Arnoul de Guines, III Comte de Guines

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Arnould III, Count of Guînes
Blason de la Maison de Guines.svg
Count of Guînes
Reign c.1222-1283
Predecessor Baldwin III, Count of Guînes
Successor Baldwin IV, Count of Guînes
Died 1283
Spouse Alix de Coucy
Issue
Baldwin
Enguerrand
Jean
Marguerite
Isabeau
Alix
Beatrix
House House of Guînes
Father Baldwin III, Count of Guînes
Mother Mahaut de Fiennes
Arnould III, Count of Guînes (c.1222-1283) was a French nobleman. He was castellan of Bourbourg, lord of Ardres, Tourcoing and Aalst.

Biography
Arnould was the eldest son of Baldwin III, Count of Guînes and Mahaut de Fiennes. He succeeded his father by January 1245.

He went to England to pay homage to Henry III of England, for lands held in England, he was arrested by Roger Bigot, Earl of Norfolk, in retaliation for when Arnould had arrested Bigod in 1245. Louis IX of France meditated his release, with an agreement that Arnould will remove the tolls he had installed.

Arnould provided homage to Robert I, Count of Artois. He supported Theobald II, Count of Bar as part of Guy, Count of Flanders succession campaign against William II of Holland.

Captured during the battle of Westkapelle on 4 July 1253, Arnould was forced to pay a large ransom for his release. He was forced to sell his castle of Montoire to the Count of Artois in May 1281 and then the County of Guînes to Philip III of France in February 1283 for 3,000 livres and a life annuity of 1,000 livres.

Arnould died shortly afterwards in 1283. The County of Guînes was returned to his eldest son Baldwin in 1295.

Marriage and issue
Arnould married Alix, daughter of Enguerrand III de Coucy and Marie de Montmirail, dame of Oisy, they are known to have had the following issue.

Baudouin IV (died 1295), Count of Guînes and lord of Ardres, married Catherine de Monchy, had issue.
Enguerrand de Guines, Lord of Coucy, succeeded his uncle as the lord of Coucy, Montmirail and Oisy, raised at the court of Alexander III of Scotland. He married Christian de Lindsay, had issue.
Jean de Guînes, Viscount of Meaux, married Jeanne de Chantilly, dame of Senlis, had issue.
Marguerite (or Margaret) de Guînes, married Richard Óg de Burgh, Knt., Earl of Ulster, lord of Connaught, and had issue.
Isabeau de Guines, married Gaucher de Bazoches, without issue.
Alix de Guînes, dame of Tourcoing, married Wouter VII Berthout van Mechelen, had issue.
Béatrix de Guînes, abbess of the Abbey of Sainte-Colombe, Blendecques.
References
Lambert of Ardres. Edited by Leah Shopkow. The History of the Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. ISBN 9780812200546
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Château de Guînes was a castle in Guînes, Pas-de-Calais, France.

History

Motte of château de Guînes.
Baldwin II, Count of Guînes, began construction of a castle at Guînes on top of an ancient fort in the late 12th century, consisting of a courtyard, surrounded by towers with a donjon.

After the capture of Calais by King Edward III of England in 1349, the castle was captured by the English in 1352 by an English force led by the valet John of Doncaster.[1] The French laid siege to the castle to regain control, however the siege was unsuccessful. In 1360, the Treaty of Brétigny surrendered the city and its county to England becoming part of the Pale of Calais.

Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, laid siege to Guînes in 1436 with a force of Flemish militia.[2] When an English relief army of some 10,000 men under Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester approached, the Duke of Burgundy abandoned the siege, leaving his artillery and large amounts of baggage behind.[2] Francis d'Orléans, Count of Angoulême laid siege to Guînes in 1514, but broke the siege upon learning of the approach of an English army under the command of King Henry VIII of England.[2]

The castle was placed under siege by a French army in 1558, led by Francis, Duke of Guise.[3] The castle withstood the siege for a few days. The English commander, William Grey, 13th Baron Grey de Wilton, was forced to surrender the castle, on 21 January, after the French entered the outer defences of the castle, Grey was wounded and his soldiers refused to fight on.[3] The French gave honourable terms of surrender and English rule of the area came to an end. The castle was badly slighted by the Duke of Guise, however was known to be used to house the local commander. It was later destroyed during the Spanish incursions during 1595 to 1598.

Citations

Colvin 1963, p. 456.

Ayloffe 1771, p. 19.

Smith 1900, p. 214.

References
Ayloffe, Joseph (1771). Historical Description of an Ancient Picture in Windsor-Castle Representing the Interview Between King Henry VIII and the French King Francis I. Between Guines and Ardres in the Year 1520.
Colvin, Howard (1963). The History of the King's Works. Vol. 1. Ministry of Public Building and Works. H.M. Stationery Office.
Smith, George Barnett (1900). "Grey, William (d.1562)" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 23. London: Smith, Elder & Co. pp. 213–215.

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