User:Kansas Bear/Bourchard VI

Bouchard VI}}''' (1203-1243), baron of Montmorency, lord of Écouen, of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, of Feuillarde, of Château-Basset, of [ [Mourning-la-Barre|Mourning]], of Épinay, of Saint-Brice, of Groslay and of Taverny.

Family
His father is Mathieu II de Montmorency, known as the Great, Baron de Montmorency, constable of France. His mother is his father's first wife, Gertrude de Nesle-Soissons, daughter of Count Raoul II de Soissons. He is their first son and their second child.

His brothers :
 * Mathieu (died in February 1250 at the battle of Mansourah), lord of Attichy. Count of Ponthieu by his marriage (between September 1240 and 15 December 1241) with Marie de Ponthieu (born before April 17, 1199 and died in September 1250), daughter of Guillaume “Talvas” Count of Ponthieu and his wife Alix de France, widow of Simon de Dammartin Count of Aumâle;
 * John (died after January 1226) ;

and for half-brother and half-sisters, by his father, widower of Gertrude and remarried for a second marriage with Emma de Laval (1200-1264), lady of Laval, widow of - count of Alençon (marriage in July 1218), :
 * Guy VII of Laval (1219-1265), baron of Vitré, lord of Laval (1264 -1265), lord of Acquigny, of Hérouville, of Aubigné and of Olivet ;
 * Avoise de Montmorency (died in 1270) who married Jacques de Château-Gontier in 1239;
 * Marsilie de Montmorency (died in 1264 or after).

Ancestry
Hugues Capet → Robert II of France → Henri I of France → Philippe I of France → Louis VI of France → Robert I of Dreux → Alix of Dreux → Gertrude of Nesle-Soissons → Bouchard VI of Montmorency

Biography
Continuing his father's policy, Bouchard VI was one of the royal officers sent to fight the Count of La Marche. In 1242, he was present at the battle of Taillebourg (Charente Maritime), where the troops of the king Louis IX severely defeated those of the king of England Henry III.

Marriage and descendants
Around August 1220, Bouchard married Isabel de Laval (1202-1244), daughter of Guy V de Laval and Havoise de Craon and younger sister of his mother-in-law Emma. From this marriage, came:
 * Mathieu III de Montmorency (died in 1270);
 * Thibault de Montmorency (died on December 29, in 1268 or after), canon;
 * Bouchard VII de Montmorency (died after October 1284), married Philippa Britaud, daughter of Jean Britaud lord of Nangis and constable of Sicily, and his wife Marguerite ;
 * Havoise de Montmorency (died in 1286 or before September 1287). She married Anseau IV de Garlande, lord of Tournan en Brie<ref name="medlandsBouc