Count of Vermandois

The count of Vermandois was the ruler of the county of Vermandois.

Count of Vermandois
Creation date	484
First holder	Leodegar, Count of Vermandois
Last holder	Louis de Bourbon
Extinction date	1214

Beneficiary counts of Vermandois

• Leodegar, Count of Vermandois (c. 484).
• Emerannus (c. 511), son of previous.
• Wagon I (c. 550).
• Wagon II (c. 600), son of previous.
• Garifrede (c. 660).
• Ingomar, Count of Vermandois (c. 680).

Beneficiary counts of Vermandois and abbots of Saint Quentin de Monte

• Bernard, son of Charles Martel, abbot of St Quentin de Monte (now Mont-Saint-Quentin near Péronne).
• Jerome, brother of previous, count of Vermandois and abbot of St Quentin de Monte (714–771).
• Fulrad son of previous, abbot of St Quentin de Monte (after 771).
• Guntard, Count of Vermandois (771–833) and then abbot of St Quentin de Monte (till 833).
• Hugh, son of Charlemagne, abbot of St Quentin de Monte (833–844).
• Adalard, Count of Vermandois, son of Gisla, granddaughter of Charlemagne, count of Vermandois (833–864) and then abbot of St Quentin de Monte (844–864).
• Baldwin Iron Arm abbot of St Quentin de Monte (864–879).
• Teutricius (864–886) and then abbot of St Quentin de Monte (879–886) or Theodoric, Count of Vermandois (c. 876), a descendant of Childebrand, brother of Charles Martel.

Carolingian counts

• Pepin I of Vermandois, son of Bernard, King of Italy
• unknown
• Pepin II of Vermandois
• Herbert I, Count of Vermandois, also count of Senlis
• Herbert II, Count of Vermandois
• Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois, lord of Péronne and St Quentin
• Herbert III, Count of Vermandois
• Adalbert II, Count of Vermandois
• Otto, Count of Vermandois
• Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois
• Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois

Capetian counts

Coat of arms of the Capetian counts of Vermandois

• Hugh the Great, Count of Vermandois and Valois^[a][1] by marriage
• Ralph I, Count of Vermandois
• Ralph II, Count of Vermandois, son of Ralph I and Petronilla of Aquitaine
• Elisabeth, Countess of Vermandois
• Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois; died either childless or without any designated heirs, lands passed to French crown

Philip II of France added Vermandois to the royal domain.

Flag of Surrey, registered 2014. It was derived from William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey, who married Elizabeth, the daughter of Hugh the Great

Bourbon counts

• Louis de Bourbon, comte de Vermandois (1669–1683), illegitimate son of Louis XIV and Louise de la Vallière, title held by appanage.

See also

• Vermandois

Notes

1. All of Herbert's lands would go to Hugh upon Herbert's death in 1080, giving the Capetians an important foothold.^[1]