The County of
Ponthieu (
French: Comté de Ponthieu,
Latin: Comitatus Pontivi), centered on the mouth of the
Somme, became a member of the Norman group of vassal states when Count Guy submitted to
William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy after the
battle of Mortemer.[1][2]
It eventually formed part of the dowry of
Eleanor of Castile and passed to the English crown. Much fought-over in the
Hundred Years' War, it eventually passed to the French
royal domain, and the title Count of Ponthieu (comte de Ponthieu) became a courtesy title for the royal family.
Counts and Countesses of Ponthieu
Helgaud III, also Count of Montreuil. d. 926 in battle against the Normans.
Herluin II or Herlouin, also Count of Montreuil. (926–945)
Roger or Rotgaire or Notgard, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
William I, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
Hildouin, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
William III Talvas (bef. 1105–20 June 1172), also
Count of Alençon. During his lifetime, he ceded Ponthieu to his elder son Guy II; Alençon went to his younger son John I (d February 24, 1191) who was married to Beatrice of Anjou, first cousin of
Henry II of England,
Count of Anjou.
^Odericus Vitalis. The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy, Volume 1. p.152.
^Dunbabin.France in the Making. Ch.4. The Principalities 888–987
^Thomas Stapleton, 'Observations on the History of Adeliza, Sister of William the Conqueror', Archaeologia, Vol. 26 (J.B. Nichols & Sons, 1836), pp. 349–360
^George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage; or, A History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times, Vol. XI, ed. Geoffrey H. White (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1949), p. 695
Sources
Dunbabin, Jean (2000). France in the Making 843–1180. Oxford University Press.
ISBN0-19-820846-4.
The County of
Ponthieu (
French: Comté de Ponthieu,
Latin: Comitatus Pontivi), centered on the mouth of the
Somme, became a member of the Norman group of vassal states when Count Guy submitted to
William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy after the
battle of Mortemer.[1][2]
It eventually formed part of the dowry of
Eleanor of Castile and passed to the English crown. Much fought-over in the
Hundred Years' War, it eventually passed to the French
royal domain, and the title Count of Ponthieu (comte de Ponthieu) became a courtesy title for the royal family.
Counts and Countesses of Ponthieu
Helgaud III, also Count of Montreuil. d. 926 in battle against the Normans.
Herluin II or Herlouin, also Count of Montreuil. (926–945)
Roger or Rotgaire or Notgard, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
William I, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
Hildouin, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
William III Talvas (bef. 1105–20 June 1172), also
Count of Alençon. During his lifetime, he ceded Ponthieu to his elder son Guy II; Alençon went to his younger son John I (d February 24, 1191) who was married to Beatrice of Anjou, first cousin of
Henry II of England,
Count of Anjou.
^Odericus Vitalis. The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy, Volume 1. p.152.
^Dunbabin.France in the Making. Ch.4. The Principalities 888–987
^Thomas Stapleton, 'Observations on the History of Adeliza, Sister of William the Conqueror', Archaeologia, Vol. 26 (J.B. Nichols & Sons, 1836), pp. 349–360
^George Edward Cokayne, The Complete Peerage; or, A History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times, Vol. XI, ed. Geoffrey H. White (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1949), p. 695
Sources
Dunbabin, Jean (2000). France in the Making 843–1180. Oxford University Press.
ISBN0-19-820846-4.