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Herbert I of Vermandois (c. 848/850 - 907), Count of Soissons, Count of Meaux, Count of Vermandois, and lay abbot of Saint Quentin. He was a Carolingian aristocrat who played a significant role in Francia. Life Herbert was the son of Pepin of Vermandois.[1] Herbert became count of Soissons before 889 and was probably charged with defending the Oise against Viking intrusions. A contemporary of Baldwin II, Count of Flanders he had the advantage of being a Carolingian, a grandson of Pippin, King of Italy.[2] Herbert controlled both St. Quentin and Péronne and his activities in the upper Somme river valley may have caused Baldwin II to have him assassinated in 907.[3] Herbert arranged a marriage alliance to Robert of Neustria by giving in marriage his daughter Beatrice as Robert's second wife.[2] As a part of this pact Herbert also agreed to his son Herbert II of Vermandois marrying Adela, Robert's daughter by his first wife.[2] Marriage and issue His wife is said to have been Bertha de Morvois.[4] They had the following children: Herbert II, Count of Vermandois, succeeded his father.[5] Béatrice of Vermandois (c. 880-931), married King Robert I of France.[5] An unnamed daughter († aft. 943) who married Eudo, Count in the Wetterau.[5] References ^ Frederick Lewis Weis, et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), lines 50:16, 50:17 ^ a b c Jean Dunbabin, France in the making, 843-1180 (Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 95 ^ Pierre Riché, The Carolingians; A Family who Forged Europe, trans. Michael Idomir Allen (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1993), p. 236 ^ Frederick Lewis Weis, et al., Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, , 8th Edition (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004), line 50:17 ^ a b c Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band III, Teilband 1 (Marburg, Germany: J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 49 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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