Counts of Meulan

The county of Meulan with the main town of Meulan, a strategically important fortress on the lower reaches of the Seine in the 10th century belonged to the Vexin, then came 1081 by marriage to the county Beaumont- le -Roger. 1199 was Meulan by French King Philip II Augustus, in connection with the reconquest of Normandy due to the loyalty that Count Robert VI. brought against the English under King John Lackland, fed by the French. The Capetian kept henceforth Meulan under its direct control and put only a powerless viscounts one.

Meulan was of Philip VI. given to his half-brother Louis of Evreux, then in 1364 his grandson, Charles II the Bad, king of Navarre, taken away. Charles' son, Charles III. the noble entered Meulan in 1404 finally to the King from.

Count of Meulan

  • Liégardis, Countess of Mantes and Meulan, † 990/991; ∞ I Raoul II, Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin (First House of Valois ); ∞ II
  • Waleran I, from the family of viscounts of Chartres, Count of Meulan, † before 985/987
  • Waleran II, whose son
  • Hugo I, † shortly after 1005, his son, 990/991 Viscount, 989 Comte de Meulan; ∞ Oda of Vexin, daughter of Count Walter II of Vexin, Amiens and Valois
  • Waleran III. , † 1069, son Galérans II, to 1015 Count of Meulan Hugh II, called Caput Ursae whose brother to 1023-1033 Vicomte du Vexin
  • Adeline de Meulan, † 1081, his sister; ∞ 1045 Roger de Beaumont ( Roger barbatus), Lord of Beaumont and Pont- Audemer, † 1094th

Beaumont House

  • Robert I de Beaumont, † 1118 Rogers Son, Lord of Beaumont and Pont- Audemer, 1081 Count of Meulan, Earl of Leicester in 1107; ∞ Elisabeth of Vermandois, † 1131, Dame d' Elbeuf, daughter of Count Hugo ( Capetian ) and Adelaide of Vermandois ( Carolingian )
  • Waleran IV ( Walram IV ), † 1166, son of Robert I, Count of Meulan, Earl of Worcester in 1138, Lord of Beaumont and Pont- Audemer; ∞ Agnes de Montfort, daughter of Amaury III. of Montfort, Count of Evreux, and Agnes of Garlande
  • Robert II, † 1204 son Galérans IV, Count of Meulan, deposed in 1204; ∞ Mathilde of Cornwall, daughter of the Earl Reinald ( Reginald ), an illegitimate son of King Henry I.
  • Waleran de Beaumont V., † 1190/91, son of Robert II, Count of Meulan in 1183, ∞ Marguerite de Fougères

Other families

  • Franz Hercules of France ( † 1584) Duke of Alencon, etc., Count of Meulan 1582-1584
Meulan-en-Yvelines Pont-Audemer Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester Carolingian dynasty Robert de Beaumont, Count of Meulan Henry I of England
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