia of Le Bourcq, married Roger of Salerno, prince-regent of Antioch
- Beatrix (Béatrice) married Leo I, Prince of Armenia
See also the Houses of Montlhéry and Le Puiset.
Notes
- 1 2 The Lords of Le Puiset on the Crusades, John L. La Monte, Speculum, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jan., 1942), 100-101.
- ↑ Charles Ferrers R. Palmer (1875), History of the Baronial Family of Marmion, Lords of the Castle of Tamworth, etc. (hardback), Tamworth: J. Thompson, p. 49
- ↑ Steven Runciman, A History of the Crusades, Vol. II, (Cambridge University Press, 1999), 233.
| Hugh I, Count of Rethel Born: 1040 Died: 1118 | ||
| Preceded by Manasses III |
Count of Rethel 1065-1118 |
Succeeded by Gervais |
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