Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois

Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois
File:Adelaide of Vermandois.jpg Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois
Spouse(s)	Hugh I, Count of Vermandois Renaud II, Count of Clermont
Noble family	Carolingian dynasty
Father	Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois
Mother	Adele of Valois and of the Vexin
Died	1120 or 1124

Adelaide of Vermandois (died 1120 or 1124) was suo jure Countess of Vermandois and Valois and the last member of the Carolingian dynasty.

Adelaide was the daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois, and Adele of Valois and of the Vexin. Her brother was Eudes, Count of Vermandois (+ after 1085), married to Hedwig. Later became Lord of Saint-Simon by marriage.

Adelaide married firstly Hugh Magnus, son of the Capetian King Henry I of France and younger brother of Philip I of France. By this marriage she had nine children:

• Matilda (fl 1110), married Ralph I of Beaugency
• Beatrice (living 1144), married Hugh III of Gournay
• Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester (d 1131)
• Ralph I (d 1152)
• Constance, married Godfrey de la Ferté-Gaucher
• Agnes (living 1125), married Boniface of Savone
• Henry (d 1130), Lord of Chaumont en Vexin
• Simon (d 1148)
• William, possibly married to Isabella, illegitimate daughter of King Louis VI of France

In 1104, she married secondly Renaud II, Count of Clermont. By this marriage she had one daughter, Margaret, who married Charles I, Count of Flanders.

In 1102, Adelaide was succeeded by her son, Ralph I. Adelaide died in 1120 or 1124 and the Carolingian dynasty died out with her.

References

Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois Carolingian dynasty
French nobility
Preceded by Otto	Countess of Vermandois; Countess of Valois with Hugh I –1102	Succeeded by Ralph I