Enguerrand I was the son of
Hugh I of Ponthieu
Hugh I of Ponthieu, died circa 1000. He was also known as Hugo Miles.
He was chosen by Hugh Capet, duke of France (not yet king), to be "advocate of the abbey of Saint-Riquier and castellan of Abbeville". He also received Hugh Capet's daughter, ...
and
Gisela, daughter of
Hugh Capet
Hugh Capet (; french: Hugues Capet ; c. 939 – 14 October 996) was the King of the Franks from 987 to 996. He is the founder and first king from the House of Capet. The son of the powerful duke Hugh the Great and his wife Hedwige of Saxony, ...
.
Marriages and children
With his first wife
Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
, daughter of
Arnulf, Count of Holland
Arnulf, also known as Arnoud or Arnold, succeeded his father in 988 as Count of Frisia, which by around AD 1100 would come to be referred to as the county of Holland. He was born in 951 in Ghent and because of this he is also known as Arnulf of Ghe ...
, they had:
*
Hugh II
His second wife has been identified as the wife of Count
Arnold II of Boulogne Arnold II is a Count of Boulogne identified by Morton and Muntz (page xxxi note 7) as the one slain in battle by Count Enguerrand I of Ponthieu. Frank Barlow (page xliii note 125) prefers to retain the traditional identification of the slain coun ...
and they had:
*
Guy, Bishop of Amiens
Guy, Bishop of Amiens (d.1075) was an eleventh-century churchman, in what is now the north-east of France.
Although the genealogy of early Ponthieu and Boulogne is scanty (and the 12th century versions unreliable, because of their efforts to tie ...
*Fulk (later abbot of Forest l'Abbaye)
Enguerrand died around 1045 "at a great age."
Notes
References
Sources
*
*
Further reading
*
The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio
The ''Carmen de Hastingae Proelio'' (''Song of the Battle of Hastings'') is a 20th-century name for the ''Carmen Widonis'', the earliest history of the Norman invasion of England from September to December 1066, in Latin. It is attributed to Bis ...
of
Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972.
{{S-end
Counts of Ponthieu
11th-century French people
10th-century French people