Enguerrand I, Lord of Coucy

Enguerrand I (c. 1042 – 1116) was the Lord of Coucy from 1086 [1] to 1116.

Bishop Rorico of Amiens established canons at Saint-Acheul in 1085.[2] The foundation charter records donations to Saint-Acheul by Count Enguerran of Boves and his vidame Eustache. It was issued in the first year of Enguerran's rule, and praises his restoration of law and order.[3]

Enguerrand was a man of many scandals. With the help of the Bishop of Laon he divorced his first wife, Adèle de Marle, for adultery. When he married his next wife, Sibyl of Château-Porcien, she was still married to Godfrey of Namur, the Lord of Lorraine [1] who was absent and in a war. Enguerrand and Sybil's first husband became bitter enemies and continued to fight a private war.

Adèle's son Thomas de Marle hated his father and joined the enemies against his father. Nevertheless, when in 1095 the First Crusade started, both he and his son joined in the adventure as part of the army of Emicho. Thomas succeeded Enguerrand upon his death.

Family

Enguerrand was the son of Drogo, Lord of Boves.

Enguerrand married Adèle (Ada) de Marle, the divorced wife of Aubry, Viscount of Coucy, and daughter of Letard de Roucy, Lord of Marle. Letard was, in turn, the son of Gilbert, Count of Reims and Roucy. Enguerrand and Ada had three children:

  • Thomas de Marle (1078–1130/31). Lord of Coucy and Marle, Count of Amiens.[4][5][6]
  • Beatrix de Boves (−1144). Married Adam Châtelain d´Amiens.[7]
  • Robert de Coucy.

Enguerrand is said to have kidnapped Sibyl of Château-Porcien, the wife of Godfrey I, Count of Namur.[8] With the kidnapped Sibyl pregnant with Enguerrand's child, he later married her and they had a daughter, Agnès de Coucy.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Guibert (Abbot of Nogent-sous-Coucy), Paul J. Archambault, A monk's confession: the memoirs of Guibert of Nogent, Penn State Press, 1996
  2. ↑ Ott 2015, p. 237.
  3. ↑ Ott 2015, p. 239.
  4. ↑ Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis 8, MGH SS XIII, p. 253.
  5. ↑ Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1119, MGH SS XXIII, p. 824.
  6. ↑ Annales Lobienses 8, MGH SS XIII, p. 253.
  7. ↑ Noulens (1888), p. 24, citing Malbrancq, J. (1654) De Morinis et morinorum rebus, Tome II, p. 489
  8. ↑ Bourgin, G. (ed.) (1907) Guibert de Nogent, Histoire de sa vie (1053–1124) (Paris) ("Guibert de Nogent"), Liber III, III and X, pp. 135 and 181.

Sources

  • Ott, John S. (2015), Bishops, Authority and Community in Northwestern Europe, c.1050–1150, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-1-107-01781-8, retrieved 2017-09-27
Preceded by
Aubry de Coucy		 Lord of Coucy
1080–1116		 Succeeded by
Thomas de Marle
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