Luitgardis DE VERMANDOIS

Characteristics

Type	Value	Date	Place	Sources
name	Luitgardis DE VERMANDOIS			[1]

Events

Type	Date	Place	Sources
death	after 985		[1]
birth	before 925		[1]
marriage	between 943 and 944		[2]

Parents

Heribert DE VERMANDOIS

Adela DE FRANCE

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Marriage	??spouse_en_US??	Children
between 943 and 944	Thibaut DE BLOIS	Hugues DE BLOIS Eudes DE BLOIS about 953 Emma DE BLOIS Thibout DE BLOIS

Sources

1	Foundation for Medieveal Geneology, Northern France, Nobility - Chapter 13: Comtes de Vermandois Author: Charles Cawley Publication: Name: Medeival Lands; Location: Oak House, Vowchurch, Hereford, HR20RB, England; Date: 2001-2011;
	The nobility shown here under "Northern France" is grouped togetherfor geographical convenience. The area never developed as a singlepolitical entity at any time during the medieval period, for thereasons suggested below. The territory corresponds approximately to the present-day Frenchdépartements of Pas-de-Calais, Somme, Nord and Aisne, as well as whatwas the non-imperial part of the county of Flanders. In the middlemedieval period, the area was bordered to the south-west by the duchyof Normandy, to the south by the domaine royale of the Capetian kingsof France, to the south-east by the county of Champagne and to theeast by imperial territory. Ecclesiastically, it fell within theprovince of Reims, and was divided into the bishoprics of Amiens,Arras, Cambrai (an archbishopric from the 16th century, when it wassubdivided into the bishoprics of Antwerp and Mechelen), Laon, Noyon,Thérouanne (later divided into the bishoprics of Boulogne, Ypres andSt Omer) and Tournai (from which Bruges and Gent were established asseparate bishoprics in the 16th century)[1]. The area was dominated in the north by the counts of Flanders and inthe south by the counts of Vermandois. The balanced rivalry betweenthese two counties appears to have been the major factor whichprevented the emergence of a single political force in northern Franceduring the early 10th century. The county of Flanders was formedaround Bruges in 863, when Charles II "le Chauve" King of the WestFranks granted the pagus flandrensis to Baudouin, who had earlierabducted the king's daughter. The grant was subsequently expanded toinclude Ternois, the land of Waas and the lay abbacy of St Pieter ofGent[2]. Baudouin II Count of Flanders expanded the family'sterritory into Courtrai, Boulogne and Ternois. The county ofVermandois was formed by Héribert, a descendant of the earlyCarolingian kings of Italy whose direct ancestors had establishedthemselves as counts in the area north of Paris. Héribert acquiredVermandois and Saint-Quentin in 896, followed by Soissons in 898[3].His son count Héribert [II] acquired control over the archbishopricof Reims by engineering the appointment of his infant son asarchbishop in 925. He also acquired Amiens, the Vexin and Artois,although these territories were disputed by Arnoul I Count ofFlanders. The rivalry between the counts of Vermandois and the countsof Flanders was triggered in 896 by the murder of the brother of CountBaudouin II by the forces of count Héribert [I] and persistedthroughout the first half of the 10th century. The two power-basesappear to have been evenly balanced, the result being that neither wasable to dominate the whole of northern France. A second factor which must have rendered domination by either sidemore difficult was that the territory of the bishopric of Cambrai,located directly north of Vermandois and south of Flanders, had beenallocated to Lotharingia under the 843 treaty of Verdun, while therest of northern France fell within the kingdom of the West Franks.Cambrai therefore represented a political barrier to either sideextending control into the eastern part of the other's territory.Both the Flanders and Vermandois families lost political power duringthe early part of the second half of the 10th century. The territoryof the Vermandois family was partitioned after the death of countHéribert [II] in 943 to provide appanages for his three sons, none ofwhom appears to have inherited their father's energy. In thefollowing century, most of the county of Vermandois passed byinheritance into the domaine royale of the Capetian kings. InFlanders, count Arnoul was succeeded in 965 by his infant grandson,under the guardianship of the French king Lothaire who was able totake control of Artois and Ostrevant, thereby establishing a permanentbarrier to any further southward expansion by Flanders. The county of Boulogne on the North Sea coast developed under thecontrol of the counts of Flanders. The history of the county beforeits capture by Flanders has not been traced. The first Flemish countof Boulogne was Adalolf, who succeeded his father Baudouin II Count ofFlanders in Boulogne in 918. Adalolf and his immediate successorsacquired control over Thérouanne, Fauquemberghes and Saint-Omer in thenorthern part of Ternois, but these territories were seized byBaudouin IV Count of Flanders in the early 1000s. The countyBoulogne was held by the same family until the 1120s, when it passedby marriage to a branch of the counts of Blois. A younger brother ofEustache II Comte de Boulogne briefly held the county of Lens in themid-11th century, before it was incorporated into Flanders. During the late 9th and 10th centuries counties are recorded atCambrai (see LOWER LOTHARINGIAN NOBILITY) and Laon, to the north andeast of Vermandois. The details of the history of the county of Laonare obscure. Roger II Count of Laon was dispossessed in 931. The area around Ponthieu, extending approximately from the riverCanche in the north to the river Somme in the south, was conquered byArnoul I Count of Flanders in [940]. It developed into a separatecounty in the early 11th century, based around territory which wasgranted by Hugues "Capet" King of France to Hugues, avocat deSaint-Riquier, who had married the king's daughter some time in the980s. The county was inherited by the Norman family ofBellême/Montgommery in the late 11th century, and by the family of thecounts of Dammartin in the early 1220s. A disputed inheritanceresulted in the county passing into English control in 1281. The county of Guines was founded in 928 by the Viking Siegfried in thenorthern coastal part of the county of Boulogne, his descendants inthe male line continuing to rule the