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Thomas de Coucy Count of Amiens1
b. 1082, d. 1130, #35454
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Father   Enguerrand I Sire of Coucy & Boves b. circa 1058, d. 1116
Mother   Adele de Roucy of Marle2 b. circa 1040

Name Variation Thomas de Coucy Count of Amiens was also found as Thomas de Marle.3 
Name Variation Thomas de Coucy Count of Amiens was also found as Count Thomas of Boves.1 
Name Variation Thomas de Coucy Count of Amiens was also found as Thomas Sire de Coucy.4 
Birth* 1082 Thomas de was born in 1082 at Coucy, Aisne, Picardy, France.1 
!AInfoNew* 1095 In 1095 both Thomas and his father Enguerrand took up the cross and went on the First Crusade. They carried their feud to Jersalem and back. There is a "folk tale" from this exploit that explains the Crucy coat of arms. One or the other, it is not recorded which, with five compainions were surprised by a party of Moselms when out of armor. One of them took off his scarlet cloak trimmed with vair (squirrel fur), tore in into six pieces to make banners for recognition and fell upon the Moslems and annihilated them. In commenoration, a shield was adopted being the device of six horizonal bands, pointed, of red on white.3 
Marriage* circa 1100 Thomas de Coucy Count of Amiens married Ida de Hainaut, daughter of Baldwin II of Hainault and Ida of Louvain, circa 1100. They had at least one daughter:
Beatrice, d. ca. 1156, m. Sire Everard III de Breteuil, who d. 1148.

http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/continent/cc/coucy1.htm says that they had two daughters. The second one: Ida de Coucy who m1. Alard de Chimay and m2. Benard d'Orbais.5,6
 
!AInfoNew* 1100 Out of the vicious family situation of his parents, Thomas became the most notorious and savage of the Coucys. Bitterly hating the father who had cast his paternity in doubt, Thomas grew up to take part in the ceaseless was originally launched against Enguerrand I by the discarded husband of Sybil.7 
!AInfoNew 1101 Some say that Thomas married for the second time a daughter of Montaigu, who was born ca 1070. No supporting evidence.5 
Marriage* circa 1107 Thomas de Coucy Count of Amiens married Melisende de Montlhery de Crecy, daughter of Gui II de Montlhery, Count of Rochefort and Elise de Corbeil, circa 1107. This would have been a third marriage for Thomas.1,8,5 
!AInfoNew 1108 Distant Mirror claims that he was married three times I have only one name of his wife. Abbot Guibert tought him "the wickedest man of his generation."3 
!AInfoNew 1116 Thomas was the heir of his mother's territories of Marle and La Fere. Thomas added them to the Coucy domain when he succeeded his father in 1116.3 
!AInfoNew 1117 Untamed, he pursued a career of enmity and brigandage, against the church, towns and king. There are horror stories about his treatment of towns people and rebellious bourgeois. He was excommunicated by the Church, and ungirdled--in absentia-- of the knightly belt and the chuch ordered the anathema to be read against him every Sunday in every parish in Picardy. King Louis VI assemabled a force for war and succeeded in divesting him of stolen land and castles. Nevertheless, he attempted to save his soul from Hell by generous bequests to the Abbey of Nugent and founded another abbey at Premontre nearby. 
Death* 1130
Thomas de died in bed in 1130 or 1130 at Amiens, at Somme, at Picardy at France.1,8,3 

Family 1   Melisende de Montlhery de Crecy b. circa 1084, d. after 1147
Children  1. Enguerrand II de Coucy Sire of Coucy and Marle+ b. 1108, d. 11484,1
  2. Melesinde de Coucy b. c 11109

Citations
  1. Download, Jim Weber e-mail address 14Nov2003 http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I05046 .
  2. Download, http://www.gendex.com/users/jast/ citing Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (6:31), (37:31) .
  3. Barbard W. Tuchman, Distant Mirror, p 8.
  4. Download, http://www.gendex.com/users/jast/ citing Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (37:30) .
  5. Download, http://members.aol.com/dwidad/coucy.html.
  6. Download, http://www.stirnet.com/HTML/genie/continent/cc/coucy1.htm.
  7. Barbard W. Tuchman, Distant Mirror, p 7.
  8. Download, http://www.gendex.com/users/jast/ citing Stuart's "Royalty For Commoners" (37:30) (5:30).
  9. Download, http://www.gendex.com/users/jast/ .
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