Hugues, count of Rethel

Events

Date of Birth: unknown,

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 28 December, possibly 1118.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley.

Relationships

Father: Manasses, count of Rethel.

This relationship is given by Murray (p. 173).

Mother: Judith.

This relationship is given by Murray (p. 173), who notes that the genealogies of Foigny and of Alberic of Trois-fontaines agree that she was the sister of Ebalus I, count of Roucy. Murray notes that Jean-Noël Mathieu has argued that this is chronologically impossible and that she was probably a daughter of Eustace I of Boulogne.

Spouse: Melisende de Montlhéry.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (3:664) and by Murray (p. 124).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Manasses de Rethel.

Gervase, count of Rethel, married Elisabeth de Namur.

Baldwin de Rethel (died 21 August 1131 in Jerusalem, buried in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre), became Baldwin II, king of Jerusalem, married Morfica of Melitene in 1101.

Mathilde de Rethel married Eudes, châtelain of Vitry.

Hodierne de Rethel married (1) Heribrand de Hierges, châtelain of Bouillon; married (2) Roger de Hauteville, prince of Antioch. She is said to have had many lovers.

Cecile de Rethel possibly married Lewon of Armenia (later Lewon I, lord of the Mountains).

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. “HUGUES 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).