Enguerrand I (Ponthieu)

Enguerrand I († around 1045) was a Count of Ponthieu from the House of Ponthieu . He was a son of the lord of the castle Hugo von Abbeville and Gisela, a daughter of King Hugo Capet .

Enguerrand inherited the Abbeville castle , the Forestmontier monastery cell and the hereditary office of advocatus of the Abbey of Saint-Riquier from his father . His land comprised roughly the area of the old Carolingian pagus pontivus . As the chronicle of the Abbey of Saint-Riquier reports, Enguerrand killed the Count of Boulogne (probably Baldwin II ) in 1033 , married his widow and was the first of his family to assume the title of Count. However, he signed a certificate as a count as early as 1026. Enguerrand maintained friendly relations with the Norman Duke Robert I the Magnificent , which resulted in his son marrying the heiress of the strong Norman border castle Aumale . In 1031/1032 he successfully fended off an invasion by the Norman Count Gilbert von Brionne , who had invaded the Vimeu region with 3,000 men .

Enguerrand was probably married twice, with his first wife, unknown by name, being the mother of his three sons:

Hugo II († 1052), Count of Ponthieu
Guido († 1074), Bishop of Amiens , author of Carmen de Hastingae Proelio
Fulko († after 1059), Abbot of Saint-Riquier and Forestmontier

His second wife, the widow of the Count of Boulogne, was probably Adelvie von Westfriesland from the Gerulfinger clan .

Individual evidence

↑ Chronicon Centulense ou Chronique de l'abbaye de Saint-Riquier , ed. by Ernest Prarond (Abbeville 1899), pp. 218 and 242; In medieval chronicles the Counts of Ponthieu were also called "Counts of Abbeville".
↑ Recueil des actes des comtes de Ponthieu (1026-1279) , acte no 1, ed. by Clovis Brunel (1930), pp. 1-2; "Signum Angelranni comitis"
^ The ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis II , ed. by Marjorie Chibnall in Oxford medieval texts (Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 13; One of the surviving Norman knights was Herluin, who became a monk after the battle and founded the Abbey of Le Bec .

predecessor	Office	successor
Hugo I.	Count of Ponthieu around 1000 – around 1045	Hugo II

personal data
SURNAME	Enguerrand I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Count of Ponthieu
DATE OF BIRTH	10th century
DATE OF DEATH	around 1045

[1] Chronicon Centulense ou Chronique de l'abbaye de Saint-Riquier , ed. by Ernest Prarond (Abbeville 1899), pp. 218 and 242; In medieval chronicles the Counts of Ponthieu were also called "Counts of Abbeville".

[2] Recueil des actes des comtes de Ponthieu (1026-1279) , acte no 1, ed. by Clovis Brunel (1930), pp. 1-2; "Signum Angelranni comitis"

[3] The ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis II , ed. by Marjorie Chibnall in Oxford medieval texts (Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 13; One of the surviving Norman knights was Herluin, who became a monk after the battle and founded the Abbey of Le Bec .