Robert II of Dreux

Robert II of Dreux , born in 1154, dead the December 28th 1218, count de Dreux and of Braine, wire of Robert Ier, count de Dreux, and of Agnes de Baudemont, lady of Braine.

It took part in the Third crusade and was announced to the seat of Acre and the battle of Arsur (1191). Income in France, it combatit the English (1195 - 1198), then led troops to the Albigensian Crusade in 1210. It helped his brother Philippe, bishop of Beauvais, in fight against the count de Boulogne and ordered the left wing of the army of king Philippe Auguste at the time of the battle of Bouvines (1214).

Robert II of Dreux and Yolande de Coucy, his wife, are buried in the necropolis family of the Saint-Yved abbey of Braine

Marriages and children

Married in first weddings in 1178 (and separated in 1181) with Mahaut of Burgundy (1150 † 1192), girl of Raymond of Burgundy, count de Grignon, and of Agnes de Montpensier; marriage without posterity.

Married in second weddings in 1184 with Yolande de Coucy (1164 † 1222), girl of Raoul Ier, lord of Coucy and Agnes de Hainaut, from where:

* Robert III '' Gasteblé '' (1185 † 1234), count de Dreux

* Eléonore (1186 † ap.1248), married to Hugues III of Châteauneuf († 1229), then with Robert de Saint-Clearly

* Isabelle (1188 † ap.1242), married to Jean II of Pierrepont (1205 † 1251), count de Roucy

* Alix (1189 † 1258), married about 1200 with Gautier IV of Burgundy († 1219), lord the Saline ones, then in 1221 with Renaud III of Choiseul (1195 † 1239)

* Pierre '' Mauclerc '' (1191 † 1250), duke of Brittany

* Philippa (1192 † 1242), married in 1219 with Henri II of Bar (1190 † 1239)

* Henri, archbishop of Rheims (1193 † 1240)

* Agnes (1195-1258), married to Etienne III of Burgundy, count d' Auxonne († 1241)

* Yolande (1196-1239), married to Raoul II of Lusignan, count of Have († 1250)

* Jean (1198 † 1239), count de Mâcon and from Vienna

* Jeanne (1199 † 1272) religious

* Geoffroy (1200-1219)

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