967–c.1000 : Gilbert of Roucy, Count of Roucy and Viscount of Reims († c.1000), son of the former:
No document of the era mentions the relationship between Gilbert and his successor Ebles I. It has long been thought that Ebles of Roucy was a son of Gilbert and of a daughter of William III, Duke of Poitiers.
A recent study[1] proposed another theory : Ebles I of Roucy was a son of Ebles of Poitiers (himself the son of William IV, Duke of Poitiers and of Emma of Blois) and of a daughter of Aubry II, count of Mâcon, and of Ermentrude of Roucy, sister of Gilbert of Roucy.
1205–1251: John II, grandson of Count Guiscard through his mother (his sister Elisabeth, Viscountess of Mareuil, x Marshal Robert de Coucy-Pinon, without posterity):
married in first marriage to Isabelle of Dreux, daughter of Robert II and Yolande of Coucy (sister of Isabelle / Mélissende wife of Raoul I above) married in second marriage to Joan of Dampierre (?) married in third marriage to Marie of Dammartin († 1279), daughter of Simon, Count of Aumale x Marie, Countess of Ponthieu (niece of Philippe Auguste).
1251–1271: John III, son of the previous count and of Marie of Dammartin (→ a sister of John III, x Jean de Garlande, sire de Possesse):
married to Isabelle de Mercœur daughter of Béraud VIII x Béatrice de Bourbon-Dampierre.
1271–1304: John IV, Lord of Pierrepont and Viscount of Mareuil (Killed 18 August 1304 at the Battle of Mons-en-Pévèle), son of the previous count:
married to Joan of Dreux, Lady of La Suze daughter of Robert IV, Count of Dreux and of Braine and of Beatrice, Countess of Montfort and Lady of La Suze.
1304–1346: John V (Killed 26 August 1346 at the Battle of Crécy), John V abandoned the arms of the House of Pierrepont for the Blue Lion on a field of gold (Blazon: Or a lion azure armed and langued gules). 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:
married to Marguerite de Baumetz (Bommiers, Bomez, Beaumez) Lady of Blaison, Chemillé, Mirebeau and Montfaucon (-en-Berry and not Montfaucon, very likely), probable daughter of Marguerite de Nemours-Villebéon and Thibaud (II) the Younger , son of Robert IV de Bommiers and his 2nd wife Yolande de Mello (to be distinguished from his half-brothers and sister, the children of Robert IV de Bommiers x 1st Mathilde / Mahaut de Déols grand-niece of Raoul VI de Déols-Châteauroux: Marguerite, x 1 ° Louis I of Beaujeu-Montferrand and x 2 ° Henri III of Sully; Robert de Bommiers; Thibaud (Ier) the Elder).
married to Marie d'Enghien, daughter of Gautier II d'Enghien, Knight, Lord of Enghien, Advocate of Tubize.
1364–1370: Isabelle of Pierrepont, daughter of the previous count, married to Louis of Flandre-Namur, son of John I, without posterity.
Isabelle sold Roucy to Louis I of Anjou in 1370, but her uncle Simon of Pierrepont asserted his right of foreclosure and sued the Parlement of Paris to obtain the county. The trial lasted 20 years and was judged in his favor.
→ 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 <John III of Sancerre, and Louis 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.
→ Siblings: John of Roucy, Bishop of Laon in 1386–1419; Marguerite x 1 ° Gaucher V de Nanteuil-la-Forêt (in the Montagne de Reims) and x 2 ° Robert III de Coucy-Pinon, great-grandson of Marshal Robert above (by another x that with Elisabeth of Roucy, Viscountess of Mareuil); Marie, x Jacques d'Enghien-Havré: maternal grandparents of Jean de Dunois.
→ His sister Joan, x François d'Albret sire of Ste-Bazeille († 1435), first cousin of the Constable Charles I d'Albret, Bernard Ezi IV-V d'Albret.
House of Sarrebruck
Sarrebruck : d'azur semé de croisettes recroisetés au pied fiché d'or au lion d'argent, armé, lampassé et couronné d'or brochant sur le tout.[2]
1415–1459: Joan of Pierrepont-Roucy, daughter of the previous count, married in 1417 to Robert I of Saarbrücken-Commercy (Robert III), damoiseau de Commercy-Château-Haut and Lord of Louvois († 1460):
Only daughter, Joan of Pierrepont brought the counties of Roucy and Braine to her husband Robert of Saarbrücken-Commercy → They had as children John VII of Saarbrücken-Commercy; Amé II of Saarbrücken-Commercy; Marie, Dame de Bailleul, x Jean II de Melun d'Antoing, d'Épinoy, Lord of Ghent; and Jeanne, x Christophe de Barbençon-Jeumont, Lord of Cany.
