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Gilles de Chimay

Birthdate:
Death: after 1172
Immediate Family:

Son of Alard IV de Chimay and Ida de Coucy
Husband of Adelheid de Rosoy
Half brother of Enguerrand d'Orbais and Godefroid d'Orbais, seigneur de Sombreffe

Managed by: Livio Scremin
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About Gilles de Chimay

-https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HAINAUT.htm#GillesChimaydied1172

a) GILLES de Chimay (-after 1172). The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Gilonem et Hadwidem" as children of "Alardo de Cimay" & his wife[1460]. The [1205] Chronicle of Liessies abbey records that Baudouin IV Comte de Hainaut was guardian of “trois Gillion, enfants nobles, dont les pères étaient morts...de Chimay...de Bousignies [Bouchain] et...de Trazegnies”, noting that the last named was claimed by “Gautier d’Avesnes avec lequel il était plus proche parent qu’avec le comte”, and in another passage that Gilles [de Trazegnies] “combattit vaillamment contre Ebale de Gosselies pour venger la mort de son père qui avait été tué” [see above the record of the death in battle of the predecessor of Gilles [I]][1461]. “...Ide de Cimai...Gilii de Cimai...” subscribed the charter dated 1161 under which the monks of Saint-Sépulcre transferred “de Villerel...molendini” to Baudouin IV Comte de Hainaut[1462]. The Chronicon Hanoniense records "...Egidius de Cymaco..." among the knights who served Baudouin V Comte de Hainaut in the war with “Henricus comes Namurcensis et Lusceleborch”, dated to 1172[1463].

m ALIDE de Rozoy, daughter of CLAREMBAUD Seigneur de Rozoy & his wife Elisabeth de Namur. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Raynaldum…Rogerum..episcopus Laudunensis…et sorores eius…Aeliz de Cimeco, altera Alfelisia..." as the children of "Clarembaldus de Roseto" and his wife "Elizabeth filiam comitis Godefridi Namucensis"[1464]. The Chronicon Hanoniense names "Raynaldum…[et] Rogerum Laundunensem episcopum et filias Alidem…Egidio de Cymaco maritatem et Annchelisam viro nobili in comitatu Namurcensi maritatam Philippo…de Altaripa" as children of "domino Rogero de Roseto" and his Namur wife, specifying that Roger married "Iuliana filia Nicholay de Ruminio" by whom he was father of "Rogerum"[1465].

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