Agnes of Ponthieu (c. 1080 – aft. 1105) was ruling Countess of Ponthieu from 1100. She was the daughter of Count

Guy I of Ponthieu Guy I of Ponthieu (also known in the Bayeux Tapestry as Wido) was born sometime in the mid- to late 1020s and died 13 October 1100. He succeeded his brother Enguerrand II as Count of Ponthieu. Life Guy was a son of Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu, ...

and Adela. Enguerrand, her brother, died at a youthful age. Her father, Guy, then made her uncle Hugh

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, but he also died before Guy (died 1100). Agnes became count Guy's heiress, and was married to Robert of Bellême. Their son

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succeeded to the county of

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after the death of Agnes (between 1105 and 1111), and the imprisonment of his father in 1112.

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