Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois
Adelaide | |
|---|---|
| Died | 1120 or 1124 |
| Noble family | Carolingian dynasty |
| Spouse(s) | Hugh I, Count of Vermandois Renaud II, Count of Clermont |
| Father | Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois |
| Mother | Adele of Valois |
Adelaide of Vermandois (died 23 Sep 1120) was suo jure Countess of Vermandois and Valois from 1085 to 1102.
Adelaide was daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois.[1] Her brother was Odo I, whom she succeeded in 1085.
Adelaide first married Hugh I, Count of Vermandois, son of the Capetian King Henry I of France and younger brother of Philip I of France.[2]
In 1104, she married Renaud II, Count of Clermont.[3] By this marriage, she had daughter, Margaret of Clermont.
In 1102, Adelaide was succeeded by her son, Ralph I. Adelaide died in 1120. Since the Carolingian dynasty passed power and legitimacy through male heirs, all of whom had by now died without sons, she is considered the last member of the great Carolingian dynasty.
Issue
- Matilda (fl. 1110), married Ralph I of Beaugency
- Beatrice (fl. 1144), married Hugh IV of Gournay
- Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester (died 1131)
- Ralph I, Count of Vermandois
- Constance, married Godfrey de la Ferté-Gaucher
- Agnes (fl. 1125), married Boniface of Savone
- Henry (died 1130), Lord of Chaumont en Vexin
- Simon (died 1148)
- William, possibly married to Isabella, daughter of Louis VI of France
- Margaret of Clermont
References
- ^ Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 64.
- ^ Suger, The Deeds of Louis the Fat, transl. Richard C. Cusimano and John Moorhead, (Catholic University of America Press, 1992), 191-192 note19.
- ^ Galbert (de Bruges), The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders, transl. John Jeffrey Rider, (Yale University Press, 2013), 42 note131