Guy I, Count of Ponthieu

Guido I ( † 1100 ) was a Count of Ponthieu out of the house Ponthieu. He was a son of Count Hugh II of Ponthieu and Bertha of Aumale.

After his brother, Count Enguerrand II, was in 1053 in the battle against her brother, Duke William II of Normandy, like Guido took over the county of Ponthieu. He led the fight continued as an ally of King Henry I of France, but fell in the battle of Mortemer 1054 in the captivity of the Norman duke. His brother Waleran was killed in this battle. Guido spent two years in his Norman dungeon. During this time, took his uncle, Bishop Guy of Amiens, the true rule in Ponthieu. Only after Guido get ready showed a vassal of Duke William to be, he was released from captivity. He also had to abandon the castle Aumale, to which he could log inheritance.

As the Anglo-Saxon Earl of Wessex, Harold Godwinson, suffered on his trip to Normandy in 1064 off the coast of Ponthieu shipwreck, Guido took him prisoner and brought him first to the castle of Abbeville. According to the report of Wace ( Roman de Rou ) Guido the Earl treated with great courtesy. To remove him from the access of Duke William, he spent the Earl afterwards in the castle of Beaurain and gave him first to the Duke continued, after he had paid him a large ransom. Guido gave the Earl Harald the river Eaulne to the Duke. On the Bayeux Tapestry, this episode is described in detail, Guido appears here as " WIDO ".

From his marriage with the lady Adele Guido had several children, including a son Enguerrand, but still died before him, so his eldest daughter was the heiress of Ponthieu.

• Agnes (after 1110), ∞ with Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury
• Ida, Abbess of Saint- Austr Eberte to Montreuil
• Mathilde, testified in 1100

Guido was buried after his death in 1100 he founded the priory of Saint- Pierre in Abbeville.