Agnes de Beaugency

Agnes married Enguerrand II, Sire de Coucy, Marle and Le Fere in 1132. Enguerrand (son of Thomas de Coucy, Sire de Coucy and Marle and Melisende de Crecy) died in 1148; was buried in Nazareth, Holy Land. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Raoul I de Coucy, Sire de Coucy and Marle was born about 1135; died in Nov 1191 in Acre, Holy Land.

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His name is also spelt Réné.

Raoul married Mathilda de Vermandois. Mathilda (daughter of Hugh Magnus de Crépi, Duke of France and Burgundy and Adelaide de Vermandois, Countess de Vermandois and Valois) was born about 1080. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lancelin married Alberga. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also Marquis of Orleans; and Count of Amiens, Chaumont, Paris, Valois, and Vermandois.
• Military: 1096, Holy Land; He was one of the leaders of the First Crusade.

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Death: Sewell gives his death date as 1102.

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Hugh married Adelaide de Vermandois, Countess de Vermandois and Valois after 1067. Adelaide (daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adela de Vexin) was born about 1062; died between 1120 and 1124 in Meulan-en-Yvelines, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• History: He was living in 1033.

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also the Duke of Burgundy and the Count of Paris.
• Crowned: 1031; He was crowned the King of France in 1031.
• Reign: From 1031 to 1060; King of France (House of Capet)

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Birth: Weis (1982) gives his birth as 1005/11.

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Henry married Anne of Kiev on 19 May 1051 in Rheims, Grand Est, France. Anne (daughter of Jaroslaw I Wladimiroswtsch, Grand Prince of Kiev and Ingegard of Sweden, Princess of Sweden) was born in 1036 in Kiev, Ukraine; died in 1075; was buried in Villers Abbey, Villers-la-Ville, Wallonia, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: She was also know as Anna Yaroslavna, Anne of Rus, Anne de Russie, or Agnes de Russie.
• Religion: 1059; In 1059 Henry began feuding with the Church over issues related to Gregorian Reform. During this time, Pope Nicholas II sent Anne a letter counselling her to follow her conscience to right wrongs and intervene against oppressive violence, while also encouraging her to advocate with her husband so that he might govern with moderation. According to Delorme, some historians have interpreted this letter from the Pope as being indicative of Anne's conversion to Roman Catholicism from Eastern Orthodoxy.
• Religion: say 1060; She founded the Abbey of St. Vincent at Senlis.
• Offices Held: 4 Aug 1060; When Henry I died on 4 August 1060, she became the Queen Regnant for her young son, Philip.
• Last Full Review: 25 Jun 2020

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Birth: Sewell (2008) gives her birth date as 1024.

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In 1682, the Jesuit antiquary Claude-Francois Menestrier announced that he had discovered Anne's tomb at the Cistercian Abbey of Villiers. The discovery was subsequently disputed, as Villiers was not built until the thirteenth century, although it's possible Anne's remains had been moved there at some point following her death. Whatever monument may have been there was destroyed in the French Revolution.

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Marriage Date: von Redlich (1941) and Weis (1976) and Sewell give their marriage date as 29 January 1044.

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Henry was nearly twenty years older than Anne.

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He was also the Count of Vexin, and Valois.

Herbert married Adela de Vexin before 1043. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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She was the heiress of the countship of Valois.