Robert II DE DREUX Comte de Braine et de Dreux

   General Notes:

The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "duos episcopos et comitem Robertum II de Brana et sorores duas eorum" as children of "comitem de Brana Robertum domnum" & his second wife. "Robertus…comes Drocarum et Brane et…et uxor mea Agnes comitissa Brane" donated revenue from property "apud Qualliacum" to Paris Hôtel-Dieu, with the consent of "Roberti filii nostri", by charter dated 1178. "Robertus comes frater…regis Francorum Ludovici et…uxor mea Agnes comitissa Brenensis et filii nostri Robertus dominus Drocarum, Willelmus et Iohannes" donated property to Sainte Geneviève by charter dated 1184. "R comes dominus Droc et Bran" donated property to Notre-Dame de la Trappe naming "R pater meus comes…frater Ludovici…regis Francie" by charter dated Jul 1212. Seigneur de Nesles 1170. Having married the widow of the Comte de Nevers, he administered the counties of Nevers, Auxerre and Tonnerre during the minority of his stepson Comte Guillaume V. He succeeded his father 1184 as Comte de Dreux, and in 1188 as Comte de Braine. "Robertus comes, dominus Drocarum" donated property "in…Rupis Fortis" to Notre-Dame des Vaux de Cernay, with the consent of "uxoris mee Yolendis", by charter dated to [1184/1200]. “Robertus comes, dominus Drocarum et Braye, et Yolendis comitissa uxor mea” donated property to Notre-Dame, Paris, with the consent of “Roberti filii nostri”, by charter dated 1208. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records the death in 1218 of "comes Robertus" in the same week as the marriage of his daughter Philippa. The Chronicon Fiscannensis Cœnobii records the death in 1218 of "Robertus Comes Drocensis et Branæ, filius Agnetis Comitissæ".

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   Marriage Information:

Robert married Mahaud (Mathilde) DE BOURGOGNE comtesse de Grignon, daughter of Raimond DE BOURGOGNE Comte de Grignon, Seigneur de Montpensier and Agnès DE THIERN Dame de Montpensier-en-Auvergne, in 1178. (Mahaud (Mathilde) DE BOURGOGNE comtesse de Grignon was born in 1150 and died in 1192.)

   Marriage Information:

Robert also married Yolande DE COUCY, daughter of Raoul I DE COUCY Seigneur de Coucy, Marle et le Fere and Agnès "la Boîteuse" DE HAINAUT, in 1184 in Dreux, Eure-Et-Loire, France. (Yolande DE COUCY was born in 1164 in Coucy, Aisne, Picardy, France, died on 18 Mar 1221-1222 in Braine, Aisne, Picardy, France and was buried in église abbatiale de Saint-Ived, Braine, Aisne, Picardy, France.)