Mélisende DE CRÉCY, Dame de Crécy-sur-Serre et de Nogent-en-Vermandois 1
- Born: Crécy, Ardennes, Champagne, France
- Married: Before 1109
- Died: After 1147
 Research Notes:
The Annales Lobienses name "de terra Ambianensi…Milesendem" as wife of "Thomam de Marla" after he repudiated his first wife. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines refers to the second wife of "Thomas de Coci" as "domna de Bovis". Tardif records Thomas’s third marriage with "Milesende de Crécy, héritière de Guy seigneur de Crécy-sur-Serre", adding that her dowry was "les deux châteaux de Crécy et de Nouvion-l’Abbesse, dépendant tous deux de l’abbaye de Saint-Jean de Laon" (no primary source cited which provides the basis for the statement). A charter dated 16 Apr 1131 records the restoration of “Erlons et manso sancti Lamberti” to Laon Saint-Vincent, subscribed by “Gerardi vicedomini, Nicholai castellani...domine Milesendis, Ingelranni filii eius...”. 2
Marriage Information:
Mélisende married Thomas I DE COUCY de Marle, comte d'Amiens, Sn de Boves, son of Sn Enguerrand I DE BOVES et de Coucy and Ade DE ROUCY, Dame de Marle, before 1109. (Thomas I DE COUCY was born about 1073 in Coucy, Aisne, Picardy, France and died in 1130/1 in Amiens, Somme, Picardy, France.)
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