Melisende Coucy

• Preferred Name: Melisende Coucy^{[1] [2]}
  
• Gender: F
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Melisende-de-Gournay/4594928567140034091?through=6000000002603390248
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Countess of Gournay
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Countess of Norfolk
  
• Birth: ABT 1120 in Champagne, France at LATI: N8.764 LONG: E0.56
  
• Burial: ABT 1190 in Boves, Somme, Picardie, France at LATI: N9.8461 LONG: E0.3917
  
• Death: AFT 1181 in Flegg, Norfolk, England at LATI: N2.6763 LONG: E0.6404
  
• FSID: LY62-B1T
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
  “HUGH (or HUGUES) DE GOURNAY, seigneur of Gournay-en-Brie and Gaillefontaine, and lord of Houghton, Bedfordshire, Bledlow and Wendover, Buckinghamshire, Caister, Norfolk, Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, etc., son and heir, born about 1091 (of full age in 1112). During his minority, be was raised by King Henry I of England and his lands were administered by Drew de Mouchy his step-father. He married (1st) BEATRICE (or BEATRIX) DE VERMANDOIS, daughter of Hugh le Grand, Crépy, by Adele, daughter and heiress of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Valois [see VERMANDOIS 4 for her ancestry]. They had one son, Hugh (died young). He joined Stephen, Count of Aumale, and others in 1118, in an attempt to place William Clito, son of Robert, Duke of Normandy, on the throne. He seised the castle of Plesssis and ravaged Norman terrritory. King Henry I crushed the revolt at Noyon in 1119, after which he submitted and was pardoned. He appears to have joined King Stephen at the Siege of Shrewsbury in 1138, for which he later rewarded with the manors of Wendover, Buckinghamshire and Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire. His wife, Beatrice, was living in 1144. About 1144 he and his son, Hugh, gave to the church of S. Leu for the soul of Beatrice his wife a rent at Cauvigriy. About 1144 he gave to the church of St. Leu the house of Roger the priest and his sister at Cauvigny. In the period, 1147-55, he witnessed a charter for his nephew, Roger de Mowbray. In 1147 he accompanied King Louis VII of France to the Holy Land. This crusade was unsuccessful and returned in 1149. He married (2nd) before 1162 (date of charter) MILICENT (or MELISENDE) DE COUCY, daughter of Thomas de Coucy (or de Marie), seigneur of Coucy, Marie, de la Fere and Boves, by his 2nd wife, Melisende, daughter and heiress of Guy de Crecy, Châtelain of la Ferte. They had two sons, Gerard and Hugh, and one daughter, Aidieve (wife of Nicholas de Stuteville, of Kimberley, Norfolk). During the revolt of Henry the Young King, Hugh and his son, Hugh, were captured by the rebels, who burned Gournay and extorted ransomes from its burgesses. Hugh's servants in turn plundered royal estates in Suffolk, and his manors of Bledlow and Houghton Regis were taken into royal hands in reprisal. He and his 2nd wife were benefactors of the Abbey of Bec. They founded the Abbey of Gaillefontaine in the period, 1144 64. HUGH DE GOURNAY died in 1181, said to be "very old." His wife, Milicent, survived him.
