Raoul II of Brienne, Count of Eu

Raoul II de Brienne († November 19, 1350 in Paris) was the son of Raoul I de Brienne, Count of Eu and Guines, and Jeanne de Mello. In 1344 he succeeded his father as Count both as a Constable of France. In 1340 he married Catherine, daughter of Ludwig II of Savoy and Vaud Isabelle de Chalon, and widow of Azzo Visconti. He had no legitimate children, only one illegitimate son, Jean du Bois, seigneur de Maison Forte.

At the siege of Caen in 1346 Raoul was by the British Army under the leadership of Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent captured. In the fall of 1350 he was allowed to return to France after he succeeded to raise 60,000 Goldécu ransom.

Upon his arrival in Paris he was arrested on 18 November 1350 and detained at the Louvre, for reasons that are unclear. The next day he was beheaded on the orders of the king and without trial in the court of the Louvre. The execution of John II brought the enmity of a large part of the French nobility, a, most notably by those who had family relations with Raoul II de Brienne.

Raoul's successor as Constable was Charles de la Cerda, who had been working on it for long. The county of Guines was confiscated and incorporated into the royal domain, the county Eu Jean d' Artois, called Jean Sans Terre, where the son of Robert III. of Artois. On January 22, 1351, the castle of Guines fell by treachery into the hands of the English. 1360 were awarded the Peace of Brétigny city and county completely England.

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  • Graf ( Guines )
  • Constable (France)
  • Person in the Hundred Years' War
  • House of Brienne
  • Born in the 14th century
  • Died in 1350
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