List of counts of Roucy


This article is a list of the counts of Roucy. In medieval France, Roucy was a county held by a succession of noble families. By the Late Middle Ages, it was one of seven titles that was made a peer within the provincial peerage of the greater County and Province of Champagne up until the French Revolution.

First counts

c.950–967 : Renaud of Roucy, Count of Roucy and of Reims :
967–c.1000 : Gilbert of Roucy, Count of Roucy and Viscount of Reims, son of the former:
c.1000–1033 : Ebles I of Roucy, Count of Roucy and Archbishop of Reims :

[House of Montdidier]

  • 1033–1063: Hilduin, Count of Ramerupt and Roucy, son-in-law of the above,
  • 1063–1103: Ebles II, son of the above,
  • 1103–1160: Hugh I, son of the above,
  • 1160–1180: Guiscard, son of the above,
  • 1180–1196: Raoul I, son of the above,
  • 1196–1200: John I, brother of above,
  • 1200–1205?: Enguerrand, brother-in-law of Raoul I.

    House of Pierrepont

Blazon of arms: Gules a chief indented Or.
  • 1205–1251: John II, grandson of Count Guiscard through his mother :
  • 1251–1271: John III, son of the previous count and of Marie of Dammartin :
  • 1271–1304: John IV, Lord of Pierrepont and Viscount of Mareuil, son of the previous count:
  • 1304–1346: John V, John V abandoned the arms of the House of Pierrepont for the Blue Lion on a field of gold. Ebles I, ancestral Count of Roucy, also displayed the Blue Lion→ Siblings: Béatrice de La Suze, x Amaury III de Craon; and Marie, x Jean II de Châteauvillain:
  • 1346–1364: Robert II, son of the previous count:
  • 1364–1370: Isabelle of Pierrepont, daughter of the previous count, married to Louis of Flandre-Namur, son of John I, without posterity.
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→ Siblings of counts Simon and Robert II: Hugh of Pierrepont, Vidame of Laon by his marriage to Marie de Clacy-et-Thierret / Clacy; Béatrice, x Louis II of Sancerre Marshal of France and Constable of France; Jeanne de Blaison and Chemellier / Chemillé, x the Grand Panetier and Marshal of France Charles I of Montmorency.
  • 1392–1395: Hugh II of Pierrepont, son of the previous count:
→ Siblings: John of Roucy, Bishop of Laon in 1386–1419; Marguerite x 1 ° Gaucher V de Nanteuil-la-Forêt and x 2 ° Robert III de Coucy-Pinon, great-grandson of Marshal Robert above ; Marie, x Jacques d'Enghien-Havré: maternal grandparents of Jean de Dunois.
→ Their daughters Marguerite, Lady of Albert, and Blanche of Roucy-Pierrepont, married respectively: in 1403 Thomas III del Vasto, Marquess of Saluzzo ; and in 1414 Louis I of Bourbon-Vendôme, Count of Vendôme, Grand Master of France.
  • 1395–1415: John VI of Pierrepont, Lord of Château de Montmirail, son of the previous count.
→ His sister Joan, x François d'Albret sire of Ste-Bazeille, first cousin of the Constable Charles I d'Albret, Bernard Ezi IV-V d'Albret.

House of Sarrebruck

  • 1415–1459: Joan of Pierrepont-Roucy, daughter of the previous count, married in 1417 to Robert I of Saarbrücken-Commercy, damoiseau de Commercy-Château-Haut and Lord of Louvois :
  • 1459–1492: John VII of Sarrebruck-Commercy, son of the previous ones, was count of Roucy by the donation made to him by his mother on condition for him to bear the name and arms of Roucy, married to Catherine d'Orléans-Longueville daughter of Dunois above, died without legitimate children.
  • 1492–1504: Robert II of Saarbrücken-Commercy, nephew of the previous one, son of Amé II of Saarbrücken-Commercy and of Guillemette of Luxembourg-Ligny, daughter of Thibault, seigneur de Fiennes; grandson of Joan of Pierrepont x Robert I / III above:
  • 1504–1525: Amé III of Saarbrücken-Commercy, son of the previous one, married in 1520 to Renée de La Marck, daughter of Guillaume d'Aigremont and granddaughter of Sanglier des Ardennes, they had only one son, Robert, died in infancy. When Amé III died, his three sisters shared his inheritance: Philippe / Philippine obtained Commercy-Château-Haut, Einville, Montmirail, Louvois; Catherine: Roucy and Pierrepont; Guillemette : Braine, Pontarcy, La Ferté-Gaucher, Neufchâtel.

    House of Roye

  • 1525–1542: Catherine of Saarbrücken, sister of Amé III of Saarbrücken-Commercy and daughter of Robert II of Saarbrücken-Commercy, married in 1505 to Antoine de Roye.
  • 1542–1551: Charles I of Roye, son of the previous count, married to Madeleine de Mailly, Dame de Conti.
→ Their daughter Éléonore, Dame de Conti, x Louis I, Prince of Conde: hence the following of the Princes of Conde and Conti.

[House of La Rochefoucauld]

  • 1551–1572: Charlotte de Roye, daughter of the previous one and sister of Éléonore de Conti,
  • 1572–1589: Josué de La Rochefoucauld-Roye, † 1589, eldest son of the above, without alliance.
  • 1589–1605: Charles II de La Rochefoucauld-Roye, younger brother of the previous one,
  • 1605–1680: François II-I de La Rochefoucauld-Roye, son of the previous one,
  • 1680–1690: Frédéric-Charles de La Rochefoucauld-Roye, son of the previous count,
  • 1690–1721: François III-II de La Rochefoucauld-Roye, son of the previous one. → Her younger brother Charles, Comte de Blanzac, x 1691 Marie-Henriette d'Aloigny made the Dukes of Estissac, then of Liancourt, then of La Rochefoucauld since 1792; their younger brother Louis made the Marquis of Roye and La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Dukes of Anville, then of La Rochefoucauld in 1762-1792:
  • 1721–1725: François IV-III de La Rochefoucauld-Roye, son of the previous count,

    House of Béthune">House of Bethune">House of Béthune

  • 1725–1784: Marthe-Elisabeth de la Rochefoucauld, Madamoiselle de Roucy, eldest daughter of the previous one:
  • 1784–1789 : Armand-Joseph de Béthune, marquis de Chârost,
He is the last to bear the hereditary title of Count of Roucy. In 1767 he sold his title to a very distant cousin, Jacques Henri Salomon Joseph de Roucy, Lord of Manre, from Hugues de Thosny and du Bois younger brother of Count Robert Guiscard above, known as Count of Roucy, field marshal and colonel of the Queen's cavalry regiment, husband of Marie Perrine de Scépeaux, but died without posterity in 1814.