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Personal data Renaud de Roucy Lord of Gournay - Viking 

• Alternative name: Renaud of Roucy (Viking)
• He was born in the year 921 in Roucy, Aisne, Picardie, France.
• He died on March 15, 972 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France, he was 51 years old.
• Alternative: He died in the year 967, he was 46 years old.
• A child of Ragnvald "the Viking" of Denmark

Household of Renaud de Roucy Lord of Gournay - Viking

He is married to Alberade Aubree de Lorraine.

They got married in the year 0945 at Reims,Marne,France, he was 24 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Hugh I or Renaud De Gournay  966-1043 
2. Gilbert of Roucy   
3. Ermentrude de Roucy   

Notes about Renaud de Roucy Lord of Gournay - Viking

Count of Roucy, 948-967.
Count of Reims.The first certain appearance of Renaud is in 944, when kingLouis IV gave him Montigny-Lengrain, in the regionof Soissons, and later that year he pillaged the monastery ofSaint-Médard de Soissons [Flodoard, Annales, s.a. 944,91, 93]. In 947, Renaud appears for the first time withthe title of count ["Ragenoldus comes" ibid.,s.a. 947, 106]. In 948, he built a fortress at Roucy, and was thefirst count of that place ["... ad quandam munitionem,quam Ragenoldus, comes Ludowici, super Axonam fluvium, in locoqui dicitur Rauciacus, aedificabat, ..." ibid., s.a.948, 117]. At around the same time (948×954), he witnessed acharter of a certain Sobbo as count of Reims ["Rainaldus,Remensis comitis." Cart. Cluny 1: 687 (#730)]. It wasprobably also at about this time that he married the king'sstep-daughter Alberada, a marriage which is only indirectlydocumented (see below). He was evidently succeeded as count ofRoucy by his son Giselbert.
Based on a statement by the chronicler Flodoard that Louis IVhad ceded the comitatus of Reims to the archbishop ofReims in 940, and on the fact that certain narrative texts whichcall Renaud a count of Reims are not contemporary (e.g., Historia Francorum Senonensis, as cited below)Vercauteren argued against the existence of lay counts of Reims,and claimed that Renaud was only count of Roucy [Vercauteren(1930); however, the above Cluny charter was not mentioned]. Forthe possible identity of Renaud as the Viking Ragenold whoappears in records in the years 923-5, see the Commentary sectionbelow.
Date of birth: Unknown.
Place of birth: Unknown.
Date of death: 10 May 967, at about 7 p.m.
Place ofburial: Saint-Remi deReims.
His epitaph reads: "Plebisamor, procerumque decus, pietatis amator, / Hic, Ragenolde,solveris in cinerem. / Inter opes clarumque genus conspectus inarmis, / Prætuleras ferro pacis amore togam. / Sol quinto decimoradiabat velleris auro / Cum suprema tibi clauserat hora diem."[Moranvillé (1922), 26-7; RHF 9: 104]. Clarius of Sens statesthat Renaud, counselor of king Lothaire, died in June of theninth year of archbishop Archambaud of Sens (June 967) ["...anno VIIII ordinationis suæ, mense Junio, defunctus estRainaldus, consilarius regis Hlotarii, ..." Clarius, ChroniconSancti-Petri-Vivi Senonensis, Bib. Hist. Yonne, 2: 487; seeLot (1891), 335-6 on the chronology of Archambaud]. However, thedate appears to be not June, but 10 May, for there is an entryfor a "Raginoldus comes" in the necrology ofthe church at Reims [Moranvillé (1922), 25]. For the false dateof 973, due to the confusion with another man of the same name,see the Commentary section below.
Father: Unknown.
Mother: Unknown.
Spouse: Alberada, daughter of Giselbert,duke of Lorraine.
The marriage of Renaud and Alberada has been questioned. See theCommentary section for a discussion.
Children:
The first three children aredocumented as children of Alberada, and their documentation isdiscussed on the page of Ermentrude. Frotmund's wife isdocumented as a daughter of Renaud. Bouchard, who doubts themarriage of Renaud and Alberada, would see two unrelated familieshere [Bouchard (1981); Bouchard (1987), 268-9]. See thecommentary section.
Ermentrude, d. 1002×4, m. (1) Aubry II,count of Mâcon; (2) Otte-Guillaume, count of Bourgogne (Burgundy).
Giselbert, d. 19 April, not long after991, count of Roucy.
In the acts of the council of Reims in 991written by archbishop Gerbert (later pope Sylvester II), bishopBruno refers to his only brother Giselbert ["... id estunicum fratrem meum comitem Gislebertum, ..." Actaconcili Remensis, MGH SS 3: 661]. His epitaph appeared at Saint-Remi de Reims ["Militiætitulus et sanguine clarus avorum, / Gisleberte jaces, hoc cinisin tumulo. / Vita fugax, ætasque brevis, malefida juventus, /Divitiæ fragiles, consolidata tibi ..." Moranvillé(1922), 34]
Bruno, b. ca. 956, d. 1015×6, bishopof Langres, 981-1015×6.
Bruno was 24 years old when he was named as bishop ofLangres by his uncle king Lothair in late 980["Anno ab Incarnatione Domini DCCCC. LXXX, indictioneVIII, regni Lotharii regis XXV anno, dedit idem rex BrunoniRemensis Ecclesie clerico, suo parenti propinquitateconsanguinitatis existenti, Episcopatum Lingonice civitatis.Ordinatus est autem Bruno Episcopus per manus BurchardiLugdunensis Archiepiscopi in ecclesia sancti Stephani, vigintiquatuor gerens annos etatis: et eodem anno susceptus est a cleroLingonice urbis, ab Incarnatione videlicet Christi DCCCC. LXXXI."Chron. S.-Bénigne, 128-9]. Dates which have been given for hisdeath include 31 August 1015, 29 December 1015, 27 or 31 January1016, or 31 October 1016 [see Moranvillé (1922), 35; Anselme, 8:861].
NN, m. Frotmund II,count of Sens.
["Igitur Rainaldus comes VetulusSenonum post multa perpetrata mala defunctus est, est sepultus inbasilica sanctae Columbae virginis. Cui successit Frotmundus,filius eius, habens in coniugio filiam Rainoldi comitis Remorum."Historia Francorum Senonensis, s.a. 999, MGH SS 9: 369;see also Bib. Hist. Yonne, 2: 498]

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