Count of Eu
Lord of Hastings
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Henri was a minor at his father’s death in 1170. (Complete Peerage 5:158)
Date of Death: 16 or 17 March 1183.
The date is given by the Complete Peerage (5:159).
Place of Burial: the Abbey of Foucarmont.
The place is given by the Complete Peerage (5:159).
Relationships
Father: John, count of Eu (died 1170).
This relationship is given in the Complete Peerage (5:158), by Keats-Rohan (p. 227), and by Power.
Mother: Alice (died in or before 1188), daughter of William d’Aubigny, earl of Arundel.
This relationship is given by Power. Alice is given as John’s wife in the Complete Peerage (5:157).
Spouse: Matilda (died in or after 1212), daughter of Hamelin de Warenne, earl of Surrey.
This relationship is given in the Complete Peerage (5:159) and by Power.
Children:
Raoul d’Eu (died 1 May 1186).
Guy d’Eu (died 1185).
Alice, countess of Eu (died May 1246) married Raoul de Lusignan.
References
Cawley, Charles. “Henri d'Eu” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59) Volume 5.
Johns, Susan M. “Alice, suo jure countess of Eu (d. 1246)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Keefe, Thomas K. “Warenne, Hamelin de, earl of Surrey (d. 1202)” in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. (Oxford University Press, 2004).
Power, Daniel. The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).