Enguerrand I, Count of Ponthieu

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Enguerrand I was the son of Hugh I of Ponthieu and Gisela, daughter of Hugh Capet.[1]

Marriages and children[]

With his first wife Adelaide, daughter of Arnulf, Count of Holland, they had:

His second wife has been identified as the wife of Count Arnold II of Boulogne[a] and they had:

  • Guy, Bishop of Amiens
  • Fulk (later abbot of Forest l'Abbaye)

Enguerrand died around 1045 "at a great age."[citation needed]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Arnold II died in battle against Enguerrand[citation needed]

References[]

  1. ^ Douglas 1946, p. 149.
  2. ^ Power 2007, p. 484.

Sources[]

  • Douglas, David (1946). "The Earliest Norman Counts". The English Historical Review. Vol. 61, No. 240 May. |volume= has extra text (help)
  • Power, Daniel (2007). The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press.

Further reading[]

  • The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972.
Preceded by
Hugh I
Count of Ponthieu
c. 1000 – c. 1045
Succeeded by
Hugh II
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