Biography of Renaud Dammartin I Count Boulogne, Dammartin and Aumale 1165-1227

Maternal Family Tree: Adela Valois Countess Blois and Vermandois

Around 1165 Renaud Dammartin I Count Boulogne, Dammartin and Aumale was born to Alberic Dammartin and Mathilde Clermont.

Before 1190 Renaud Dammartin I Count Boulogne, Dammartin and Aumale (age 24) and Marie Chatillon were married.

In 1190 Renaud Dammartin I Count Boulogne, Dammartin and Aumale (age 25) by marriage I Count Boulogne.

In 1190 Renaud Dammartin I Count Boulogne, Dammartin and Aumale (age 25) and Ida Metz Countess Boulogne (age 30) were married. She the daughter of Matthew Metz Count Boulogne and Marie Blois I Countess Boulogne.

In 1200 Renaud Dammartin I Count Boulogne, Dammartin and Aumale (age 35) was appointed I Count Dammartin.

In 1200 [his mother] Mathilde Clermont died.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

In 1200 [his father] Alberic Dammartin died.

In 1202 [his daughter] Matilda Dammartin Queen Consort Portugal was born to Renaud Dammartin I Count Boulogne, Dammartin and Aumale (age 37) and [his wife] Ida Metz Countess Boulogne (age 42). She a great granddaughter of King Stephen I England.

In 1204 Renaud Dammartin I Count Boulogne, Dammartin and Aumale (age 39) was appointed I Count Aumale.

In 1216 [his wife] Ida Metz Countess Boulogne (age 56) died.

In 1227 Renaud Dammartin I Count Boulogne, Dammartin and Aumale (age 62) committed suicide.

[his father] Alberic Dammartin and [his mother] Mathilde Clermont were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Renaud II Count Clermont and [his grandmother] Adelaide I Countess Vermandois.