  Moreri le Grand Dictionnaire Historique 1(1725): 310. Du Plessis Histoire de la Ville & des Seigneurs de Coucy (1728): 31, 35, 46. Placitoram in Domo Capitalari Westmonasteriensi Asservatorum Abbrevatio (1811): 79. La Mairie Supp. aux Recherches historiques sur la Ville de Gournay (1844): 7-42. Lipscomb Hist. & Antiqs. of Buckingham 2 (1847): 468. Gurney Rec. of the House of Gournay 1 (1848): 22, 84-127, 754, 763, 779. Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 13 (1869): 695 (Ex Chronico Alberici Trium-fontium Monachi: "Idem quoque Thomas de Cocy de secunda uxore domina de Bovis genuit Ingelrannum superius nominatum, pattrem Radulphi de Marla, et Robertum Bovensem, virum crudelem, et illam quae data est Hugoni de Gornaio."). Delisle Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France 14 (1877): 4 (Genealogia Regum Francorum Tertiae Stirpis: "Letaldus de Marla habuit filiam nomine Adam. Ada filium nomine Thomam de Marla, qui duxit sororem Balduini Comitis Hainoensis; quæ peperit ei duas filias Prædictus Thomas de Marla, dimissa sorore Comitis Balduini, jonxit sibi uxorem cujusdam militis de terra Ambianensi, nomine Milesdendem, quæ peperit ci Lngerlrannum de Marla, et Robertum Bovensem, et filiam nomine matris appellatam, quae maritum habuit Hugonen de Gornai, dominum ejusdem Monamenta Germaniae Histotica SS XIII (1881): 251-256: (Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis: “Predicta Thomas de Marla, dimissa sorore comitis Balduini, iunxit sibi uxorem cuiusdam militis de terra Ambianensi nomine Milesendem, que peperit ei Ingelrannum de Marla et Robertum Bovensem et filiam nomine matris appellatam, que maritum habuit Hugonem de Gornai dominum eiusdein loci."). Müller La Prieuré de Saint-Leu d’Esserent: Cartulaire (1080-1538) (1901): 48-49 (charter of Hugues de Gournay dated c.1144), 49 (charter of Hugues de Goumay dated c.1144). Desc. Catalogue of Ancient Deeds 6 (1915): 279. Delisle & Berger Actes de Henry II 1 (1916): 471-472 (confirmation charter of King Henry Il re. the dower of Milicent, widow of Hugues de Gournay). Bedfordshire Hist. Rec. Soc. 7 (1922): 153-157; 19 (1937): charts fol. pg. 99. Oxfordshire Rec. Soc. 7 (1925): 7-15. C.R.R. 6 (1932): 272-273. Jenkins Cartulary of Missenden Abbey 1(1938): 164-165, 188; 3 (1962): 13, 15, 16. Early Yorkshire Charters 8 (1949): 6-7. Chibnall Select Docs. of the English Lands of the Abbey of Bec (Camden 3rd Ser. 73) (1951): 7-8, 16. Clay Early Yorkshire Charters 9 (1952): 42, 45-47. Paget (1957), 266: 1-4 (sub Gurnay). Chaurand Thomas de Mark, Sire de Coucy (1963). Greenway Charters of the Honour of Mowbray, 1107-1191 (1972): 142 (charter dated 1147/55 issued by Roger de Mowbray witnessed by "Hugone de Gurnai avunculo meo [my uncle]"). Barthelemy Les Deux Ages de la Seigneurie Banale (1984): 56-57 (Coucy ped.) Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 3(1) (1989): 55 (sub Vermandois). Winter Descendants of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): XII.21, XII.349. Power Norman Frontier in the 12th & Early 13th Cents. (2004): 355-357. Gobineau Histoire d'Ottar Jarl et de sa Descendance (2006).”

1. Aidieve Gournay, b. AFT 1162 in Caister, Norfolk, England    
2. Hugh de Gournay - Seigneur de Gournay, b. 1148 in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom     d. 9 OCT 1214 in Ashby de la Zouch, Leicestershire, England
3. Hugues De Gournay V, b. ABT 1163 in Gournay-en-Bray, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France     d. 25 OCT 1214 in Holy Land, Jerusalem

1. Title: -
   Page: Adam, Adeleme and Guy, Chatelains d’Amiens, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfraamp.htm#GuyAmiensdied1146 [See document in the Memories section]
   
2. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/142857848;
   Note: Enguerrand I, Seigneur de Coucy, and Thomas de Coucy, Seigneur de Coucy et de Marle and Comte d’Amiens, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfraamp.htm#ThomasICoucydied1130 [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Enguerrand I, Seigneur de Coucy, and Thomas de Coucy, Seigneur de Coucy et de Marle and Comte d’Amiens, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfraamp.htm#ThomasICoucydied1130 [See document in the Memories section]