RETHEL Gervais

Abt 1088 - 1124  (36 years)

• Name	RETHEL Gervais
  Birth	Abt 1088	Rethel, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	1124	Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
  Notes	Gervais served as an archdeacon of Rheims before being nominated as Archbishop of Rheims by the King's supporters against Raoul the Green in 1106 The next year Paschall II declared him unfit, quashed his election and Gervais resigned as archbishop in 1109, returning to his former role as archdeacon Upon the death of his elder brother, Manasser, in 1115, Gervais resigned from the clergy and married Elisabeth, daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Namur and in 1118 he succeeded his father as Count of Rethel. Gervais died in 1124 and his widow Elizabeth remarried to Roger Clarembauld, Lord of Rosoi in Thierache who gave the hand of his step-daughter to Robert Marmion, Baron of Tamworth Because Gervais' younger brother Baldwin was in the Holy Land, where he served as King of Jerusalem, he was succeeded as ruler of Rethel by his sister Matilda and her husband Odo of Vitry This profile lacks source information. Please add sources that support the facts. Archdeacon of Reims until father's death (and brother's subsequent resignation of his title as Count of Rethel, 1118). Sources http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I05358 - accessed 24 May 2017 http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=7122234&pid=1713 http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=6835128&pid=-478470400 Charles Ferrers R. Palmer (1875), History of the Baronial Family of Marmion, Lords of the Castle of Tamworth, etc. (hardback) Tamworth: J. Thompson, pp. 49–50 George Edward Cokayne (1893), Complete Peerage Sir Leslie Stephen (1893), Sidney Lee, Dictionary of National Biography Smith, Elder & Co
  Person ID	I60174	Freeman-Smith
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026

  
  

  Father	RETHEL Hugues,   b. Abt 1050, Rethel, Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France d. Abt Nov 1118, Rethel, Ardennes, France (Age 68 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	MONTLHÉRY Melisende,   b. Abt 1043, Montlhéry, France d. Aft 1097, Rethel, France (Age > 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F26676	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	NAMUR Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1095, Namur, Belgium d. Aft 1148, France (Age > 54 years)
  Children	1. RETHEL Mélisende,   b. Abt 1122, Rethel, Ardennes, France d. Aft 1154, Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England (Age > 33 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F26707	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	27 Jan 2026