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Vermandois Valois & Vexin Picardie, Cambrésis, Ile-de-France & Champagne Vermandois Armes : Vermandois : «Echiqueté d’or & d’azur» Valois & Vexin Sources complémentaires : Northern France Nobility, dont : & Chaumont-en-Vexin, Ham, Orderic Vitalis (vol. II, IIII et IV), Florence of Worcester, Kerrebrouck, Houts, Vermandois Sinclair, Settipani (dont «diplôme de Charles III»), Bucilly, Nicholas, Jackman, Saint-Simon, Sohier-Walincourt, Flodoard, McKitterick, Bouchard, Brandenburg, Werner («La Formation du comté de Champagne vers 950, vers 1150»), Depoin («Etudes préparatoires à l’histoire & Fontaine-lès-Gobert des familles palatines» (Thibaud «Le Tricheur»)), Newman («Cartulaires et Chartes de Notre-Dame de Homblières»), Petit («Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la race capétienne»), Pêcheur («Histoire de Guise»), Ferdinand Lot («Les derniers Carolingiens»), E. de Saint-Phalle («Les Comtes de Gâtinais aux X et XI° sècles»), Runciman («Une Histoire des Croisades»), Actes de Sainte-Croix d’Orléans, Montiérender, Molesme, Cluny, Saint-Père de Chartres, Notre-Dame d’Ourscamp, Obituaires de Sens (abbayes de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Saint-Denis Valois & Sainte-Colombe ; Cathédrales de Paris, de Chartres ; prieuré de Saint-Martin- (1299) des-Champs), Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium, Hugonis Floriacensis, Liber qui Modernorum Regum Francorum continet Actus, Vita Simonis Comitis Crespeienses, Valois Obituaire de Saint-Loup, nécrologies de Troyes, Reginonis Chronicon, Vita Hludowici Imperatoris, Annales Vedastini, Ham Hugonis Floriacensis, Historia Francorum Senonensis, Sohier- Saint- Genealogiae Comitum Flandriae, Witgeri Genealogica Arnulfi Comitis, (Eudes III) Vermandois Simon Annales Remenses, Chronique de Sainte-Bénigne, Gesta Episcorum Camaracensium, Chronicon Mosomense, De Genere Comitum Flandrensium (notae parisienses), Genealogiae Scriptoris Fusniacensis, Chronique de Robert de Torigny, Chaumont- Herimanni, Liber de Restauratione Sancti Martini Tornacensis continuatio, en-Vexin Historiae Tornacenses, Flandria generosa (et continuatio Bruxellensis), Annalmes Blandinienses, Gisleberti Chronicon Hanoniense, Héraldique & Généalogie, Vexin français J. Depoin (Société historique du Vexin, à propos des Evêques de Paris) http://sohier.free.fr/genealogie/geneafamille14.htm, Héraldique & Généalogie, Communication de Wiktor Losenko (Walincourt, Fontaine-Lez-Gobert, 12/2008), © 2004 Etienne Pattou Dictionnaire de la Noblesse (F. A. Aubert de La Chesnaye-Desbois, éd. 1775, Dernière mise à jour : 17/04/2020 Héraldique & Généalogie), sur http://racineshistoire.free.fr/LGN Contributions d’Anastasia Zagréba (09-11/2016) 1 Guintard + 833 comte en Vermandois Vermandois (cité actes de Quierzy) Les premiers comtes Carolingiens Adelard + 864 neveu de Charles Le Chauve (et aussi son oncle par Ermentrude) comte en Vermandois Baudouin «Bras de Fer» comte de Flandres investi du Vermandois (jusqu’en 879) Thierri + 893 comte en Vermandois ~ 879 fortifie Saint-Quentin contre les Normands (885) dernier comte avant la lignée carolingienne 2 Charlemagne ° 02/04/742 (Herstal) + 28/01/814 (Aachen) ép. 3) dès 30/04/771 (Aix) Hildegarde de Winzgaü (ou Vintzgau) Vermandois ° 757/58 (Aix) + 30/04/783 (Thionville) 1ère maison (caroligienne) (fille de Gerold 1er de Winzgaü et d’Imma de Souabe) une thèse différente concernant surtout 3) Pépin 1er d’Italie ° 04/773 + 08/07/810 (Milan) les premiers comtes Roi des Lombards, couronné 15/07/781 (Rome) est présentée aux pp.8 à 12 ép. 1) 795 Berthe de Toulouse (fille de Guillaume, comte de Toulouse) ép. 2) Chrotaïs ° 780 (fille de Bernard, fils de Charles Martel) 6 enfants dont : 1) Bernard 1er d’Italie ° ~797 + 17/04/818 (aveuglé 15/04, Milan) Roi d’Italie (810-818) et des Lombards, couronné 15/04/813 ép. ~813 Cunégonde de Gellone ° ~795 + après 15/06/835 (fille d’Herbert + 843, fils de saint Guilhem, et de Cunégonde) Pépin II de Vermandois ° 817 + après 840 (~878 Milan) comte de Senlis, Péronne et de Saint-Quentin ép. Rothaïde de Bobbio ° ~812 + après 858 (Nibelung) Pépin 1er ° ~845 + ~28/01/893 Her(i)bert 1er de Vermandois ° ~848/850 + ass. 902/03 ? dès 06/11/907 Bernard II Adelheid comte de Senlis et de Valois comte de Vermandois (893/896), seigneur de Senlis, Péronne et Saint-Quentin ° ~845 + avant 28/01/893 ép. Lambert ép. ? de Rennes ° ~860 ép.~872 Béatrice (alias Berthe) de Morvois (de Paris) comte de Laon Roi d’Italie, ép. Hildebrande (fille de Robert Le Fort) Empereur + 898 Pépin II comte de Senlis et de Valois Béatrice de Béranger Hildebrande de Adèle de Her(i)bert II Eilbert Eudes Gérard Her(i)bert Bernard Vermandois ° 880 dit «de Bayeux» Vermandois Vermandois de Vermandois comte de comte comte comte de Senlis, + après 03/931 comte de Senlis ° ~882 + 12/12/949 ép. Gebhard ° ~880/84 + 23/02/943 Péronne et de Roye d’Oudenaerde er et de Valois ép.890 Robert 1 et de Bayeux ép. ~918 Eudes Konradiner (ass.) comte de Ribemont Roi de France (Conradin, Udo) graz im Ufgau de Vermandois (902) (Ostrevant) ° 866 + 15/06/923 Poppa de Valois de Wetterau et de Troyes (923) (Souabe) ép. dès 21/05/907 Adèle Adèle de Vermandois ép. 919 Robert + 02/12/949 (alias Liégarde) comtesse de Senlis et de Valois (alias Rollon de France ° 895 + 931 ép. ~989 Gauthier II, comte Ragnvaldsson) (fille du Roi Robert 1er) de Vexin et de Valois duc de Normandie °870 (Norvège) + 932 postérité qui suit (p. 4) 3 Her(i)bert II de Vermandois Vermandois 3 et Adèle (alias Liégarde) de France Eudes Her(i)bert «L’Aîné, Le Vieux» Adèle (Alix) Liutgarde de Vermandois ° ~914 A(da)lbert 1er «le Pieux» Robert de Meaux Hugues de de ° dès 928 (910/11 ?) + dès 984 de Vermandois + 09/02 ou 14/11?/978 dame de ° 915/921 + 09/09/988 ° ~918 + 29/08/967/68 Vermandois Vermandois ou 993/95 ? comte de Meaux, ° ~908/10 Provins et d’Illiers-L’Evêque (27) comte de Vermandois comte de Meaux ° 920 + 962 ° 910 + 946 Provins, Troyes, Omois, Orxois (02) + 10/10/960 ép.1) 940 Guillaume 1er «Longue- (943) et de Beaune et Troyes (956) Abbé & comte et Perthois (51), comte du Palais, (Bruges) Epée» duc de Normandie (charte de Saint-Quentin ~948) ép. ~950 Adélaïde Archevêque d’Amiens Abbé de Saint-Médard de Soissons ép. 934 Arnoul 1er + 17/12/942 ép. ~954 Gerberge de Werra de Vergy ° 914 de Reims (925) et de ép. 951(Saint-Quentin) Edgiva comte ép. 2) 943/44 Thibauld 1er Hainaut-Lorraine ° ~935 + 967 (fille de Giselbert Vienne, d’Angleterre ° ~905 + 951/53 de Flandres «Le Tricheur» ° 910 + 975 + 978 (fille posthume de Gislebert de Chalon) seigneur (fille d’Edward L’Ancien, °~889 comte de Blois, Chartres de Lorraine et de Gerberge de Ham Roi d’Angleterre, et