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 (→ but leaving two natural children: Louis, seigneur de Sissonne and Marguerite).
1492–1504: Robert II of Saarbrücken-Commercy (Robert IV), 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:
married to Marie de Chaumont d'Amboise, Dame de Ricey, daughter of Charles I and niece of Cardinal d'Amboise. → They have a son, Amé III from Saarbrücken-Commercy; and three daughters: Philippe (de Commercy and Montmirail; wife of Charles de Silly, Lord of Rochefort, Auneau, and La Roche-Guyon); Catherine (de Roucy; wife Antoine de Roye); and Guillemette (de Braine; wife of Robert III de La Marck, duc de Bouillon.
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 (x Charles de Silly) obtained Commercy-Château-Haut, Einville, Montmirail, Louvois; Catherine: Roucy and Pierrepont; Guillemette (x Robert III de La Marck): 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 († 1515).
1542–1551: Charles I of Roye, son of the previous count, married to Madeleine de Mailly, Dame de Conti.
de Roye de la Rochefoucault: Ecartelé aux 1 et 4 de gueules à la bande d'argent ; aux 2 et 3 burelé d'argent et d'azur de 10 pièces à trois chevrons de gueules brochant sur le tour, le premier écimé ; sur le tout d'or au lion d'azur (armé et lampassé de gueules.)
1551–1572: Charlotte de Roye (1537-1572), daughter of the previous one and sister of Éléonore de Conti,
married in 1557 to François III, Count of La Rochefoucauld (1521-1572) (Francis I, Count of Roucy; from a 1 ° x with Silvia Pic de La Mirandole, from whom descend Francis IV and the following of the counts then dukes of La Rochefoucauld until 1762).
1572–1589: Josué de La Rochefoucauld-Roye, † 1589, eldest son of the above, without alliance.
1589–1605: Charles II de La Rochefoucauld-Roye (1560-1605), younger brother of the previous one,
1680–1690: Frédéric-Charles de La Rochefoucauld-Roye (around 1633–1690), son of the previous count,
married in 1656 to his cousin Elisabeth de Durfort de Duras, granddaughter of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, daughter of Guy-Aldonce I and sister of Jacques Henri de Durfort,
1690–1721: François III-II de La Rochefoucauld-Roye (1660-1721), son of the previous one. → Her younger brother Charles, Comte de Blanzac (1665-1732), x 1691 Marie-Henriette d'Aloigny made the Dukes of Estissac, then of Liancourt, then of La Rochefoucauld since 1792; their younger brother Louis (1672-1751) made the Marquis of Roye and La Ferté-sous-Jouarre, Dukes of Anville, then of La Rochefoucauld in 1762-1792:
married in 1689 to Catherine-Françoise d'Arpajon (1670-1716), daughter of Duke Louis and Catherine-Henriette d'Harcourt de Beuvron, heir to the duchy-peerage of Arpajon since 1672.
1721–1725: François IV-III de La Rochefoucauld-Roye (1689-1725), son of the previous count,
married in 1711 to Marguerite-Elisabeth Huguet de Sémonville, † 1735 → their youngest daughter Françoise-Pauline, Mlle de Roye (1723- guillotined in 1793/1794), x 1740 Marshal Louis-Antoine, Duke of Gontaut-Biron (1701-1788).
1725–1784: Marthe-Elisabeth de la Rochefoucauld, Madamoiselle de Roucy (1720-1784), eldest daughter of the previous one:
married in 1737 to François Joseph de Béthune (1719- † 1739) 17, marquis d'Ancenis.
1784–1789 : Armand-Joseph de Béthune (1738 † 1800), marquis de Chârost,
married 1 ° 1760 to Louise-Suzanne Edmée Martel lady of Fontaine-Martel and Fontaine-Bolbec (in Bolbec) → their second son Armand-Louis François Edmé (1770- guillotined in April 1794); and 2 ° 1783 to Henriette Adélaïde du Bouchet de Sourches below, without posterity.
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 (1747-1814), Lord of Manre (his family also owned Termes and Marvaux in the vicinity), 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.
References
^Jean-Noël Mathieu, "La Succession au comté de Roucy aux environs de l'an mil",
in Onomastique et Parenté dans l'Occident médiéval, under the direction of Christian Settipani and Katharine S. B. Keats-Rohan, 2000
