Hugh I of Ponthieu, died circa 1000. He was also known as Hugo Miles. He was chosen by

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, ...

, duke of

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(not yet king), to be "advocate of the abbey of Saint-Riquier and castellan of

Abbeville Abbeville (, vls, Abbekerke, pcd, Advile) is a commune in the Somme department and in Hauts-de-France region in northern France. It is the chef-lieu of one of the arrondissements of Somme. Located on the river Somme, it was the capital of ...

". He also received Hugh Capet's daughter, Gisela, in marriage. Hugh's origins are unknown, and the date which he received his fief is only "ascertainable within broad limits" as c. 980. He is not known to have ever styled himself ''Count of Ponthieu''.

Family

He married c. 994 Gisèle Capet, daughter of

and

Adelaide of Aquitaine Adbelahide, Adele, Adela or Adelaide of Aquitaine (also known as Adelaide of Poitiers; c. 945 or 952 – 1004), was Queen of France by marriage to Hugh Capet, King of the Franks (c. 939 – 14 October 996). Adelaide and Hugh were the founders of t ...

. His son

Enguerrand I of Ponthieu Enguerrand I was the son of Hugh I of Ponthieu and Gisela, daughter of Hugh Capet. Marriages and children With his first wife Adelaide, daughter of Arnulf, Count of Holland, they had: * Hugh II His second wife has been identified as the wife of ...

was first to take the comital title after killing

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 count ...

in battle, sometime between 1024 and 1027, and marrying his widow. Thus, the counts of Ponthieu, who figure prominently in early Norman history, were even newer to their status as landed lords than the Normans. Guy of Ponthieu was also his son: ''Guy de Ponthieu, ascendant de Guyonne d'Abbeville.''

Sources

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.

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