of Paris the substantial Parisian suburb of La Grève. The county was a vital strategic possession between the power of Normandy and Paris, and successive counts exploited their bargaining position. The counts' position was also a dangerous one. As vassals alike of the duke of Normandy and king of France, they were very exposed when the two rulers went to war. The dual allegiance of the counts led to several episodes of confiscation of their Norman lands. It was this division of loyalty that in the end led to the suppression of the county, when King Philip Augustus dispossessed Count Robert II in 1203 during his campaigns against Normandy. Robert died an exile, and his line was not allowed to succeed to the county. List of Counts of Meulan First creation Waleran I de Chartes, Count of Meulan Waleran II, Count of Meulan Hugh I, Count of Meulan Waleran III, Count of Meulan (ca. 990–ca. 1069) Hugh II, Count of Meulan (d.1081) Robert I de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester, 1081–1118 Waleran de Beaumont, Count of Meulan, 1118–1166 Robert II, Count of Meulan, 1166–1204 Second creation Olivier le Daim (14??-1484) References Cartulaire de l'abbaye de St-Martin de Pontoise, ed. J. Depoin (Pontoise, 1895) Crouch, D. The Beaumont Twins: The Roots and Branches of Power in the Twelfth Century (Cambridge 1986). Gatin, L.A. Un village: St-Martin-la-Garenne (Paris, 1900) Réaux, E. Histoire du comté de Meulan (Meulan, 1873). Medieval Lands Project on the Comtes de Meulan Meulan