Reinald (Ragenold) DE ROUCY

Reinald (Ragenold) DE ROUCY (aft920-967)

Name:	Reinald (Ragenold) DE ROUCY ¹
Sex:	Male
Father:	-
Mother:	-

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth	btw 0920 and 0931
Occupation	frm 0955 to 0967 (age 23-47)	Count of Roucy
Death	10 May 0967 (age 35-47)
Burial		Abbey of Saint-Remi

Marriage

Spouse	Alberade OF LORRAINE ( - )
Children	Giselbert OF ROUCY (bef956-bef1000)
Marriage	0945 (app) (age 13-25)

Individual Note

Renaud or Ragenold, Count of Roucy (b: abt 920 or 931 - d: 10 May 967). Known as a Viking who became the military chief of Reims after the restoration of Artald of Reims. He'd built a fort at Roucy between late 940s and early 950s and supported young King Lothair of France in the expedition at Aquitaine and the siege of Poitiers. Renaud became the Count of Roucy around or before 955 by King Lothair.

He married Alberade of Lorraine, daughter of Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine around 945 and had four children:

Ermentrude (married firstly to Aubry II of Mâcon, secondly to Otto-William, Count of Burgundy)

Giselbert (Gilbert of Roucy) who succeeded his father as Count of Roucy in May 967.

Unknown daughter who may have married to Fromond II of Sens.

Bruno, the Bishop of Langres.

Renaud could have a brother named Dodo according to Flodoard, but it could be a name of place where Renaud's brother was located. Their parents are not known or recorded.

Renaud died in 10 May 967 and was buried at the Abbey of Saint-Remi.

SOURCES:

Foundation of Medieval Genealogy on the Viking Count of Roucy.

Stewart Baldwin's thorough analysis on Ragenold of Roucy

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaud_of_Roucy"²

Sources

¹	Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 146, 151-19.

²	"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaud_of_Roucy.