Guitier, Count of Rethel
Guitier of Rethel, son of Odo, Castellan of Vitry and Matilda, [Countess of Rethel], nephew of Baldwin [II of Jerusalem], was count of Rethel, succeeding his mother. In March 1129, Guitier travelled to the Holy Land, although it is not clear if he participated in the Damascus Crusade that year.
Guitier married Beatrice, daughter of Count Godfrey I of Namur and Erminside of Luxembourg. Guitier and Beatrix had eleven children:
- Beatrice, married King Roger II of Sicily
- John
- Manasses
- Hugh, a monk at Reims
- Manasses IV
- Henry, castellan of Vitry
- Baldwin, lord Chemery
- Albert, archdeacon at Liège
- Simon
- Clemence, married Hugh of Pierrepont
- Daughter, married Geoffroy, Vidame de Châlons.