Adelaide DE VERMANDOIS ( -1120?)

	Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois

Individual Events and Attributes

Marriage

	Hugh I Magnus of Vermandois

Individual Note

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 Adele of Valois. Her younger brother Otto became Count of Vermandois upon their father's death in 1080. However, five years later, he was disinherited 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 – after 1144), married Hugh III of Gournay

Ralph I (1085–1152)

Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester (1085–1131)

Constance (born 1086, date of death unknown), married Godfrey de la Fertι-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.

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