Angerrand I ( fr. Enguerrand I de Ponthieu ; died around 1045 ) - Count of Pontier .
| Angerrand I de Pontier | ||||
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| Birth | ||||
| Death | OK. 1045 | |||
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| Father | Hugo I de Pontier | |||
| Mother | Gisela | |||
| Spouse | Adelaide Friesian | |||
| Children | and | |||
Biography
The son of Hugo d'Abville and Gisela, daughter of King Hugo Capet .
He inherited from his father the city of Abbeville , the wealth of the monastery of Forestmontieu and the rights that gave the title of advocatus of the Abbey of Saint-Ricchier .
According to the chronicle of the abbey of Saint-Riquier, Angerrand I in 1033 during the civil strife, killed Count Baldwin II of Boulogne , after which he married his widow Adelaide of Frisia. In order to have the same status with his wife, he accepted the title of count (however, this title is already mentioned in the certificate of 1026).
In 1031 or 1032, he repelled the invasion of his possession by a three thousandth detachment of Normans led by Count Gilbert de Brionne . With the Duke of Normandy Robert the Devil, Angerran de Pontier maintained a good relationship.
Family
Angerran I was married twice. From the first wife, whose name is not known, he had three sons:
- Hugo II - Count of Pontieu and Montreuil, a participant in the Battle of Hastings .
- Guido (d. 1074), Bishop of Amiens
- Fulco (d. After 1059) - abbot of Saint-Riquier and Forestmontier
The second wife is the aforementioned Adelaide of Friesia (d. 1045) from the Gerulfing clan, daughter of Arnulf of Holland and Luitgard of Luxembourg , Count of West Frisia .
Literature
- Chronicon Centulense ou Chronique de l'abbaye de Saint-Riquier, hrsg. von Ernest Prarond (Abbeville 1899), S. 218 and 242; In mittelalterlichen Chroniken wurden die Grafen von Ponthieu auch "Grafen von Abbeville" genannt.
- Recueil des actes des comtes de Ponthieu (1026-1279), acte no 1, hrsg. von Clovis Brunel (1930), S. 1-2; "Signum Angelranni comitis"
- The ecclesiastical history of Orderic Vitalis II, hrsg. von Marjorie Chibnall in Oxford medieval texts (Oxford University Press, 1990), S. 13; Einer der überlebenden normannischen Ritter war Herluin, welcher nach der Schlacht Mönch wurde und die Abtei Le Bec gründete.