Adelaide of Vermandois (died 23 Sep 1120) was ''

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'' Countess of Vermandois and Valois from 1080 to 1120. Adelaide was the daughter of

Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois Herbert IV of Vermandois (1028–1080), Count of Vermandois, was the son of Otto of Vermandois and Parvie (Pavia or Patia). Family and children Herbert married Adele of Valois, daughter of Ralph IV of Valois and Adele of Bar-sur-Aube. They had: * ...

and Adele of Valois. By 1080, Adelaide married Hugh, son of the Capetian King

Henry I of France Henry I (4 May 1008 – 4 August 1060) was King of the Franks from 1031 to 1060. The royal demesne of France reached its smallest size during his reign, and for this reason he is often seen as emblematic of the weakness of the early Capetians. T ...

and younger brother of

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. Hugh became Count of Vermandois, following Adelaide’s father's death. In 1104, Adelaide married Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis.Galbert (de Bruges), ''The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders'', transl. John Jeffrey Rider, (Yale University Press, 2013), 42 note131 By this marriage, Adelaide had a daughter, Margaret of Clermont. In 1102, Adelaide was succeeded by her son, Ralph I. Adelaide died in 1120, being the last Carolingian to hold the County of Vermandois.

Issue

Adelaide and Hugh had: * Matilda (), married Ralph I of Beaugency * Beatrice (), married Hugh IV of Gournay *

Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester Elizabeth of Vermandois (c. 1085 – 1131) (or Isabel), was a French noblewoman, who by her two marriages was the mother of the 1st Earl of Worcester, the 2nd Earl of Leicester, the 3rd Earl of Surrey, and of Gundred de Warenne, mother of th ...

(died 1131) *

Ralph I, Count of Vermandois Ralph I of Vermandois (French: ''Raoul Ier'') (d. 14 October 1152) was Count of Vermandois. He was a son of Hugh, Count of Vermandois and his wife, Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois. Ralph was a grandson of Henry I of France, while Ralph‘s mother ...

* Constance, married Godfrey de la Ferté-Gaucher * Agnes (), married Boniface of Savone * Henry (died 1130), Lord of Chaumont en Vexin * Simon (died 1148) * William, possibly married to Isabella, daughter of Louis VI of France. Adelaide and Renaud had: * Margaret of Clermont

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