Raoul I, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis

French nobleman

Raoul I the Red of Clermont (before 1140 — killed 15 October 1191) was a French nobleman, and Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis from 1161 until his death. He was the eldest son of Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, and his second wife (Clemencia de Bar?) and thus a younger half-brother of Margaret of Clermont.

He was Constable of France from 1174 under Phillip II, King of France.^[1] During the Jacquerie of 1181, he followed the orders of the regent and led the soldiers to secure the abbey of Saint-Leu.^[2] He accompanied Phillip in the Third Crusade and died during the Siege of Acre (1189–91).^[1]

Raoul married Alix de Breteuil (d. 1196), daughter of Valerian III, Seigneur de Breteuil,^[3] and his wife Haldeburge, lady of Tartigny. Raoul and Alix had:

• Catherine of Clermont (d. 1223), married in 1184 to Louis de Blois, Count of Blois and Chartres.^[4]
• Aelis (d. before 1182)
• Mathilde, married to William I, Seigneur of Vierzon
• Philippe de Clermont (d. between 1182 and 1192).

Upon his death, his son-in-law Louis became Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis.

References

1. Baldwin 1986, p. 104.
2. Wright 1998, p. 84-85.
3. Dyggve 1935, p. 73.
4. Power 2004, p. 490.

Sources

• Baldwin, John W. (1986). The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the. University of California Press.
• Dyggve, Holger Petersen (1935). "Personnages historiques figurant dans la poésie lyrique française des XII e et XIII e siècles. III: Les dames du »Tournoiement» de Huon d'Oisi". Neuphilologische Mitteilungen. 36 (2).
• Power, Daniel (2004). The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press.
• Wright, Nicholas (1998). Knights and Peasants: The Hundred Years War in the French Countryside. The Boydell Press.

External links

• Prime, Temple, Note on the County of Clermont, Notes Relative to Certain Matters Connected with French History, De Vinne Press, New York, 1903 (available on Google Books)
• Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th Edition (archive)