Hugh I of Le Puiset (died 23 December 1096), also called Hugues Blavons, was the second son of
Everard I of Breteuil and his wife Humberge.
In 1067, taking advantage of the weakness of
Philip I of France
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, he seized the royal and settled there. In 1073, he became
viscount of Chartres when his older brother,
Everard II, abdicated to become a monk.
Hugh married Alice of Montlhéry, daughter of
Guy I, lord of Montlhéry, and
Hodierna de Gometz. The family of Montlhéry was also part of the turbulent nobility that
King Louis VI would have to put down a generation later. The alliances of the Montlhéry Clan formed a broad network of nobles who engaged heavily in the Crusades.
Hugh and Alice had at least nine children:
* Odeline (d. before 2 November 1107), married Joscelin IV of Lèves, a crusader. Their daughter (name unknown) married
Ralph the Red of Pont-Echanfray Ralph the Red (Ralph le Roux, Raoul II Rufus) of Pont-Echnfrey (c. 1070 – 25 November 1120), son of either Guillaume de Pont-Echanfrey or his brother Raoul I. Ralph was a knight who first served Robert Guiscard and then participated both in the F ...
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*
Éverard III, lord of Puiset, viscount of Chartres
*
Hugh II, lord of Puiset, count of Jaffa (as Hugh I of Jaffa)
* Guy (d. 1127 of after), canon of Chartres, lord of Méréville, viscount of Étampes
*
Gilduin Gilduin, Gelduin or Geldwin may refer to:
*Gelduin of Saumur (), father-in-law of Hervé I, Count of Perche
* (died 1049), archbishop of Sens
* (died 1077), elected archbishop of Dol, saint
* Gelduin of Anchin (died 1123), abbot, correspondent of ...
(d. 1135), monk at
Saint-Martin-des-Champs, prior of Lurey-Le-Bourg, abbot of the
Abbey of St. Mary of the Valley of Jehosaphatt
*
Waleran (Galéran) (d. in prison 1126), made lord of
Birecik
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Built on a limestone cliff 400 ft. high on the left/east bank of the Euphrates, " ...
in 1116 after its capture by
Baldwin II. Married the daughter of the previous lord, Abu'lgharib.
* Ralph
* Humberge, married
Walo II of Beaumont-sur-Oise, viscount of Chaumont-en-Vexin. Their son Drogo was an early ancestor of the counts of Dammartin.
* Eustachie
Hugh established a
priory of Marmountier at
Le Puiset. See also
the Houses of Montlhéry and Le Puiset
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1096 deaths
11th-century French nobility