Hugues, count of Dammartin

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 1095.

Place of Death: probably Saint-Leu.

The date is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 431) and by Mathieu (p. 24).

Place of Burial: the priory of Saint-Leu.

Mathieu (p. 24) states that Hugues was buried at the priory of Saint-Leu, after finishing his days there as a monk.

Relationships

Father: Manassès, count of Dammartin.

Mathieu, for chronological reasons, makes Hugues the son of Manassès’s son Eudes, while noting, “L’opinion admise est que le comte Hugues qui lui [i.e. Eudes] succéda était son frère,” and that neither a marriage nor children of Eudes are recorded. Peter Stewart, in a post to soc.genealogy.medieval, argued that the chronology was not long enough to make it improbable that Hugues was Eudes’s brother rather than his son.

Mother: Constance, possibly daughter of Robert II, king of France.

Spouse: Rohais, possibly daughter of Richard fitz Gilbert de Clare.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (p. 431), who notes a suggestion of Mathieu that she was the daughter of Richard de Clare. Bur (p 342) shows her as a brother of Gilbert, count of Clare.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Mathieu (p. 24) notes that it is not clear that Rohais was the mother of Pierre, Basilia, Adéläide, or Eustachia.)

Pierre, count of Dammartin (died 1106)

Odo, lord of Norton (died by 1129/30) married Basilia.

Basilia

Adélaïde married Lancelin II de Beauvais.

Eustachia

References

Bur, Michel. “De quelques champenois dans l’entourage français des rois d’Angleterre aux XIe et XIIe siècles” in Family Trees and the Roots of Politics (K.S.B. Keats Rohan ed.) (The Boydell Press, 1997).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Mathieu, Jean-Noël. “Recherches sur les premiers comtes de Dammartin” in Paris et Ile-de-France mémoires, tome 47, (Fédération de sociétés historiques et archéologiques de Paris et de l’Ile-de-France: Paris, 1996) pp. 1-59.