Hugh IV de GOURNAY

Birth:

Abt 1091

Caister, Norfolk, England

Death:

1214

Holy Land

Father:

Gerard de GOURNAY

Mother:

Editha Elisabith) de WARENNE

Notes:

Note:
After Hugh III died in the Holy Land in 1104, the young boy Hugh IV was taken into King Henry I's court for his education, and is said to have been brought up as one of the King's sons. Hugh IV was knighted by Henry I but seems to have responded ungratefully, because he supported Amauri de Montfort in his rebellion against Henry in 1118, but he was forgiven by his royal patron and reinstated in his manors. In 1120 there were further intrigues, which induced the Pope to intervene and arrange a reconciliation. Hugh IV seems later to have atoned by founding (or confirming the foundaton of) the Abbey of Beaubec. In fact, in 1134 he was made, with William de Roumare, Earl of Lincoln, a Commander of the frontiers; but when Stephen became King, he once again showed inconsistancy in his loyalty.
In 1141 he was on the French side in a siege that the future King Henry II made of LaFerte, which was burnt down. At Whitsun 1147 he accompanied Louis the Young, King of France, on the Second Crusade.
After Henry II became King he siezed two of Hugh IV's manors - those of Wendover and Houghton, Bedfordshire, and he was much more unfortunate in 1173 when the young Prince Henry, in rebellion against his father Henry II, stormed and burnt Gournay Castle, taking Hugh and his elder son prisoner.
Like his father, Hugh IV was an enthusiastic supporter of the Crusades. At great age he took part in another expedition to Palestine in 1180 but died that same year in Italy.
Hugh IV married twice, each time into a leading family. Beatrice de Vermandois was a granddaughter of King Henri of France; her sister Isabel has seven proven descents to Charlemagne (Weiss, Ancestral Roots). [BrÃ[cedilla]derbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #6402]

Melisende (Millicent) COUCY

Birth:

1125

Coucy, Ardennes, France

Father:

Thomas Demarle COUCY, SIRE COUCY AND MARLE

Mother:

Melisende CRECY

Notes:

                   Note: As a widower Hugh IV made the prestigious marriage to Millicent (Melisende) de Coucy. The late well known author/historian Barbara Tuckman used the Coucy family as the basis for her best selling and copious work, The Distant Mirror. In the beginning, she describes Melisende's notorious father Thomas de Marla de Coucy and her grandfather Enguerrant I and her brother Enguerrand II. She also describes the importance of the strategic location of Coucy, its strength as a great bastion and why the Lords of Coucy were such a leading family of warrior knights. [BrÃ[cedilla]derbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #6402]

Children

Marriage

Hugh V GOURNAY

Birth:

Abt 1163

Ashby, Bucks, England

Death:

1214

Poitou, France

Juliane DAMMARTIN

Marr:

Notes:

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Note:
Hugh V de Gournay inherited his father's lands in 1181, and in 1185 he paid Â£100 for the livery of the Gournay barony in England. He was well in the favor of Richard I, whom he joined in the Third Crusade at Acre in June 1191. After the capture of the city by the joint English and French forces, the spoils were divided between the two armies and King Richard appointed Hugh as the baron to organize the division in cooperation with a French opposite number. After the Acre campaign had been concluded, a growing antagonism developed between the allied monarchs, Richard I of England and Philip II of France. Hugh in his estates was a vassal of both Kings and he became an unfortunate pawn in the quarrel.
With the accession of John to the English throne in 1199, Hugh's problems grew greater. Although he was a signatory to a treaty made between John and Philip II in 1200, he lost Gournay, captured by the French king during his invasion of Normandy in 1202. Eventually, all his lands in France were forfeited. He also, unfortunately, incurred the distrust of the suspicious and capricious King John, who deprived him of his manor in East Anglia. He was allowed to return with his family in 1205, the king's letter being still extant. England was an alien land to him, but he established himself sufficiently to be made Sheriff of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in 1214. Later that year he accompanied John on a visit to France and died at Poitou.
He is remembered for one good work, for in 1198 he founded the Abbey of Bellosanne, in the district of Brai, only five miles from Gournay. The religious house survived until the French Revolution.
Hugh emulated his father in making a beneficial marriage, for the Dammartins were one of the leading families of early medieval France. [BrÃ[cedilla]derbund WFT Vol. 3, Ed. 1, Tree #6402]

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Hugh IV de Gournay - Melisende (Millicent) Coucy

Hugh IV de Gournay was born at Caister, Norfolk, England Abt 1091. His parents were Gerard de Gournay and Editha Elisabith) de Warenne.

He married Melisende (Millicent) Coucy . Melisende (Millicent) Coucy was born at Coucy, Ardennes, France 1125 daughter of Thomas Demarle Coucy, Sire Coucy and Marle and Melisende Crecy .

They were the parents of 1 child:
Hugh V Gournay born Abt 1163.

Hugh IV de Gournay died 1214 at Holy Land .