Hugh I, count of Rethel

-https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_I,_Count_of_Rethel

-https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/champorret.htm#HuguesIRetheldied1118

HUGUES de Rethel, son of MANASSES [III] Comte de Rethel & his wife Judith --- ([1045/55]-28 Dec [1118]). A charter dated 26 Sep 1081 records the restoration of privileges granted by “Manasses Regitestensis comes”, with the consent of “uxore Judiz et venerabili Hugone filio”, to the chapter of Braux[333]. His birth date range is estimated from the probable birth date range of his son Baudouin. He succeeded his father in [1081] as Comte de Rethel. A charter dated 1094 records absolution granted to "comitem Hugonem", with the consent of "filius eius comitis Manasses"[334]. “Hugo comes et Milesindis collateralis” donated mills “super Axonam fluvium ante Rettestum” to Laon Saint-Vincent, with the consent of “filio nostro Manasse”, by charter dated 1097[335]. "Registensium comes Hugo" donated property to "ecclesie…Marie de Noveyo" by charter dated 1117[336]. The necrology of Reims Saint-Rémi records the death "V Kal Jan" of "Hugo comes Regiteste"[337].

m ( before 1075[338] ) MELISENDE de Montlhéry, daughter of GUY "le Grand" Seigneur de Montlhéry & his wife Hodierne de Gometz-La Ferté. The Historia of Monk Aimon names "Milonem de Brayo et Guidonem Rubeum, Comitissam quoque Reiteste, et Bonam-vecinam de Pontibus, Elizabeth etiam uxorem Joscelini de Corteciniaco, insuper dominam de Puisat, et dominam de S. Galerico" as the children of "Guidonem" and his wife[339]. She is named as wife of Hugues Comte de Rethel by William of Tyre, although he does not specify her origin[340]. In a later passage he records that the mother of Joscelin de Courtenay Count of Edessa was the sister of the mother of Baudouin de Bourg, later Baudouin II King of Jerusalem, according to the testimony of her granddaughter concerning the consanguinity between Amaury I King of Jerusalem and his first wife which provided the basis for the annulment of their marriage in 1162[341]. “Hugo comes et Milesindis collateralis” donated mills “super Axonam fluvium ante Rettestum” to Laon Saint-Vincent, with the consent of “filio nostro Manasse”, by charter dated 1097[342].

 Comte Hugues & his wife had [seven] children: 

b. 1030 till 1038

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