Renaud II, count of Clermont

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 1156 and 1161.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Mathieu (p. 33).

Relationships

Father: Hugues, count of Clermont.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:45), by Moranvillé (p. 179), and by Mathieu (p. 28).

Mother: Marguerite de Ramerupt.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:45), by Moranvillé (p. 179), and by Mathieu (p. 28).

Spouse: Adélaïde, countess of Vermandois.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:45) and by Mathieu (p. 28).

(possible) Spouse: unknown (possibly named Clemence).

This relationship is suggested by Cawley.

Spouse: Clemence de Bar-le-duc. Married about 1135.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (6:45), by Mathieu (p. 28), and by Bur (p. 344).

Children (by Adélaïde):

(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.)

Marguerite married (1) Carl of Denmark (later Charles “the Good”, count of Flanders; married (2) Hugues (III) “Candavène”, count of Saint-Pol.

Raoul.

Children (by Clemence de Bar):

(Cawley suggests that the first four children may have been by a hypothetical second wife of Renaud, also named Clemence.)

Raoul “le Roux” (died 15 October 1191), count of Clermont, married Alix de Breteuil.

Simon married Mathilde de Breteuil.

Étienne.

Mathilde married Aubry II, count of Dammartin.

Guy.

Renaud.

Hugues, bishop of Metz.

Gauthier.

Marguerite married Guy (III) de Senlis.

Constance married Roricon de la Tournelle.

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).

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).

Cawley, Charles. RENAUD (III) de Clermont in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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.

Moranvillé, H. “Origine de la maison de Ramerupt-Roucy” in Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes tome 86 (1925) pp. 168-184.