Vermandois
The Vermandois ( Flemish : Vermandland ) was a county in northern France in the Middle Ages , which originally consisted of the two burgraves of Saint-Quentin and Péronne , and thus extended within today's Picardy region in the Aisne and Somme departments . The name of the county derives from the Celtic Viromandui and their main town Augusta Viromanduorum , today's Saint-Quentin.
history
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In the 9th century, the Viromandesian county (Latin comitatus Viromandensis ) was given to the older line of the Carolingians , the descendants of that Bernhard who had risen in vain against his uncle, the Emperor Ludwig the Pious . With the Treaty of Ribemont (880), the county became a border region between the West Franconian and East Franconian empires due to its proximity to the Duchy of Lower Lorraine .
Heribert I , Bernhard's grandson and first hereditary count (lat. Heribertus Viromandensis Comes ), was killed in 902 by an assassin hired by Count Baldwin II of Flanders . His son Heribert II (902–943) expanded the property of the House of Vermandois and kept the rightful King of France, Charles the Simple , in prison for six years, until his death. His successors Albert I, Heribert III, Albert II, Eudes and Heribert IV were less important. In 1076 Heribert IV received the county of Valois as the husband of Count Rudolf III's heir . , but died a short time later and left the county to his daughter Adélaide, whose first husband was Hugo of Vermandois , a Capetian , brother of King Philip I and one of the leaders of the First Crusade .
Hugo died in Tarsus ( Cilicia ) in 1102 . The eldest son of Hugo and Adélaide was Count Raoul I (Rudolf I) (1102-1152), who married Alix von Guyenne, sister of Eleanor of Aquitaine , and had three children with her: Raoul II ("the leper") , Count from 1152 to 1167, Mabile, who owned the counties of Vermandois, Valois and Amiens from 1167 to 1183 together with her husband Philip of Alsace , and Eleanor. Due to the Peace of Boves , which he concluded with King Philip II August in July 1185 , Philip of Alsace kept the county of Vermandois until his death in 1191, which caused the French king to abandon the siege of Acre and the Third Crusade and to arrange the succession. He signed a contract with Eleanor, who got the eastern part of the Vermandois and the title of Countess of Saint-Quentin for life, while the king came directly into the possession of Péronne and the associated areas. Eleonores renounced in 1214, whereby the rest also fell to the crown, and died at least seven years later.
In 1576 the Vermandois was elevated to a duchy and a peerage .
Count in Vermandois from the House of Flanders
- Rodulfus † 896
Counts of Vermandois from the House of the Carolingians
- Heribert I. (896–900 / 907), Count of Meaux , Soissons and Vermandois
- Heribert II. (900 / 907–943), Count of Meaux, Soissons and Vermandois
- Adalbert I (Albert) (946-987), Count of Vermandois
- Heribert III. (987-1000 / 1002), Count of Vermandois
- Albert II (around 1000 – before 1010), Count of Vermandois
- Eudes (1021-1045), Count of Vermandois
- Heribert IV. (1045 – around 1080), Count of Vermandois and Valois
- Adélaide († 1120/24), Countess of Vermandois and Valois
Counts of Vermandois of the House of France-Vermandois (Capetians)
- Hugo I (Hugues I) (1087–1101), husband Adélaides, younger son of the French King Henry I , Count of Vermandois and Valois
- Rudolf I. le Vaillant (1101–1152), Count of Vermandois, Valois, Amiens and Crépy , Seneschal of France 1131–1152, 1147 Regent of France
- Hugues II. Le Moine (St. Felix of Valois ) (1152 – around 1160), Count of Vermandois etc., waived
- Rudolf II the Leper (around 1160–1167), Count of Vermandois etc.
- Mabile (1167–1183), Countess of Vermandois etc.
- Philip of Alsace , husband Mabiles, (1167–1191)
- Eleonore (1191–1214), Countess of Vermandois, Valois and Saint-Quentin
According to the treaties concluded, the western Vermandois went to the French crown in 1191, the eastern one in 1214.