Yves II, Count of Soissons
Yves II le Vieux of Nesle (Ives, Ivo) (d. 1178), son of Raoul I, Seigneur of Nesle, and his wife Rainurde (Ermentrude) of Eu-Soissons. Seigneur of Nesle, Count of Soissons. Yves II was from the third generation of the House of Nesle founded by his grandfather Yves I. Yves was entrusted with the County of Soissons when his distant cousin Renaud III became a monk in 1141.[1]
Following the preaching of Bernard of Clairvaux at Vézelay in 1146, Yves joined Louis VII and a host of French nobles in the Second Crusade. He was part of the Crusade Concilium in Acre in June 1148.
Yves married Yolande, a daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut, and his wife Alice of Namur. They had no children.
Upon the death of Yves, his nephew Conon became Count of Soissons.
Sources
Runciman, Steven, A History of the Crusades, Volume Two: The Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Frankish East, 1100-1187, Cambridge University Press, London, 1952
Riley-Smith, Jonathan, The First Crusaders, 1095-1131, Cambridge University Press, London, 1997
Gislebertus of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, translated by Laura Napran, The Boydell Press, Suffolk, 2005