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Raoul Yves DE NESLE
- Preferred Name: Raoul Yves DE NESLE[1] [2]
- Gender: M
- FSID: G8W1-WGP
- Birth: 1052 in Nesle, Somme, Picardie, France at LATI: N9.7567 LONG: E0.9123
- Death: 1121
- Notes:
=== #Générale# Seigneur de Nesle & Falvy. ===
#Générale# Seigneur de Nesle & Falvy.
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Preferred Parents:
Father: Drogon DE NESLE, b. environ 1030 d. 1097
Mother: Hortense DE COUCY, b. 1035 in Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, Aisne, Hauts-de-France, France d. 31 MAR 1093 in Nesle, Somme, Picardie, France
Family 1: Rainurde de Bruges, b. ABT 1078 in Bruges,Flanders,Belgium.
- Raoul DE NESLE II, b. ABT 1108 in Nesle, Hauts-de-France d. BET 1153 AND 1160 in Brugges, French Flanders
Family 2: Unknown de Soissons, b. 1058 d. 1117
- m. ABT 1098 in Brugge, French Flanders
- Raoul DE NESLE II, b. ABT 1108 in Nesle, Hauts-de-France d. BET 1153 AND 1160 in Brugges, French Flanders
Sources:
- Title: House of Nesle
Author: Sources[edit] Dormay, C., Histoire de la ville de Soissons et de ses rois, ducs, comtes et gouverneurs, Soissons, 1664 (available on Google Books) References[edit] ^ "Comtes de Soissons (Nesle)". ^ Baron de Reiffenberg (1848). Godefroid de Bouillon, suite du Chevalier au cygne: avec des recherches sur ... Brussels: Academie Royale de Belgique. p. 142. ^ Baron de Reiffenberg (1848). Godefroid de Bouillon, suite du Chevalier au cygne: avec des recherches sur ... Brussels: Academie Royale de Belgique. p. 142.
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Nesle;
Note: The House of Nesle is a feudal family that spawned a long line of Counts of Soissons and eventually merged with the House of Clermont (see Counts of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis). Nesle is a commune in northern France near Saint-Quentin, Aisne.
The founder of the House of Nesle is Yves de Nesle[1] (d. after 1076) of unknown parentage. Yves had two children by an unknown wife:
Dreux de Nesle (d. after 1098), a crusader who took part in the siege of Nicaea in 1097.
Dreux or Drogon de Nesle (d. after 1098), had one son from an unknown wife:[2]
Raoul I (d. 1125 or after), Seigneur of Nesle.
Raoul I, who some sources identify as the founder of the family, married Raintrude of Soissons, a daughter of William Busac, Count of Eu and Soissons,[3] and they had five children:
Yves II, Count of Soissons
Dreux de Nesle (d. after 1146)
Raoul II de Nesle, Châtelain of Bruges
Renaud de Nesle
Thierry de Nesle (d. before 1183), Thesaurius at Noyon, Archdeacon at Cambrai.
- Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfralaoncou.htm#IvesNesleMRamentrudisSoissons;
Note: RAOUL [I] de Nesle (-1125 or after). The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "comitem Radulfam" as son of "Yvoni de Nigella" & his wife[746]. Seigneur de Nesle. m RAINURDE, daughter of ---. The primary source which confirms her marriage has not been identified. 1115. Raoul [I] & his wife had five children:
i) IVES [II] de Nesle (-Aug 1178). The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Yvonem et Radulfum castellanum de Bruges et Theodericum archidiaconum Cameracensem" as sons of "comitam Radulfam[de Nigella]"[747]. Seigneur de Nesle. Comte de Soissons. "Ivonem comitem Suessionis" issued a charter relating to Epagny, with the consent of "domini Cononis nepotis et coheredis Ivonis comitis", dated to [1161][748]. "Ivo comes Suessionensis et dominus Nigellensis" donated property to Notre-Dame d'Ourscamp, with the consent of “uxor mea Hyolens...nepos meus Cono heres meus et dominus Petrifontis”, by charter dated to [1175][749]. The Chronicon Hanoniense records the death "1178…in introitu mensis Augusti" of "Ivo…Suessonensis comes et Nigelle dominus"[750]. m ([1151/52]) as her first husband, YOLANDE de Hainaut, daughter of BAUDOUIN IV “le Bâtisseur” Comte de Hainaut & his wife Alice de Namur (1131-after Apr 1202). The Chronicon Hanoniense names (in order) "Yolandem, Agnetem, Lauretam" as the daughters of "Alidis comitissa Hanonensis …cum viro Balduino comite", specifying that Yolande married firstly "Ivo senior…comes Suessonis dominusque Nigelle", but was childless by her first husband, and married secondly "Hugonis Sancti Pauli"[751]. "Ivo comes Suessionensis et dominus Nigellensis" donated property to Notre-Dame d'Ourscamp, with the consent of “uxor mea Hyolens...nepos meus Cono heres meus et dominus Petrifontis”, by charter dated to [1175][752]. She married secondly (before 28 Apr 1180) Hugues [IV] Comte de Saint Pol.
ii) DREUX de Nesle (-after 1146). Père Anselme states that Dreux and Raoul [II] consented to the donation of the chapel of Beaulieu made by their brother Ives [II] Comte de Soissons to the abbey of Soissons Saint-Crespin by charter dated 1146[753].
iii) RAOUL [II] de Nesle (-[1153/60]). His parentage is confirmed by the charter dated to [1161] issued by [his brother] "Ivonem comitem Suessionis" relating to Epagny, with the consent of "domini Cononis nepotis et coheredis Ivonis comitis"[754], read together with the Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines which names "comes Cono, Iohannes…et iste qui adhuc vivit comes Radulfus Suessionensis" as sons of "Radulfo castellano [de Bruges]"[755]. Châtelain de Bruges.
- see below.
iv) RENAUD de Nesle . The primary source which confirms his parentage has not been identified. 1115/25.
v) THIERRY de Nesle (-before 1183). The primary source which confirms his parentage has not been identified. Thesaurius at Noyon. Archdeacon at Cambrai.
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