Heribert II (Vermandois)

Heribert II. (* Probably 880; † February 23, 943 ) was the only son of Count Heribert I of Vermandois etc.

Career

After the death of his father in 900/907 he became Count of Meaux , Soissons and Vermandois, and 907 Abbot of Saint-Médard in Soissons . In the dispute between the West Franconian kings, the deposed Charles the Simple and his successor Robert I , which culminated in the Battle of Soissons on June 15, 923 , he stood at the side of his father-in-law Robert, who died in this battle, and his son Hugo the Great , with whom he drove the troops of Charles to flight.

A few weeks later, Heribert succeeded in capturing Karl by means of a ruse, whom he did not hand over to the new King Rudolf after this coup , but instead kept him as his personal prisoner in Château-Thierry and later in Péronne until his death in 929 to be able to pursue his goals better, such as the election of his youngest son Hugo as Archbishop of Reims , which he enforced in 925, as well as his own appointment as administrator of the property of the archbishopric.

When Rudolf refused him the county of Laon in 927 , Heribert had the deposed King Karl reinstated in alliance with the Norman Duke Wilhelm I , and withdrew him in 929 when he still got Laon.

In the year of Charles's death, a long-lasting feud broke out between Heribert and his brother-in-law Hugo for power in central France, in which he lost Reims in 931 and was only saved from ruin in 934 by the diplomatic intervention of the East Frankish King Henry I , and 935 even got most of his losses back after an arbitration by the German king.

When King Rudolf died in 936 without sons, Hugo pushed through the election of Carolingian Ludwig IV , the eldest son of Charlemagne, who soon got rid of Hugo's guardianship (937), which in turn led him to reconcile with Heribert to act together against Ludwig. In 940, Hugo and Heribert conquered Reims together and, towards the end of the same year, paid homage to the new German King Otto I formally and demonstratively in the royal palace of Attigny , without any far-reaching consequences.

When Heribert died a good two years later, the power of the Vermandois family in western France was lost in the dispute over the inheritance of his sons. Heribert was buried in Saint-Quentin .

Before May 21, 907 he married Adela, daughter of Duke Robert of Neustria (from 922 as King Robert I of France ) ( Capetian ) and had seven children with her:

• Odo (* probably 910, † after June 19, 946) in late 928 Count of Vienne , until 944 Count of Amiens , expelled
• Adela (* 910/915, † 960) ⚭ 934 Arnulf I the Great Count of Flanders († March 27, 964) ( House of Flanders )
• Heribert III. (Meaux) (* probably 910/915, † 980/984) 946 Abbot of St. Médard in Soissons and Count in Northern France, at the end of 967 Count of Meaux and Count Palatine , 968 Count of Troyes , ⚭ 951 Eadgifu , daughter of King Edward I . of Wessex , widow of king Charles III. of France, until 951 abbess of Notre-Dame in Laon
• Robert (* probably 910/915, † 19/29 August 967), 946 Count of Meaux , 956 also Count of Troyes , ⚭ before 950 Adelheid (Werra) († after August 967), daughter of Duke Giselbert of Burgundy , Count of Chalon and Troyes ( Buvinids )
• Adalbert I. (Albert) (* probably 915, † 8 September 987), 946 Count of Vermandois, ⚭ before 954 Gerberga (* probably 935, † after 7 September 978), daughter of Duke Giselbert of Lorraine ( Reginare )
• Ledgard (* probably 915/920, † May 27 after 978) ⚭ I around 940 Wilhelm I. Long Sword , Count of Normandy , murdered December 17, 942 in Picquigny ( Rolloniden ); ⚭ II 942/945 Tetbald I, Count of Blois , Chartres , Vice-Count of Tours († January 16, 975) ( House Blois )
• Hugo (* 920, † 962) 925 Archbishop of Reims , expelled in 932, reinstated in 940, deposed in 946

Web links

• Heribert II on medieval genealogy

predecessor	Office	successor
Heribert I.	Count of Vermandois 900 / 907-943	Adalbert I.
Heribert I.	Count of Soissons 900 / 907-943	?
Heribert I.	Count of Meaux 900 / 907-943	Robert of Vermandois