Ostervant

countess of Vermandois and Valois in 1182–1213 and by marriage countess of Ostervant, Nevers, Auxerre, Boulogne and Beaumont. Eleanor was the daughter of Ralph

Yolande de Coucy, wife of Robert II, Count of Dreux. Geoffrey, Count of Ostervant (1147–1163), first husband of Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois Lauret(t)a

Margaret of Bar. Their children were: John, Lord of Beaumont, Count of Ostervant. Killed in battle (11 July 1302). Henry, a canon in Cambrai, (died 1303)

four times as follows, but had no issue: 1. Godfrey of Hainaut, Count of Ostervant (d. 1163). 2. before 1167 William IV, Count of Nevers. 3. ca 1170 Matthew

of Vexin and Valois Ralph I of Gouy (915-926), also probably Count of Ostervant, from 923 also count of Valois and Vexin, possibly brother-in-law or son-in-law