The County of Amiens (also: ''Amiénois'') was a feudal state centred on the city of

Amiens Amiens (English: or ; ; pcd, Anmien, or ) is a city and commune in northern France, located north of Paris and south-west of Lille. It is the capital of the Somme department in the region of Hauts-de-France. In 2021, the population of ...

, northern

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, that existed from the

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until 1077 when the last count became a monk and the county reverted to the French crown. In 1185 the county was united with the French crown under King

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List of counts of Amiens

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(801-825) ancestor of the House of Buvinids * Ermenfroi (before 895–919) also count of Vexin and Valois * Ralph I of Gouy (915-926), also probably Count of Ostervant, from 923 also count of Valois and Vexin, possibly brother-in-law or son-in-law of Ermenfroi ( first house of Valois) * Ralph II of Vexin (Raoul de Cambrai) (926-944), Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, son of Ralph I. * Odo of Vermandois (941-944), son of Count Herbert II of

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, usurped the county in 941, ejected by royal troops in 944. * Herluin (941-944),

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( House of Montreuil) * Walter I of Vexin (945-after 992), from 965 Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, probably son of Ralph I. * Walter II of Vexin ''Le Blanc'' (before 998-after 1017), Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, from 1017 Count of Mantes, son of Walter I. * Drogo (after 1017–1035), Count of Amiens, Mantes,

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and Vexin, son of Walter II. * (1035-1063), count of Amiens and Vexin, from 1063 titular count of Maine, son of Drogo * Ralph IV (1063-1074) Count of Valois, Crépy and Vitry, from 1064 Count of Amiens and Vexin, avoué of five abbeys ( Saint-Denis, Jumièges,

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, Saint-Pierre in Chartres and Saint-Arnoul in Crépy), son of Raoul III. *

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(1074-1077), died in 1080, Count of Amiens, Valois, Montdidier, Bar-sur-Aube, Vitry and Vexin, son of Raoul III. In 1077 Simon became a monk and his possessions were distributed. Valois went to his brother-in-law

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, Amiens reverted to the French king

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while Vexin was divided between

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, Duke of Normandy, and the king of France.

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and Vitry were occupied by Theobald, Count of Blois.

House of Boves

* Enguerrand I (1085-1118), lord of Boves, Coucy and

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(1116-1118), died before 1131, his son, lord of Coucy, Marle, la Fère and Boves

Capetian House of Vermandois

* Ralph I ''le Vaillant'' (1102–1152), Count of Valois, Vermandois, Amiens and Crépy, Seneschal of France (1131–1152), Regent of France in 1147

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