Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois

Eleanor of Vermandois (* after October 14, 1152, † June 19, 1213 ) was Countess of Beaumont- sur -Oise and Saint- Quentin and mistress of Valois.

Life

Eleanor was the posthumous daughter of the French seneschal Raoul I of Vermandois, nicknamed the Brave (French le Vaillant ) ( † October 14, 1152 ) and Alix ( called Petronilla ), a sister of the French and later the British Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.

Eleanor walked a total of four marriages:

Despite her numerous marriages Eleonore had no children. Her older sister Elizabeth of Vermandois (also called Isabelle or Mabile ) was married to Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders. After the death of Elizabeth ( March 26, 1182 ) Eleanor wanted to inherit the legacy of her late sister, whose publication but Philip of Alsace refused. But the young French king Philip II Augustus supported calls Eleanor, as he hoped because of their previous childlessness, to be able to acquire their possessions after their death. In the result, there were several years of fighting between the French King and the Count of Flanders. For this war finally went Philip II Augustus emerged as the winner, and the Peace of Boves ( July 1185 ) had suffered painful losses of territory Philip of Alsace. Eleanor received the lower Valois and Vermandois, but without the Kastellaneien Saint -Quentin, Peronne and Ham. The enjoyment of the latter zones allowed the Count of Flanders to keep. When he died on June 1, 1191 Philip II Augustus realized he had acquired in the Treaty of Boves lien to the Artois and took possession of it. He now handed Eleonore Saint- Quentin and Peronne, for which they agreed to renounce the remaining inheritance. According to a regulation later Eleanor was awarded several Kastellaneien as Origny, Lassigny among others in exchange for their assignment of Peronne and the Amiénois to the king.

Eleanor was a witty and pious princess. She founded the Abbey of Parc -aux -Dames in Auger -Saint -Vincent, loved poetry and gave the clergy Renaud initiated the constitution of the Roman de Sainte -Geneviève.

1213 Eleanor died childless at the age of 60 and was buried in the Abbey Longpont (in today's Aisne ). Now the French king took the Vermandois and Valois definitely one for the crown.