Count of Vermandois

Count of Vermandois
Count of Vermandois
Creation date	484
First holder	Leodegar, Count of Vermandois
Last holder	Louis de Bourbon
Extinction date	1214

The Count of Vermandois was the ruler of the county of Vermandois.

Beneficiary counts of Vermandois

Leodegar, Count of Vermandois (c. 484).
Emerannus (c. 511), son of previous.
Wagon I (c. 550).
Wagon II (c. 600), son of previous.
Bertrude, daughter of previous and wife of Clotaire II, added Vermandois to the royal domain.
Garifrede (c. 660).
Ingomar, Count of Vermandois (c. 680).

Bernard, son of Charles Martel, abbot of St Quentin de Monte (now Mont-Saint-Quentin near Péronne).
Jerome brother of previous, count of Vermandois and abbot of St Quentin de Monte (714–771).
Fulrad son of previous, abbot of St Quentin de Monte (after 771).
Guntard, Count of Vermandois (771–833) and then abbot of St Quentin de Monte (till 833).
Hugh, son of Charlemagne, abbot of St Quentin de Monte (833–844).
Adalard, Count of Vermandois, son of Gisla, granddaughter of Charlemagne, count of Vermandois (833–864) and then abbot of St Quentin de Monte (844–864).
Baldwin Iron Arm abbot of St Quentin de Monte (864–879).
Teutricius (864–886) and then abbot of St Quentin de Monte (879–886) or Theodoric, Count of Vermandois (c. 876), a descendant of Childebrand, brother of Charles Martel.

Pepin II of Vermandois (c. 834–850), son of Bernard, King of Italy
unknown
Pepin III of Vermandois(c. 886–892), son of Pepin II of Vermandois.
Herbert I of Vermandois (892–907), also count of Senlis, brother of previous.
Herbert II (907–943), Count of Vermandois by marriage, lord of Péronne and St Quentin de Monte, and count of Meaux, son of previous.
Albert I the Pious (943–988), Count of Vermandois, lord of Péronne and St Quentin de Monte, son of previous. In 964 he founded the monastery of St Quentin de Insula near Augusta Veruomanduorum (now St Quentin).
Herbert III (987–997), Count of Vermandois, son of previous.
Albert II (997–1035), Count of Vermandois, son of previous.
Odo I (1035–1045), Count of Vermandois, brother of previous.
Herbert IV (1045–1080), son of previous, Count of Vermandois and by marriage of Valois .
Odo II the Insane (1080–1085), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of previous, he was disinherited by the council of Barons of France and then he was lord of Saint-Simon by marriage.
Adelaide (d. 1122) (1085–1101), Countess of Vermandois and of Valois, sister of previous, wife of Hugh I the Great

Hugh the Great (1085–1101), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, by marriage, son of Henry I and Anne of Kiev.
Ralph I the Valiant (1102–1152), also known as Le Borgne, Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of previous.
Ralph II (1152–1167), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of Raoul I and of Petronilla of Aquitaine.
Elisabeth (1167–1183), Countess of Vermandois and of Valois, daughter of Ralph I and of Petronilla of Aquitaine; wife of Philip of Alsace, Count of Vermandois and of Valois by marriage (1167–1183), Count of Flanders (1168–1191).
Eleanor (1183–1214), Countess of Vermandois and of Valois, daughter of Raoul I and of Petronilla of Aquitaine; died childless, lands passed to French crown

Philip II of France added Vermandois to the royal domain.

Louis de Bourbon, comte de Vermandois (1669–1683), illegitimate son of Louis XIV and Louise de la Vallière.

Anselme, Histoire Genealogique de la Maison royale de France, 1726.
M. Fouquier-Cholet, Histoire des Comtes héréditaires du Vermandois, Saint-Quentin, 1832.
Ioh. Mabillon, Annales ord. Sancti Benedicti. Ticinense. Lucae, 1739.
Louis Moreri, Le Gran Dictionnaire Historique, Paris, 1743–1749.