This article is a list of the counts of Roucy. In medieval France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

, Roucy

Roucy

Roucy is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France....

 was a county

County

A county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain modern nations. Historically in mainland Europe, the original French term, comté, and its equivalents in other languages denoted a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count A county is a jurisdiction of local government in certain...

 held by a succession of noble families.

First counts

c.950

950

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-967

967

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 : Renaud of Roucy

Renaud of Roucy

Renaud or Ragenold, Count of Roucy . Known as a Viking who became the military chief of Reims after the restoration of Artald of Reims. He'd built a fort at Roucy between late 940s and early 950s and supported young King Lothair of France in the expedition at Aquitaine and the siege of Poitiers...

, count of Roucy

Roucy

Roucy is a commune in the Aisne department in Picardy in northern France....

 and of Reims († 967

967

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)

married Albérade, daughter of Gilbert

Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine

Gilbert was the duke of Lotharingia until 939.The beginning of the reign of Gilbert is not clear. A dux Lotharingiae is mentioned in 910 and this may have been Gilbert...

, duke of Lotharingia, and of Gerberga of Saxony

Gerberga of Saxony

Gerberga of Saxony was a daughter of Henry the Fowler, King of Germany, and Matilda of Ringelheim.-Marriages:She married first Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. They had four children:...

 (she remarried to king Louis IV of France

Louis IV of France

Louis IV , called d'Outremer or Transmarinus , reigned as King of Western Francia from 936 to 954...

)

967

967

Year 967 was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar.-Africa:* The Fatimid general Gawhar al-Siqilli launches a new victorious campaign in the West of the Magrib.- Europe :...

-c.1000 : Gilbert of Roucy, count of Roucy and viscount of Reims († v.1000), son of the former

No document of the era mentions the relationship between Gilbert and his successor Ebles I. It has long been thought that Ebles of Roucy was a son of Gilbert and of a daughter of William III, Duke of Poitiers

William III of Aquitaine

William III , called Towhead from the colour of his hair, was the "Count of the Duchy of Aquitaine" from 959 and Duke of Aquitaine from 962 to his death. He was also the Count of Poitou from 935 and Count of Auvergne from 950...

.

A recent study proposed another theory : Ebles I of Roucy was a son of Ebles of Poitiers (himself the son of William IV, Duke of Poitiers

William IV of Aquitaine

William IV , called Fierebras or Fierebrace , was the Duke of Aquitaine and Count of Poitou from 963 to his retirement in 990.William's father, William III, abdicated to the abbey of Saint-Cyprien in Poitiers and left the government to...

 and of Emma of Blois) and of a daughter of Aubry II, count of Mâcon, and of Ermentrude of Roucy, sister of Gilbert of Roucy.

c.1000-1033 : Ebles I of Roucy

Ebles I of Roucy

Ebles I of Roucy was count of Roucy from 1000 to 1033 and archbishop of Reims from 1021 to 1033. His father was Giselbert, Count of Roucy and Reims....

, count of Roucy and archbishop of Reims

Archbishop of Reims

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in France. Erected as a diocese around 250 by St. Sixtus, the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese around 750...

 (1021–1033)

married Béatrice of Hainaut, daughter of Regnier IV

Reginar IV, Count of Mons

Regnier IV, Count of Mons was the son of Reginar III, Count of Hainaut. Lambert I of Leuven was his brother.-History:His father was Count of Hainaut until 958, but fell in disgrace with Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and lost his County to Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine.He received the County of...

, count of Hainaut and of Hedwig, a daughter of Hugh Capet.

House of Montdidier

House of Montdidier

The House of Montdidier was a medieval French noble house which ruled as count of Montdidier, Dammartin and Roucy. Its earliest definite member of the family was a certain Hilduin, who died before 956 and was known as comte de Montdidier....

• 1033–1063: Hilduin count of Ramerupt and Roucy, son-in-law of the above

married in 1031 to Alix de Roucy (c.1020-1062), daughter of Ebles I

• 1063–1103: Ebles II
  Ebles II of Roucy
  Ebles II , also called Eble or Ebale, was the second Count of Roucy of the House of Montdidier. He was the son and successor of Hilduin IV of Montdidier and Alice , daughter of Ebles I of Roucy...
  
    son of the above

married Sybille de Hauteville, daughter Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia

• 1103–1160: Hugh I  son of the above

married Richildis von Stauffen, daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Swabia

• 1160–1180: Guiscard  son of the above

married Elisabeth de Mareuil, dame de Neufchatel-sur-Aisne

• 1180–1196: Raoul I  son of the above

married Isabelle de Coucy, daughter of Raoul I, Seigneur de Coucy; their only child was a daughter who became a nun

• 1196–1200: John I  brother of above

married Beatrice de Vignory; had no legitimate offspring

• 1200–????: Enguerrand  brother-in-law of Raoul I

House of Pierrepont

• Jean (1205-1251)
• Jean III (1240-1282)
• Jean VI (1260-1304)
• Jean V (1285-1346)