The County of
Ponthieu (, ), centered on the mouth of the
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, became a member of the Norman group of vassal states when Count Guy submitted to William of Normandy after the
battle of Mortemer.
[Dunbabin.France in the Making. Ch.4. The Principalities 888-987]
It eventually formed part of the dowry of
Eleanor of Castile and passed to the English crown. Much fought-over in the
Hundred Years' War
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, it eventually passed to the French
royal domain, and the title Count of Ponthieu (''comte de Ponthieu'') became a courtesy title for the royal family.
Counts and Countesses of Ponthieu
*Helgaud III, also Count of Montreuil. d. 926 in combat against the Normans.
*Herluin II or Herlouin, also Count of Montreuil. (926–945)
*Roger or Rotgaire or Notgard, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
*William I, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
*Hildouin, also Count of Montreuil. (dates unknown)
*
Hugh I Hugh I may refer to:
* Hugh I of Lusignan (c. 885–c. 930)
* Hugh I, Count of Maine (died 933)
* Hugh I, Viscount of Châteaudun (died 989 or after)
* Hugh I of France (c. 939–996), a.k.a. Hugh Capet, first King of the Franks of the Capetian dy ...
, also Count of Montreuil, d. c. 1000.
*
Enguerrand I, also Count of Montreuil (c. 1000 – c. 1045)
*
Hugh II, also Lord of Abbeville (c. 1045–1052). Father (by one account) of both Enguerrand II and Guy I.
*
Enguerrand II (1052–1053). Married Adelaide II daughter of
Robert I Duke of Normandy. Succeeded by his brother (or by his son) Guy I:
*
Guy I, (1053–1100) brother (or son) of Enguerrand II. Succeeded in Ponthieu by his daughter (and only surviving child):
*
Agnes (1100 – bef. 1105) b. c. 1080 in Ponthieu, France; d by 1103 Married c. 1087
Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury
Robert de Bellême ( – after 1130), seigneur de Bellême (or Belèsme), seigneur de Montgomery, viscount of the Hiémois, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury and Count of Ponthieu, was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, and one of the most prominent figures ...
and
Count of Alençon.
[George Edward Cokayne, ''The Complete Peerage; or, A History of the House of Lords and all its Members from the Earliest Times'', Vol. XI, ed. Geoffrey H. White (The St. Catherine Press, Ltd., London, 1949), p. 695] Succeeded in Ponthieu by her only child:
*
William III Talvas (bef. 1105–20 June 1172), also
Count of Alençon. During his lifetime, he ceded Ponthieu to his elder son Guy II; Alençon went to his younger son John I (d February 24, 1191) who was married to Beatrice of Anjou, first cousin of
Henry II of England
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,
Count of Anjou.
*
Guy II (?–1147). Succeeded by his elder son:
*
John I John I may refer to:
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* John ...
(1147–1191) Succeeded by his son:
*
William IV Talvas (1191–1221), also Count of Montreuil. Succeeded by his daughter:
*
Mary (1221–1251), also Countess of Montreuil.
**married
Simon of Dammartin (1213 1239) Succeeded by their daughter:
*
Joan Joan may refer to:
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(1251–1279), also Countess of Montreuil.
**married
Ferdinand III of Castile (1198/1199–1252)
*
Eleanor (1279–1290), also Countess of Montreuil.
*
Edward II of England
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(1290–1325), also Count of Montreuil.
*
Edward III of England (1325–1336), also Count of Montreuil.
*''confiscated by
Philip VI of France''
*
James I, Count of La Marche (1351–1360)
*''returned by the
Peace of Brétigny''
*
Edward III of England (1360–1369)
*''confiscated again''
*
Charles VII of France (1403–1422)
*''royal domain''
*
Charles de Valois, Duke of Angoulême (1573–1650)
*
Louis Emmanuel de Valois, Duke of Angoulême Louis may refer to:
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See also
Derived or associated terms
* Lewis ( ...
(1650–1653)
*''royal domain''
*
Charles de Bourbon, Duc de Berry
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(1710–1714)
*''royal domain''
*
Charles X of France
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(1830–1836)
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