Gervase, count of Rethel

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Hugues, count of Rethel.

This relationship is given by Murray (p. 125).

Mother: Melisende de Montlhéry.

This relationship is given by Murray (p. 124).

Spouse: Elisabeth de Namur.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:757) and by Murray (p. 125).

Relative: Pope Calixtus II.

The pope referred to his kinship with Gervase's brother Baldwin in a letter to him. Calixtus II was the son of Count William of Burgundy (Murray (p. 124).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Millicent de Rethel married (1) Robert de Marmion; married (2) Richard de Camville.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Cawley, Charles. “Gervais de Rethel” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Murray, Alan V. The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem, A Dynastic History 1099-1125 (Prosopographia et Genealogica: 2000).