Melisende de Montlhéry

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• Web Reference: Charles Crawley's Medieval Lands, Seigneurs de Montlhéry. ¹⁰¹⁴
Melisende is named as the wife of Hugues comté de Rethel, son of Manassess III, comté de Rethel.

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Elizabeth or Isabell of Namur, daughter of Godfrey of Namur and his wife Sibylle, daughter of Roger, Count of Chateau-Porcien, married as her first husband, Gervais, Count of Rethel, who died 1124. Gervias was the 3rd son of Hugh I, Count of Rethel and Mélisende de Montlhéry, who was the archedeacon of Rheims, which he resigned on the death of his father and succeeded hims as the count of Rethel.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 246A:23-24

• Background Information. ¹⁶⁰
Hugh I comté de Rethel in 1086, son of Manasses III, comté de Ruthel and Yvette de Roucy, died in 1056. Hugh I married Mélisende de Monthlhéry daughter of Guy I de Montlhéry, who died in 1095, seigneur of Monthlhéry and Bry by his wife, Hodierne de Gometz.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 103a:23-24

Melisende married Hugh de Rethel comté de Rethel, son of Manassess de Rethel comté de Rethel and Yvette de Roucy.¹⁶⁰ (Hugh de Rethel comté de Rethel died in 1118 ¹⁶⁰.)