Raoul III "the Great" Comte de Valois et Amiens, Montdidier, et Vexin
- Born: 1025
- Marriage: Adèle de Bar-sur-Aube Reina des Francs 160
- Died: 8 Sep 1074, Crépy-en-Valois, église collégiale Saint-Arnou at age 49
- Buried: Crépy-en-Valois, église collégiale Saint-Arnou
 General Notes:
~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 5:22, 140:22, Herbert IV, count of Vermandois, married Adela de Vexin, daughter of Raoul III, the Great Count of Valois and Vexin. Herbert IV was the son of Eudes (or Otho) Count of Vermandois. The daughter of Herbert IV and Adela de Vexin was Adelaide de Vermandois who married, first, Hugh Magunus, and second Reinald, count of Clermont. 160
Noted events in his life were:
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Raoul "le Grand".
The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Rodulfum" as son of "Rodulfum (filii Gauteri Albus de Albamarla)" [Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1062, MGH SS XXIII, p. 793]. He succeeded (1030/35) as Comte de Valois. Raoul "le Grand" married, as her fourth husband, Aelisa de Bar-sur-Aube, widow firstly of Reanaud de Semur-en-Brionnais, secondly of Renard Comte de Joigny and thirdly of Roger (I) avoué de Vignory, daughter and heiress of Nocher (II) Comte de Bar-sur-Aube et de Vitry-en-Perthois. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Adala" wife of "comitis Veromandie (error for Valois) Rodolfi" and mother of "Symonem et filiam…Adala", but does not give her origin [Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1062, MGH SS XXIII, p. 793]. The Acta Sanctorum commentary on the life of St Simon de Valois, based on an undated manuscript of the abbey of Saint-Claude, records that "Rodulpho (Simonis genitori)" married three wives, firstly "Adela, Nocheri Barrensis ad Albam comitis filia, Notheri comitis Suessionum neptis, Archardi proneptis" who had previously married "Rainaldum de Sinemuro, Rainardum comitem de Jooniaco, Rotgerium de Wangionis ripa" [Acta Sanctorum, September VIII, p. 720].
Raoul married Adèle de Bar-sur-Aube Reina des Francs, daughter of Nocher Comte de Bar-sur-Aube and Unknown.160 (Adèle de Bar-sur-Aube Reina des Francs was born in Vitry, Pas-de-Calais, France and died in 1053.)
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