Yolande DE COUCY

   General Notes:

The Chronicon Hanoniense names (in order) "Iolandem…Agnetis…tercia…Ada" as the three daughters of "Radulphus de Cocy" & his wife, specifying that Yolande married "Roberto comiti de Drecis et de Braina, filioque Roberti comitis fratris Ludovici regis Francorum". The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines refers to the two daughters of "Rodulfo de Marla" & his wife Agnes as "mater…comitis de Grandiprato, altera Hyolenz [uxor] comiti de Brana Roberto". "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. "R comes dominus Droc et Bran" donated property to Notre-Dame de la Trappe with the consent of "Agnetis uxoris eius [R patris meis]…comitisse matris mee…et Yolande comitisse uxore mee et liberorum meorum" by charter dated Jul 1212. The necrology of Reims [Saint-Rémi] records the death "XV Kal Apr" of "Ioles Brane comitissa".

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   Marriage Information:

Yolande married Robert II DE DREUX Comte de Braine et de Dreux, son of Robert "le Grand" DE FRANCE Seigneur de Dreux and Agnès DE BAUDÉMENT Dame de Braine, in 1184 in Dreux, Eure-Et-Loire, France. (Robert II DE DREUX Comte de Braine et de Dreux was born in 1153 in Braine, Aisne, Picardy, France, died on 28 Dec 1218 in Dreux, Eure-et-Loire, Beauce/Centre, France and was buried in église abbatiale de Saint-Ived, Braine, Aisne, Picardy, France.)