This article is a list of the counts of Roucy. In medieval France, Roucy was a county held by a succession of noble families. By the Late Middle Ages, it was one of seven titles that was made a peer within the provincial peerage of the greater County and Province of Champagne up until the French Revolution.
c.950–967 : Renaud of Roucy, Count of Roucy and of Reims († 967):
married Albérade, daughter of Gilbert, Duke of Lotharingia, and of Gerberga of Saxony (she remarried to king Louis IV of France).
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.
c.1000–1033 : Ebles I of Roucy, Count of Roucy and Archbishop of Reims (1021–1033):
married Béatrice of Hainaut, daughter of Regnier IV, Count of Hainaut and of Hedwig, a daughter of Hugh Capet.
married in 1031 to Alix de Roucy (c.1020-1062), daughter of Ebles I.
married Sybille de Hauteville, daughter Robert Guiscard, Duke of Apulia.
married Richildis von Stauffen, daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Swabia.
married Elisabeth de Mareuil, dame de Neufchatel-sur-Aisne.
married Isabelle de Coucy, daughter of Raoul I, Seigneur de Coucy; their only child was a daughter who became a nun.
married Beatrice de Vignory; had no legitimate offspring.
Blazon of arms: Gules a chief indented Or.
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).
married to Isabelle de Mercœur daughter of Béraud VIII x Béatrice de Bourbon-Dampierre.
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.
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.
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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.
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→ 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
married to Marie of the House of Châtillon, daughter of Hugues de Pont-Arcy / Pontarci and granddaughter of the Constable of France Gaucher V de Châtillon.
→ 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.
married to Blanche de Coucy- Lady of Encre, Bailleul-en-Vimeu, La Ferté-Gaucher and Montmirel, granddaughter of William of Coucy.→ Their daughters Marguerite, Lady of Albert, and Blanche of Roucy-Pierrepont, married respectively: in 1403 Thomas III del Vasto, Marquess of Saluzzo (hence Giovanna, Dame d'Encre, wife of Guy IV de Clermont-Nesle); and in 1414 Louis I of Bourbon-Vendôme, Count of Vendôme, Grand Master of France.
→ 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.
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.
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.
→ Their daughter Éléonore, Dame de Conti, x Louis I, Prince of Conde: hence the following of the Princes of Conde and Conti.
married in 1557 to Francis 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).
married in 1600 to Claude de Gontaut-Biron, † 1617, daughter of Marshal of France Armand.
married in 1627 to Julienne Catherine de La Tour d'Auvergne, daughter of Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne and Elizabeth of Nassau daughter of William the Silent.
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,
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.
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).
married in 1737 to François Joseph de Béthune (1719- † 1739) 17, marquis d'Ancenis.
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.