Jacques d'Avesnes

1150 - 1191  (41 years)

• Name	Jacques d'Avesnes
  Birth	1150  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	7 Sep 1191	Arsuf, Palestine   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I21042	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	12 Dec 2023

  
  

  Father	Nicholas d'Oisy   d. Between 1169 and 1171
  Mother	Matilda de la Roche
  Marriage	Bef 1150  [1]
  Family ID	F12996	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adela of Guise
  Marriage	1180  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Alix d'Avesnes + 2. Mathilde d'Avesnes   d. Aft 5 Nov 1236 + 3. Ida d'Avesnes   d. Abt 23 Sep 1216 + 4. Gautier II d'Avesnes   d. Aft 1243 + 5. Bouchard IV d'Avesnes,   b. Abt 1181   d. 7 Sep 1244 (Age ~ 63 years)
  Family ID	F12994	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2020

  
  

• Notes

  Also called Jacques d'Avesnes. From Wikipedia: He was the lord of Avesnes, Condé, and Leuze from 1171. In November 1187, James joined the Third Crusade as leader of a detachment of French, Flemish, and Frisian crusaders arriving by ship on the Israeli coast near Acre around 10 September 1189. James and his men came as military reinforcements for the Siege of Acre. At the Battle of Arsulf, James was thrown from his saddle and, after slaying fifteen enemy warriors, was himself cut down. The next day, a search party of Hospitallers and Templars found his body on the battlefield. It was taken back to Arsuf and buried there in a ceremony attended by Richard the Lionheart and Guy of Lusignan.

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S1526] The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz, Wife of Reverend John Owsley, Generations 1-15, Fourth Preliminary Edition, by Ronny O. Bodine and Bro. Thomas Spalding, Jr. 2013.