Le Puiset
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Le Puiset is a commune
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Eure-et-Loir
Eure-et-Loir
Eure-et-Loir is a French department, named after the Eure and Loir rivers.-History:Eure-et-Loir is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790 pursuant to the Act of December 22, 1789...

 department in northern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

.

Population

Medieval lordship

In the Middle Ages
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages is a periodization of European history from the 5th century to the 15th century. The Middle Ages follows the fall of the Western Roman Empire in 476 and precedes the Early Modern Era. It is the middle period of a three-period division of Western history: Classic, Medieval and Modern...

 it was the site of a lordship within the County of Blois and Chartres
Count of Blois
The County of Blois was originally centred on Blois, south of Paris, France. One of the chief cities, along with Blois itself, was Chartres. Blois was associated with Champagne, Châtillon , and later with the French royal family, to whom the county passed in 1391...

. The lords descended from the counts of Breteuil
Breteuil, Eure
Breteuil is a commune in the Eure department in Haute-Normandie in northern France.-Population:...

, and often also held the position of viscount
Viscount
A viscount or viscountess is a member of the European nobility whose comital title ranks usually, as in the British peerage, above a baron, below an earl or a count .-Etymology:...

 of Chartres
Chartres
Chartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is located southwest of Paris.-Geography:Chartres is built on the left bank of the Eure River, on a hill crowned by its famous cathedral, the spires of which are a landmark in the surrounding country...

. They participated in the Norman Conquest and the crusades of the 12th century, and were cousins of the dynasty of the Kings of Jerusalem
Kingdom of Jerusalem
The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Catholic kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade. The kingdom lasted nearly two hundred years, from 1099 until 1291 when the last remaining possession, Acre, was destroyed by the Mamluks, but its history is divided into two distinct periods....

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Lords of Le Puiset

  • Guilduin, count of Breteuil, viscount of Chartres
  • Evrard I, count of Breteuil, viscount of Chartres
  • Evrard II, count of Breteuil, viscount of Chartres
  • Hugh I Blavans, lord of Le Puiset, viscount of Chartres
  • Evrard III, lord of Le Puiset, viscount of Chartres (died c. 1099 on the First Crusade
    First Crusade
    The First Crusade was a military expedition by Western Christianity to regain the Holy Lands taken in the Muslim conquest of the Levant, ultimately resulting in the recapture of Jerusalem...

    ; his brother Galeran of Le Puiset was regent of the County of Edessa
    County of Edessa
    The County of Edessa was one of the Crusader states in the 12th century, based around Edessa, a city with an ancient history and an early tradition of Christianity....

    )
  • Hugh II, regent of Le Puiset, viscount of Chartres (1096–1106), count of Jaffa (father of Hugh II of Jaffa
    Hugh II of Le Puiset
    Hugh II of Le Puiset was a crusader knight and Count of Jaffa, who revolted against King Fulk in 1134.-Arrival in the kingdom:...

    )
  • Evrard IV, lord of Le Puiset, viscount of Chartres (brother of Hugh de Puiset
    Hugh de Puiset
    Hugh de Puiset was a medieval Bishop of Durham and Chief Justiciar of England under King Richard I. He was the nephew of King Stephen of England and Henry of Blois, who both assisted Hugh's ecclesiastical career...

    , Bishop of Durham)
  • Hugh IV, lord of Le Puiset, viscount of Chartres, Count of Bar-sur-Seine (died 1189)
  • Milo IV, lord of Le Puiset
    Milo IV, lord of Le Puiset
    Milon du Puiset was a French Crusader from Champagne. He was Seigneur du Puiset, Vicomte de Chartres from 1190, and Count of Bar-sur-Seine from 1189. He after his son Gaucher, who was killed in July 1219, in the fighting near Damietta at the end of the Fifth Crusade. He was the last of the Counts...

    , viscount of Chartres, count of Bar
  • Simon de Rochefort, lord of Le Puiset, viscount of Chartres
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