Enguerrand I, Count of Ponthieu

Enguerrand I was the son of Hugh I of Ponthieu and Gisela, daughter of Hugh Capet.[1]

Marriages and children

With his first wife Adelaide, daughter of Arnulf, Count of Holland, they had:

• Hugh II[2]

His second wife has been identified as the wife of Count Arnold II of Boulogne[lower-alpha 1] and they had:

• Guy, Bishop of Amiens
• Fulk (later abbot of Forest l'Abbaye)

Enguerrand died around 1045 "at a great age."

Notes

1. Arnold II died in battle against Enguerrand

References

1. Douglas 1946, p. 149.
2. Power 2007, p. 484.

Sources

• Douglas, David (1946). "The Earliest Norman Counts". The English Historical Review. Vol. 61, No. 240 May.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Power, Daniel (2007). The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Further reading

• The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972.