See also
| Husband: | Enguerrand II (c. 1022-1053) | |
| Wife: | Adelaide + of NORMANDY (1026-1090) | |
| Name: | Enguerrand II | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | Hugh II + (1005-1052) | |
| Mother: | Bertha + of AUMALE (1005- ) | |
| Birth | 1022 (est) | |
| Occupation | Count of Ponthieu and Lord of Abbevill | |
| Title | frm 1052 to 1053 (age 29-31) | Count of Ponthieu and Lord of Abbevill |
| Death | 25 Oct 1053 (age 30-31) | |
| Name: | Adelaide + of NORMANDY | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Robert I * + (1000-1035) | |
| Mother: | Herleva * + of FALAISE (1003-1078) | |
| Birth | 1026 | Calvados, Normandy, France |
| Occupation | Countess of Aumale | |
| Death | 1090 (age 63-64) | |
Enguerrand II was the son of Hugh II count of Ponthieu. He assumed the county upon the death of his father on November 20, 1052.
The Ponthievin alliance with duke William of Normandy had earlier been secured by the marriage of Enguerrand's sister, to duke William's uncle, William of Talou. Enguerrand was married to duke William's sister, Adelaide, by whom he had 3 children. However, because of some consanguinity there, or another infraction not now known, Enguerrand was excommunicated at the papal council held at Reims in October 1049.
William of Talou had built a strong castle at Arques, and from it (in 1053) he defied his nephew the youthful duke of Normandy: as "family", the comital house of Ponthieu supported the rebellion.
Duke William put Arques under siege, and then remained mobile with another force in the countryside nearby. He was aware that Normandy was being threatened by the armies of King Henry of France — who wanted to bring his young, former vassal to heel; and that Normandy's erstwhile allies from Ponthieu would also be coming to break the siege of Arques. Young count Enguerrand led a Ponthievin army of relief into the Talou and arrived first: but duke William successfully ambushed them on October 25, 1053 and Enguerrand was killed (legend says, within sight and sound of the walls of Arques, from which his sister witnessed the demise of her brother). Upon learning of this serious reverse, the vacillating Henry withdrew his forces at once back across the Norman border. William of Talou was compelled to surrender Arques and was banished for life. (Alternatively, the story goes that king Henry reinforced Arques, and duke William lured part of the French army, including Enguerrand and the Ponthievins, away by a feigned flight, then turned on them and won a battle: Henry then withdrew, forcing the surrender of Arques not long after.)
Enguerrand's only son (or possibly his brother by one account), Guy I became count of Ponthieu in his place.1
Adelaide of Normandy (or Adeliza) (c. 1026 in Calvados, France[citation needed] - c. 1090) was the sister (or half-sister) of William the Conqueror.
She was the daughter of Robert the Magnificent, Duke of Normandy. Different chroniclers writing in the Gesta Normannorum Ducum call her sister of William the Conqueror either by the same mother or by different mothers. She is usually said to be daughter of Herleva.[1]
Adelaide married three times; first Enguerrand II of Ponthieu (died 1053) by whom she had issue; second Lambert II, Count of Lens (died 1054); and third in 1060 Odo II of Champagne son of the Count of Troyes, (Odo IV of Troyes), by whom she had issue Stephen, Count of Aumale. By Lambert she had a daughter, Judith of Lens, who married Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (executed 1076). Their daughter, Maud, 2nd Countess of Huntingdon, took for her second husband King David I of Scotland.
She became Countess of Aumale when her husband Odo inherited the title of Count in 1069.
| 1 | Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, "The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Armiens" (Oxford at the clarendon Press, 1972). |