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.
[2] 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.
[3] He was part of the Council of Acre in June 1148 and was one of many suitors for Constance of Antioch following her husband's death in 1149.
[4] Yves married Yolande, a daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut, and his wife Alice of Namur.
Upon the death of Yves, his nephew Conon became Count of Soissons.