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 Guy I:[3][4][5]
  • Guy I, (1053–1100) son of Hugh II. Succeeded in Ponthieu by his daughter (and only surviving child):[6]
  • Count of Alençon.[8]
    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. ^ Bates 2016, p. 139.
  4. ^ Musset 2005, p. 104.
  5. ^ Pohl & van Houts 2022, p. 259.
  6. ^ Thomas Stapleton, 'Observations on the History of Adeliza, Sister of William the Conqueror', Archaeologia, Vol. 26 (J.B. Nichols & Sons, 1836), pp. 349–360
  7. Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten
    , Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1989), Tafel 635
  8. ^ 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

  • Bates, David (2016). William the Conqueror. Yale University Press. ..Guy of Ponthieu, the brother and successor of Count Enguerrand II.
  • Dunbabin, Jean (2000). France in the Making 843–1180. Oxford University Press.
    ISBN 0-19-820846-4
    .
  • Musset, Lucien (2005). The Bayeux Tapestry. Boydell Press. Guy I of Ponthieu is a well-known figure who inherited the county after the death in battle of his brother, Enguerrand II, in 1053.
  • Pohl, Benjamin; van Houts, Elisabeth (2022). "History and Memory". In Pohl, Benjamin (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to the Age of William the Conqueror. Cambridge University Press. ..Enguerrand II's brother and successor, Count Guy I (1053–1100), intercepted Harold..
  • ISBN 1-154-27527-2. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help); Missing or empty |title= (help
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