Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois

Adelaide of Vermandois (died 23 Sep 1120) was suo jure Countess of Vermandois and Valois from 1085 to 1102.

Adelaide
Died1120 or 1124
Noble familyCarolingian dynasty
Spouse(s)Hugh I, Count of Vermandois
Renaud II, Count of Clermont
FatherHerbert IV, Count of Vermandois
MotherAdele of Valois
Adelaide

Adelaide was daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois.[1] Her brother was Odo I, whom she succeeded in 1085.

Adelaide first married Hugh I, Count of Vermandois, son of the Capetian King Henry I of France and younger brother of Philip I of France.[2]

In 1104, she married Renaud II, Count of Clermont.[3] By this marriage, she had daughter, Margaret of Clermont.

In 1102, Adelaide was succeeded by her son, Ralph I. Adelaide died in 1120. Since the Carolingian dynasty passed power and legitimacy through male heirs, all of whom had by now died without sons, she is considered the last member of the great Carolingian dynasty.

Issue

References
  1. Jirí Louda and Michael MacLagan, Lines of Succession: Heraldry of the Royal Families of Europe, 2nd edition (London, U.K.: Little, Brown and Company, 1999), table 64.
  2. Suger, The Deeds of Louis the Fat, transl. Richard C. Cusimano and John Moorhead, (Catholic University of America Press, 1992), 191-192 note19.
  3. Galbert (de Bruges), The Murder, Betrayal, and Slaughter of the Glorious Charles, Count of Flanders, transl. John Jeffrey Rider, (Yale University Press, 2013), 42 note131
Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois
French nobility
Preceded by
Odo		 Countess of Vermandois;
Countess of Valois
with Hugh I
1085–1102		 Succeeded by
Ralph I
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