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 |
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Hugo I. |
Count of Ponthieu around 1000 – around 1045 |
Hugo II |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Enguerrand I. |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Ponthieu |
DATE OF BIRTH | 10th century |
DATE OF DEATH | around 1045 |