Yves II, Count of Soissons
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 Council of 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
[edit]- 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
[edit]- ^ Bisson 1995, p. 21.
- ^ Slack 2001, p. 75.
- ^ Bradbury 2007, p. 154.
- ^ Hodgson 2007, p. 221.
- ^ Gislebertus of Mons 2005, p. 40.
- ^ Gislebertus of Mons 2005, p. 35.
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