d’Elflede + 27/03/964/65 et Tours (cf p.6) de Saxe ; adoptée par Louis VI) de Bernicie ; veuve de Charles Adélaïde Archambaud Her(i)bert «Le Simple» + 929) * de Meaux Archevêque de Meaux Her(i)bert III ° 953 + 1015 Eudes Gisèle Liudolf (Léoul, Gui 1er ° après 955 ° 934 + 984 de Sens ° ~945/50 comte de Vermandois (987) ° 956 ép. Arnoul Ludolfus) + après 13/06/989 ép. 1) 07/12/954 + 28/01/995 • Eudes de Chartres + 995 ép. ~997/1000 Ermengarde + 983 de ° 957 + 986 comte de Soissons Lambert de Chalon ou 996 (inh. • Etienne + 1019/20 comte de Meaux, de Bar (-sur-Seine) ° 946 Flandres Evêque ép. Adélaïde ép. 2) 03/979 à Lagny- Provins et Troyes (~995) sans postérité + après 1035 de Noyon de Soissons + 1047 Geoffroi 1er en-Mussien) • Agnès de Vermandois ° ~940 «Grisegonelle» comte de ép. ~975 Charles de Basse-Lorraine comte d’Anjou (960) Meaux (H.III) A(da)lbert II Eudes 1er (Otton) Aélis de Soissons Renaud II Succession de Herbert III ° 938 + 21/07/987 et de Troyes entre ses deux neveux : + 1035/37 ° 979/1000 + 25/05/1045 ép. Nocher II de Soissons (H.II) (966) Herbert IV reçoit Epernay, Vertus, comte de Vermandois comte de Vermandois (1031), de Bar-sur-Aube + 1057 ou 1067 * ? Gilbert 1er Vitry et le Perthois ; (1014) moine (1018) ép. ~1027 Pavie de Ham (ou comte de Bar comte de Soissons Postérité vite Eudes de Blois : Château-Thierry, + un 04/02 le comté d’Omois et l’abbaye ép. Emma d’Aquitaine ?) ° 990 + 1058 + après 1019 ép. Aélis de Roucy éteinte Saint-Médard de Soissons Evêque de Paris Meaux postérité : (989-992) & Troyes Adélaïde (ép. Hér(i)bert IV (VI) ° 1028/32 + 1076/80/81? Eudes 1er ° ~ 1013 + ~1050 Pierre (sans doute passent 7 Guillaume, comte d’Eu fils d’Adalbert comte de Vermandois (1045) ép. 1) Gertrude seigneur de Ham dit aux Blois- et d’Yesmes + 1099) et de Gerberge) ép. 2) dès 1063 Adèle de Valois (Crépy) ° 1032 + 1080 (cf. p.16) «Sieger» & Gui II + 1068 Champagne dame de Valois (fille de Raoul III et d’Adélaïde de Bar) comte de Soissons) Adèle (Adélaïs, Adélaïde) de Vermandois ° 1050 + un 28/09 1120/24 (Meulan) Eudes II de Vermandois «L’Insensé» comtesse de Vermandois (1081) Valois et Crépy ° après 1032 + 1085 ou 1108 Héribert V (Héribert III de Meaux, II de Troyes) er ép.1) après 1067 Hugues de France dit «de Crépy» ° 1050 + 18/10/1101/02 (Tarse) dépossédé de ses droits ép. 959 ? d’où Etienne 1 + ~1020 comte de Troyes, er Meaux, Vitry et Omois qui ép. Adélaïde > s.p. croisé (1095), seigneur de Chaumont, Vermandois et Valois (fils du Roi Henri 1 ) ép. Avise de Saint-Simon Il semble avoir volontairement légué ses biens ép. 2) Renaud II de Clermont & titres à Eudes II de Blois désormais comte de Blois, postérités Saint-Simon (p.17) Chartres, Châteaudun, Sancerre et Champagne dont postérité qui suit (p. 5) Sohier de Walincourt (p.18) les possessions cernent et menacent le domaine royal ... 4 Hugues 1er «Le Grand» dit de Crépy Vermandois et Valois 4 et Adèle (Adélaïs, Adélaïde) de Vermandois 2ème maison (capétienne) Raoul 1er «Le Vaillant» Henri de Simon de Guillaume Mahaut de Béatrix de Elisabeth de Constance de Agnès de • ? Eléonore ou «Le Grand» ou «Le Borgne» Vermandois Vermandois de Vermandois Vermandois Vermandois Vermandois Vermandois de Vermandois de Vermandois ° 1085 + 11/10/1152 + 1130 + 10/02/1148 Vermandois ° ~1080 + après 1144 ° 1081/85 ép.
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