Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois

Deceased Person

1062 – 1122

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Who was Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois?

Adelaide of Vermandois was suo jure Countess of Vermandois and Valois and the last member of the Carolingian dynasty.

Adelaide was the daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois, and Adele of Valois and of the Vexin. Her brother was Eudes, Count of Vermandois, married to Hedwig. Later became Lord of Saint-Simon by marriage.

Adelaide married firstly Hugh Magnus, son of the Capetian King Henry I of France and younger brother of Philip I of France. By this marriage she had nine children:

Matilda, married Ralph I of Beaugency

Beatrice, married Hugh III of Gournay

Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester

Ralph I

Constance, married Godfrey de la Ferté-Gaucher

Agnes, married Boniface of Savone

Henry, Lord of Chaumont en Vexin

Simon

William, possibly married to Isabella, illegitimate daughter of King Louis VI of France

In 1104, she married secondly Renaud II, Count of Clermont. By this marriage she had one daughter, Margaret, who married Charles I, Count of Flanders.

In 1102, Adelaide was succeeded by her son, Ralph I. Adelaide died in 1122 and the Carolingian dynasty died out with her.

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