Hugh I, Count of Rethel

Hugh I, Count of Rethel (1040 in Bourg – 1118 in Rethel) was a son of Count Manasses III of Rethel and his wife Judith of Roucy.He succeeded his father in 1065 as Count of Rethel.

Hugh married Melisende of Crécy, the daughter of Lord Guy I of Montlhéry. They had the following children:

• Manasses (1054-1115)
• Gervais (1056-1124), count of Rethel
• Baldwin II (1058-1131), king of Jerusalem (1118-1131), married Morphia of Melitene
• Matilda (b. 1060), married to Odo of Vitry, Count of Rethel
• Hodierna, married Heribrand III of Hierges
• Cecilia of Le Bourcq, married Roger of Salerno, prince-regent of Antioch
• Beatrix (Béatrice) married Leo I, Prince of Armenia

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