Career

He was the lord of Avesnes, Condé, and Leuze from 1171. In November 1187 James joined the Third Crusade as leader of a detachment of French, Flemish, and Frisian crusaders arriving by ship on the Israeli coast near Acre around 10 September 1189. James and his men came as military reinforcements for the Siege of Acre.

The next day a search party of Hospitallers and Templars found his body on the battlefield, which was taken back to Arsuf and buried there in a ceremony attended by Richard the Lionheart and Guy of Lusignan.

Walter II of Avesnes

James, lord of Landrechies

William (died 1219)

Bouchard IV of Avesnes

Matilda, married (1) Nicholas IV of Rumigny and (2) Louis IV of Chiny

Adelaide, married Rogier of Rosoy (died 1246)

Ida (1180–1216), married Engelbert IV of Edingen

Adela, married (1) Henry III of Grandpré and (2) Ralph, Count of Soissons.