Robert of Vermandois

Robert von Vermandois (* probably 910/915; † 19/29 August 967 ) was Count of Meaux from 946 and Count of Troyes from 956 . He was the third son of Count Heribert II of Vermandois and Adela of France.

He is first mentioned in 940, three years before his father's death. In 946, in connection with the distribution of the inheritance, he received the county of Meaux. Before 950 he married Adelheid (Werra), the younger daughter of Duke Giselbert of Burgundy , Count of Chalon-sur-Saône and Troyes. The marriage earned him the County of Troyes , whose union with Meaux in a later generation produced the County of Champagne .

In 955 Giselbert became a vassal of the Capetian Hugo the Great , who forced him to marry his older daughter Liutgard to his son Otto of Burgundy . When Giselbert died a year later, Odo became Duke of Burgundy on behalf of his wife at the age of twelve. Hugo the Great himself died two months later, the guardianship of his underage children, who were hardly able to take over the inheritance in full, was taken over by the widow Hadwig of Saxony and her brother Brun , the Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lorraine , both siblings of the German King Otto I.

Even so, Robert of Vermandois attacked Burgundy in 959. He conquered the city of Dijon and drove away the bishop, but was attacked and subjugated in the following year by Otto I and the French King Lothar (who was not only Otto's nephew, but also his ward until he came of age).

Marriage and offspring

Children of Robert and Adelheid were:

• Heribert the Younger (* probably 950; † January 28, 995), 980–984 Count of Meaux and Troyes

⚭ NN, 959 attested

• Adelheid (Adela, Adele) (* probably 950; † 974 after March 6th)

⚭ 965 Gottfried I Gray Jacket († July 21, 987), Count of Anjou from the family of the First House of Anjou

literature

• Patrick Van Kerrebrouck: Nouvelle histoire généalogique de l'auguste maison de France. Vol. 1: La Préhistoire des Capétiens. (by Christian Settipani ), 1993