Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois

Adelaide
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 1120 or 1124) was suo jure Countess of Vermandois and Valois from 1085 to 1102.

Life

Adelaide was the 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 one daughter, Margaret, who first married Charles I, Count of Flanders and second Hugh II, Count of Saint-Pol.

In 1102, Adelaide was succeeded by her son, Ralph I. Adelaide died in 1120 or 1124. 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 (died 1152)
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, illegitimate daughter of King Louis VI of France

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

French nobility
Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois Carolingian dynasty
Preceded by Odo	Countess of Vermandois; Countess of Valois with Hugh I 1085–1102	Succeeded by Ralph I

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[1] 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.

[2] Suger, The Deeds of Louis the Fat, transl. Richard C. Cusimano and John Moorhead, (Catholic University of America Press, 1992), 191-192 note19.

[3] 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