•
Amaury de Nesle (c.1180), a
Patriarch of Jerusalem. •
Blondel de Nesle (c. 1155–1202), French
trouvère. •
Simon II of Clermont-Nesle (bishop) (d.c. 1313),
Bishop of Noyon and
Beauvais. ==Lordship== Nesle gave its name to an old
feudal family. This family became extinct at the beginning of the 13th century, and the heiress brought the lordship to the family of Clermont in the Beauvaisis. One of the first lords was Raoul I, Seigneur of Nesle (d.a. 1125).
Simon II of Clermont, Seigneur of Nesle through his mother Gertrude, was regent of the kingdom of France during the
second crusade of
Saint Louis.
Raoul II/III of Clermont,
constable of France, and
Guy I and
Guy II (d. 1352) of Clermont, both
marshals of France, were members of the family. The brothers Raoul and Guy I were both notable casualties of the
Battle of the Golden Spurs 1302, a French military disaster in the
County of Flanders in the
Franco-Flemish War (1297–1305). The
seigneurie (lordship) of Nesle was elevated to a countship for
Charles de Sainte-Maure in 1467 and into a
marquisate for
Louis de Sainte-Maure in 1546. It was acquired in 1666 by Louis Charles de Mailly. His grandson, Louis de Mailly, had five daughters, of whom four (
the Countess of Mailly,
the Duchess of Lauragais,
the Countess of Vintimille, and
the Marquise de la Tournelle, afterwards the Duchess of Châteauroux) were successively, or simultaneously, mistresses of
Louis XV. ==See also==