Count of Ponthieu

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Coat of arms of the Counts of Ponthieu

The County of

Latin: Comitatus Pontivi), centered on the mouth of the Somme, became a member of the Norman group of vassal states when Count Guy submitted to William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy after the battle of Mortemer.[1][2]
It eventually formed part of the dowry of Eleanor of Castile and passed to the English crown. Much fought-over in the Hundred Years' War, it eventually passed to the French royal domain, and the title Count of Ponthieu (comte de Ponthieu) became a courtesy title for the royal family.

Counts and Countesses of Ponthieu

  • Helgaud III, also Count of Montreuil. d. 926 in battle against the Normans.
  • Herluin II or Herlouin, also Count of Montreuil. (926–945)
  • Roger or Rotgaire or Notgard, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
  • William I, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
  • Hildouin, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
  • Hugh I
    , also Count of Montreuil, d. c. 1000.
  • Enguerrand I
    , also Count of Montreuil (c. 1000 – c. 1045)
  • Hugh II
    , also Lord of Abbeville (c. 1045–1052). Father (by one account) of both Enguerrand II and Guy I.
  • Robert I
    Duke of Normandy. Succeeded by his brother (or by his son) Guy I:
  • Guy I, (1053–1100) brother (or son) of Enguerrand II. Succeeded in Ponthieu by his daughter (and only surviving child):[3]
  • Count of Alençon.[5]
    Succeeded in Ponthieu by her only child:
  • Count of Anjou
    .
  • Guy II (?–1147). Succeeded by his elder son:
  • John I
    (1147–1191) Succeeded by his son:
  • William IV Talvas
    (1191–1221), also Count of Montreuil. Succeeded by his daughter:
  • Mary
    (1221–1251), also Countess of Montreuil.
    • married
      Simon of Dammartin
      (1213 1239) Succeeded by their daughter:
  • Joan
    (1251–1279), also Countess of Montreuil.
  • Eleanor (1279–1290), also Countess of Montreuil.
  • Edward II of England (1290–1325), also Count of Montreuil.
  • Edward III of England (1325–1336), also Count of Montreuil.
  • confiscated by Philip VI of France
  • James I, Count of La Marche (1351–1360)
  • returned by the
    Peace of Brétigny
  • Edward III of England (1360–1369)
  • confiscated again
  • Charles VII of France (1403–1422)
  • royal domain
  • Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême (1573–1650)
  • Louis Emmanuel de Valois, Duke of Angoulême
    (1650–1653)
  • royal domain
  • Charles de Bourbon, Duc de Berry (1710–1714)
  • royal domain
  • Charles X of France (1830–1836)

References

  1. ^ Odericus Vitalis. The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy, Volume 1. p.152.
  2. ^ Dunbabin.France in the Making. Ch.4. The Principalities 888–987
  3. ^ Thomas Stapleton, 'Observations on the History of Adeliza, Sister of William the Conqueror', Archaeologia, Vol. 26 (J.B. Nichols & Sons, 1836), pp. 349–360
  4. Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten
    , Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1989), Tafel 635
  5. ^ George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage; or, A History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times, Vol. XI, ed. Geoffrey H. White (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1949), p. 695

Sources

  • Dunbabin, Jean (2000). France in the Making 843–1180. Oxford University Press.
    ISBN 0-19-820846-4
    .
  • ISBN 1-154-27527-2. {{cite book}}: Missing or empty |title= (help
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