Adelaide de Crepi

• General Notes
  • Adelaide of Vermandois (1062 - 1122) 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 Alice, Countess of Valois. Her younger brother Odo became Count of Vermandois upon their father's death in 1080. However, five years later, he was disinheredited by the council of Barons of France because of his mental illness. Thus, Adelaide and her husband succeeded to the Counties of Vermandois and Valois.
    
    Adelaide married firstly Hugh Magnus, son of King Henry I of France. By this marriage she had nine children:
    
    * Matilda(1080-1130), married Ralph I of Beaugency
    * Beatrice (1082-after1144), married Hugh III of Gournay
    * Ralph I (1085-1152)
    * Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester (1085-1131)
    * Constance (1086-??), married Godfrey de la Ferté-Gaucher
    * Agnes (1090-1125), married Boniface of Savone
    * Henry (1091-1130), Lord of Chaumont en Vexin
    * Simon (1093-1148)
    * 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 1122 and the Carolingian dynasty died out with her.
    French nobility
    Preceded by
    Odo     Countess of Vermandois;
    Countess of Valois
    with Hugh I
    1085-1102     Succeeded by
    Ralph I