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Birth:          ABT 1154 France
Death:          28 Dec 1218 
Burial:         Abbaye de Braine, France

Notes
supposedly christened 1218
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_II,_Count_of_Dreux
Robert II of Dreux (1154 – 28 December 1218), Count of Dreux and Braine, was the 
eldest surviving son of Robert I, Count of Dreux, and Agnes de Baudemont, countess 
of Braine, and a grandson of King Louis VI of France.[1]

He participated in the Third Crusade, at the Siege of Acre[2] and the Battle of Arsuf. 
He took part in the war in Normandy against the Angevin Kings between 1193 and 
1204. Count Robert had seized the castle of Nonancourt from Richard I of England 
while he was imprisoned in Germany in late 1193.[3] The count also participated in the 
Albigensian Crusade in 1210.[4] In 1214 he fought alongside King Philip Augustus at 
the Battle of Bouvines.
Marriages and Children[edit]

His first marriage with Mahaut of Burgundy (1150–1192) in 1178 ended with separation 
in 1181 and produced no children. The excuse for the annulment was consanguinity. 
Mahaut and Robert were both great-great grandchildren of William I, Count of 
Burgundy and his wife Etiennete and they were both Capetian descendants of Robert 
II of France.[5]

His second marriage to Yolande de Coucy (1164–1222) produced several children:[6]
Robert III (c. 1185–1234), Count of Dreux and Braine.
Peter (c. 1190–1250), Duke of Brittany.[7]
Henry of Dreux (c. 1193–1240), Archbishop of Reims.[8]
John of Dreux (c. 1198–1239), Count of Vienne and Mβcon.[9]
Philippa of Dreux (1192–1242), who married Henry II of Bar.
Alix of Dreux, married Walter IV of Vienne, Lord of Salins, then married Renard II of 
Choiseul.[10]
Agnes of Dreux (1195-1258), married Stephen III of Auxonne.
Yolande of Dreux, married Raoul II of Lusignan.[11]

And according to Father Richard Augustine Hay a priest that lived with the Sinclair 
family and whose stepfather was a Sinclair in his book The Genealogie of the 
Saintclaires of Rosslyn he and Yolande had a daughter named Eleanor who married 
Robert de Saint Clair Sur Epte and that they were the most likely ancestors of the 
Sinclair family and he is supported by a member of the Sinclair family Roland William 
St Clair in his book Saint-Clairs of the Isles.

Tomb[edit]

Count Robert's tomb bore the following inscription, in Medieval Latin hexameters with 
internal rhyme:
Stirpe satus regum, pius et custodia legum,Branne Robertus comes hic requiescit 
opertus,Et jacet Agnetis situs ad vestigia matris.
Of which the translation is: "Born from the race of kings, and a devoted guardian of 
the laws, Robert, Count of Braine, here rests covered, and lies buried by the remains 
of his mother Agnes."

It is also dated Anno Gracie M. CC. XVIII. die innocentum, that is, "In the Year of 
Grace 1218, on the Feast of the Holy Innocents."

Parents
____ Robert I (1123 - 11 Oct 1185)
DE BAUDEMENT Agnes (1130 - 24 Jul 1204)

Siblings
____ Robert II (ABT 1154 - 28 Dec 1218)

Marriage To DE COUCY Yolande (ABT 1164 - 18 Mar 1222)
    m. 1184 

Notes

Parents
DE COUCY Raoul (Ralph) I (ABT 1134 - 1 Nov 1191)
DE HAINAULT Agnes (1141 - 1170)

Children by DE COUCY Yolande ABT 1164 - 18 Mar 1222
____ Robert III (1185 - 1234)
DE DREUX Eleonore (ABT 1186 - Apr 1248)
DE DREUX Pierre (ABT 1187 - 26 May 1250)
DE DREUX Philippa (1192 - 17 Mar 1242)

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