Melisende De Coucy 
Melisende was born in 1125 in Coucy, Ardennes, France. Melisende's father was Thomas De Coucy and her mother was Melisende De Crecy. Her paternal grandparents were Enguerrand Boves Amiens and Ade De Marle; her maternal grandfather was Guy De Crecy. She had a brother named Enguerrand II.General Notes
As a widower Hugh IV made the prestigious marriage to Millicent (Melisende) de Coucy. The late well known author/historian Barbara Tuckman used the Coucy family as the basis for her best selling and copious work, The Distant Mirror. In the beginning, she describes Melisende's notorious father Thomas de Marla de Coucy and her grandfather Enguerrant I and her brother Enguerrand II. She also describes the importance of the strategic location of Coucy, its strength as a great bastion and why the Lords of Coucy were such a leading family of warrior knights.
They had a son named Hugh V.
Family Notes
CHAN17 May 2004
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