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French nobleman
Raoul I the Red of Clermont
(before 1140 ? killed 15 October 1191) was a French nobleman, and
Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
from 1161 until his death. He was the eldest son of
Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
, and his second wife (Clemencia de Bar?) and thus a younger half-brother of
Margaret of Clermont
.
He was
Constable of France
from 1174 under
Phillip II, King of France
.
During the Jacquerie of 1181, he followed the orders of the regent and led the soldiers to secure the
abbey of Saint-Leu
.
He accompanied Phillip in the
Third Crusade
and died during the
Siege of Acre (1189?91)
.
Raoul married Alix de Breteuil (d. 1196), daughter of Valerian III, Seigneur de Breteuil,
and his wife Haldeburge, lady of Tartigny. Raoul and Alix had:
Upon his death, his son-in-law Louis became Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis.
References
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Sources
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- Baldwin, John W. (1986).
The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the
. University of California Press.
- Dyggve, Holger Petersen (1935). "Personnages historiques figurant dans la poesie lyrique francaise des XII e et XIII e siecles. III: Les dames du ≫Tournoiement≫ de Huon d'Oisi".
Neuphilologische Mitteilungen
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36
(2).
- Power, Daniel (2004).
The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries
. Cambridge University Press.
- Wright, Nicholas (1998).
Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside
. The Boydell Press.
External links
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- Prime, Temple,
Note on the County of Clermont
, Notes Relative to Certain Matters Connected with French History, De Vinne Press, New York, 1903 (available on
Google Books
)
- Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Edition (
archive
)