county until 1137, according tothe 12th century Historia Comitum Ghisnensium although there aredoubts concerning the accuracy of this source as discussed furtherbelow. Thereafter, the county passed by marriage to the family of thechâtelain (burchgraeve in Flemish) of Gand/Gent who remained incontrol until the late 13th century. In the southern part of Ternois, the county of Saint-Pol was formed inthe early 11th century as a fiefdom of the county of Boulogne. Thecounty remained in the same family until the late 12th century when itpassed by marriage to the Seigneurs de Châtillon-sur-Marne, a noblefamily from Champagne. Families of the lesser nobility also included in this document includethe Châtelains de Bourbourg, from the early 12th century, theChâtelains de Douai (from the mid-11th century, who also acquired thechâtellenie of Cambrai by marriage), the Seigneurs de Guise, and theSeigneurs de Chaumont-en-Vexin (descendants of the counts ofVermandois). The counts of Flanders are shown in the document "FLANDERS, Counts",and the nobility associated with them in "FLANDERS, Nobility".
2	Foundation for Medieveal Geneology, Central France: Chapter 1: Comtes de Blois Author: Charles Cawley Publication: Name: Medeival Lands; Location: Oak House, Vowchurch, Hereford, HR20RB, England; Date: 2001-2011;
	As in the case of the northern part of France, the central part of thecountry experienced little political unity throughout the medievalperiod. The nobility shown here under "Central France" is thereforegrouped together mainly for geographical convenience. The area lies to the south of Paris, bordered to the west by thecounties of Anjou and Maine, to the south by the county of Poitou andduchy of Aquitaine, and to the east by the county of Champagne and theduchy of Burgundy. It represented a jurisdictional middle groundwithin these mainly stable counties and duchies which, from earlyMerovingian times, was sliced along different lines by the competingmembers of the dynasty. After the death in 511 of King Clovis I, thearea achieved political unity for the only time in its history as partof the larger territory which fell to his son King Chlodomer whoestablished his capital at Orléans and controlled most of the lowerLoire valley from the coast, including Tours, Chartres, Sens andAuxerre[1]. This unity was short-lived as, after Chlodomer was killedin 524, his brothers divided his territories between themselves. Thecentral area, covering Tours, Orléans and the future county of Blois,was amalgamated with the northern territories ruled by King Childebertfrom Paris, while the eastern part was linked to Burgundy under KingTheoderich. At the 561 partition after the death of King Clotaire,the border changed, the western part of the area, which mainlyconsisted of Blois, remained with the kingdom of Paris under KingCharibert while Orléans was joined to the Burgundian kingdom ruled byKing Gontran[2]. These divisions were perpetuated with theestablishment of the definitive boundaries of the kingdoms ofAustrasia and Neustria, with the additional change by which the areato the south of Orléans was incorporated into Neustria. With theCarolingian partition under the treaty of Verdun in 843 the whole areawas firmly within the kingdom of the West Franks. These partitions echo the experience of the northern part of France,and also that of the area covered by the future county of Champagne.It is suggested that this early failure to establish politicalcohesion had a profound effect on the later development of all theseareas, contrasting sharply with the relative stability and sense ofregional unity which was achieved by other parts of France during themiddle medieval period. Another factor which applied particularly inthe case of central France was the division of ecclesiasticaljurisdiction, which inevitably had political repercussions.Ecclesiastical power was split three ways in the area. Tours fellwithin the archbishopric of the same name. The bishoprics of Bloisand Orléans were within the province of Sens, while the archbishopricof Bourges retained control over the territory around that town. The counties covered in this part of central France were Chartres andChâteaudun in the north-west and, in the southern part from west toeast, Blois, Bourges, Tours, Orléans, Gâtinais, and Sancerre. Thehistory of each county developed in markedly different ways, asdiscussed in more detail in the introductions to each chapter of thepresent document. The county of Blois remained in the same familyfrom the early 10th to the early 13th centuries. The family expandedits territories to include the counties of Tours, Chartres andChâteaudun in the mid-10th century. They acquired Sancerre in theearly 11th century, although this was split off in 1152 to provide anappanage for a junior branch of the family. The acquisition by thecounts of Blois of the county of Troyes, some time in the 1020s,represented the start of a shift in their centre of activities towardsthe area of Champagne. In 1231, the county of Blois was inherited bythe Seigneurs de Châtillon-sur-Marne, who were already also counts ofSaint-Pol in northern France. The history of the county of Bourgeshas not been traced after the mid-9th century, but it is supposed thatit was incorporated into the domaine royale at an early stage. Thegeographically extensive county of Orléans, at the heart of the area,was incorporated into the domaine royale of the Capetian kings withthe accession of Hugues "Capet" in 987[3]. The counts of Gâtinaisinherited the county of Anjou in 1067, an unforeseen result of adynastic marriage in [1035]. However, Gâtinais was transferred to thedomaine royale shortly afterwards, as a result of the war between thebrothers Geoffroy III "le Barbu" Comte d'Anjou and Foulques IV "leRechin"[4]. Other families set out in this document include the Sires de Sully,whose lordship passed by marriage in the early 12th century to acollateral line of the counts of Blois, the Seigneurs d´Amboise whoseterritory lay within the county of Tours, the Seigneurs de Frétevalwithin the county of Chartres, the Seigneurs de Baugency within thecounty of Orléans, the Seigneurs de Château-Landon and the Vicomtes deFessard whose territories originally were fiefdoms of the county ofGâtinais, and the Seigneurs de Vierzon whose territory lay within theformer county of Bourges.

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