Robert of Vermandois

Robert of Vermandois (* probably 910/915, . † 19./29 August 967 ) was Count of Meaux and from 946 from 956 Count of Troyes. He was the third son of Count Heribert II of Vermandois and Adela of France.

He is first mentioned in 940, three years before his father's death. In the year 946, in connection with the division of the estate, he received the County of Meaux. 950 Before he married Adelheid ( Werra), the younger daughter of the Duke Giselbert of Burgundy, Count of Chalon -sur -Saône and Troyes. The marriage brought him the county of Troyes, whose union with Meaux in a later generation the county Champagne brought forth.

In the year 955 Giselbert was a vassal of the Kapetingers Hugo the Great, who forced him to marry his elder daughter Liutgard with his son Otto of Burgundy. As Giselbert died a year later, Odo was twelve years old Duke of Burgundy in the name of his wife. Hugo the Great himself died two months later, the guardianship of his minor children, who were hardly in a position to take up the legacy in full, took over the Hadwig of Saxony widow and her brother Brun, the Archbishop of Cologne and Duke of Lorraine, both siblings of the German king Otto I

Nevertheless, Robert attacked Burgundy of Vermandois in 959. He captured the city of Dijon and chased the bishop, but was in the following year of Otto I and the French King Lothar ( not only Otto's nephew, but also to the age of eighteen whose ward was ) attacked and subjected.

Marriage and issue

Children of Robert and Adelheid were:

• Heribert the Younger ( probably * 950, † 28 January 995 ), 980-984 Count of Meaux and Troyes

• Adelheid ( Adela, Adele ) (* probably 950, † 974 after 6 March )