Enguerrand I, Count of Ponthieu

Enguerrand I ( † 1045 ) was a Count of Ponthieu out of the house Ponthieu. He was a son of the lords of Abbeville Hugo and Gisela, a daughter of the king Hugh Capet.

Enguerrand inherited from his father the castle of Abbeville, the monastery cell Forest Montier and the hereditary office of advocate of the Abbey of Saint- Riquier. His land comprised about the area of the old Carolingian pagus pontivus. As the Chronicle of the Abbey of Saint -Riquier reported Enguerrand killed in 1033 the Count of Boulogne ( probably Baldwin II ), married his widow and became the first of his family to the title of Count. However, he signed back in 1026 a certificate as Graf. For Norman Duke Robert I the Magnificent entertained Enguerrand friendly relations, which culminated in the marriage of his son with the heiress of the powerful Norman border castle Aumale. In the years 1031/1032 he successfully defended from an invasion of the Norman Count Gilbert of Brionne, who was remembered with 3,000 men in the countryside Vimeu.

Enguerrand was probably married twice, with his name unknown first wife was the mother of his three sons:

  • Hugh II († November 20, 1052 ), Count of Ponthieu
  • Guido († 1074 ), Bishop of Amiens, author of the Carmen de Have Ingae Proelio
  • Fulk ( † after 1059 ), abbot of Saint -Riquier and Forest Montier

His second wife, the widow of the Count of Boulogne, should have been Adelvie of West Friesland from a clan of Gerulfinger.

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