Amiens county

The Carolingian county of Amiens existed at least from the 9th century until 1077 , when the last count went to the monastery and the county returned to the French crown as a fief. The Counts of Amiens were mostly counts of Valois and Vexin at the same time .

Count of Amiens

• Richard, 801/825 Count of Amiens, progenitor of the Buvinids
• Ermenfroi , before 895/919 Count of Amiens, Vexin and Valois
• Raoul I. (Raoul de Gouy) , † 926, 915 Count, probably Count of Ostervant, 923 Count of Amiens, Valois and Vexin, brother-in-law or son-in-law of Ermenfrois ( first house of Valois )
• Raoul II ( Raoul de Cambrai ), X 944, Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, son of Raoul
• Odo von Vermandois , son of Count Heribert II of Vermandois , 941 Count of Amiens by usurpation , driven out again in 944
• Herluin Count of Ponthieu , 944 Count of Amiens, † 945 ( House of Ponthieu )
• Gautier (Walterius) I. , † 992/998, 965 Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, probably son of Raouls I.
• Gautier II. Le Blanc , attested after 998/1017, Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, 1017 Count of Mantes , son of Gautier I.
• Dreux (Drogo) , † 1035, Count of Amiens, Mantes, Pontoise and Vexin, son of Gautier II.
• Gautier III. , † 1063, count of Amiens and Vexin, 1063 titular count of Maine , son of Drogo
• Raoul III. , † 1060, Count of Amiens and Valois, probably also Count of Crépy , brother of Drogo
• Raoul IV , † 1074, Count of Valois, Crépy and Vitry , 1064 Count of Amiens and Vexin, Vogt (avoué) of Saint-Denis , Jumièges , Saint-Wandrille , Saint-Pierre in Chartres and Saint-Arnoul in Crépy , son Raouls III.
• Simon , attested in 1069, † 1080, Count of Amiens, Valois, Montdidier , Bar-sur-Aube , Vitry and Vexin, son of Raoul III.

In 1077 Simon went to the monastery and his possessions were distributed. Valois went to his brother-in-law Heribert IV of Vermandois , Amiens the diocese of Amiens, and the Vexin to the king, who shared it with the Duke of Normandy. Bar-sur-Aube and Vitry were occupied by Theobald von Blois.

House Boves

• Enguerrand I , attested in 1069/1118, Seigneur de Boves, de Coucy et de la Fère, 1085 Count of Amiens ( House of Boves )
• Thomas , 1096/1130 attested, † before 1131, his son, Seigneur de Coucy, de Marle, de la Fère et de Boves, Count of Amiens until 1118

Counts of Amiens of the House of France-Vermandois ( Capetians )

• Rudolf I. le Vaillant (1102–1152), Count of Valois Vermandois , Amiens and Crépy , Seneschal of France 1131–1152, 1147 Regent of France

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables Volume III.4 (1989) Plate 657