Raoul_I,_Count_of_Clermont-en-Beauvaisis
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.