Yves II "le Vieux" de Nesle, comte de Soissons

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Yves II le Vieux of Nesle (Ives, Ivo) (d. 1178), son of Raoul I, Seigneur of Nesle, and his wife Rainurde (Ermentrude) of Eu-Soissons. Seigneur of Nesle, Count of Soissons. Upon the death of Renaud III, Count of Soissons, Yves was chosen as the next count by the Bishop of Soissons,[1] Joscelin de Vierzi.[2]

Following the preaching of Bernard of Clairvaux at Vézelay in 1146, Yves joined Louis VII and a host of French nobles in the Second Crusade.[3] He was part of the Crusade Concilium in Acre in June 1148 and was one of many suitors for Constance of Antioch following her husband's death in 1149.[4]

Yves married Yolande, a daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut, and his wife Alice of Namur.[5] They had no children.

Upon the death of Yves, his nephew Conon became Count of Soissons.[6]

Sources

• Bisson, Thomas N., ed. (1995). Cultures of Power: Lordship, Status, and Process in Twelfth-Century Europe. University Pennsylvania Press.
• Bradbury, Jim (2007). The Capetians: Kings of France 987-1328. Hambledon Continuum.
• Gislebertus of Mons (2005). Chronicle of Hainaut. Translated by Napran, Laura. The Boydell Press.
• Hodgson, Natasha R. (2007). Women, Crusading and the Holy Land in Historical Narrative. The Boydell Press.
• Slack, Corliss Konwiser (2001). Crusade Charters, 1138-1270. Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

References

1. Bisson 1995, p. 21.
2. Slack 2001, p. 75.
3. Bradbury 2007, p. 154.
4. Hodgson 2007, p. 221.
5. Gislebertus of Mons 2005, p. 40.
6. Gislebertus of Mons 2005, p. 35.

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First husband of Yolande de Hainaut. They had no (surviving) children.

He inherited the title of Comte de Soissons from his father, via his paternal grandmother.

IVES [II] de Nesle (-Aug 1178). The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Yvonem et Radulfum castellanum de Bruges et Theodericum archidiaconum Cameracensem" as sons of "comitam Radulfam[de Nigella]"[624]. Seigneur de Nesle. Comte de Soissons. "Ivonem comitem Suessionis" issued a charter relating to Epagny, with the consent of "domini Cononis nepotis et coheredis Ivonis comitis", dated to [1161][625]. "Ivo comes Suessionensis et dominus Nigellensis" donated property to Notre-Dame d'Ourscamp, with the consent of “uxor mea Hyolens...nepos meus Cono heres meus et dominus Petrifontis”, by charter dated to [1175][626]. The Chronicon Hanoniense records the death "1178…in introitu mensis Augusti" of "Ivo…Suessonensis comes et Nigelle dominus"[627]. m ([1151/52]%29 as her first husband, YOLANDE de Hainaut, daughter of BAUDOUIN IV “le Bâtisseur” Comte de Hainaut & his wife Alice de Namur (1131-after Apr 1202). The Chronicon Hanoniense names (in order) "Yolandem, Agnetem, Lauretam" as the daughters of "Alidis comitissa Hanonensis …cum viro Balduino comite", specifying that Yolande married firstly "Ivo senior…comes Suessonis dominusque Nigelle", but was childless by her first husband, and married secondly "Hugonis Sancti Pauli"[628]. "Ivo comes Suessionensis et dominus Nigellensis" donated property to Notre-Dame d'Ourscamp, with the consent of “uxor mea Hyolens...nepos meus Cono heres meus et dominus Petrifontis”, by charter dated to [1175][629]. She married secondly (before 28 Apr 1180) Hugues [IV] Comte de Saint Pol. http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/nfralaoncou.htm#_Toc480785791