The
county of the Vexin was a
medieval French
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county that was later partitioned between the ''Vexin Français'' (French Vexin) and the ''Vexin Normand'' (Norman Vexin). The count of the Vexin was the ruler of said county.
List of counts
Carolingian counts
* 753–764 Romuald, survivor of the
Battle of Poitiers (732)
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* in 790 Griffon
* 796 Riferus
* (date unknown) Regnauld
* about 851–864 Geilenus, count of
Meulan
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Nibelungs
* 864-after 879
Nibelung IV
Nibelung IV was an Frankish noble Counts of the Vexin, Count of the Vexin in the 9th century, ninth century from the Nibelungids, Nibelungid family.
Life
Nibelung was born around the year 810 to Nibelung III. He is mentioned in 843 as being in V ...
* Theodoric I, his son
* 886 Adelram III and Theodoric II, defenders of
Pontoise
Pontoise () is a commune north of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris, in the "new town" of Cergy-Pontoise.
Administration
Pontoise is the official (capital) of the Val-d'Oise '' département'', although in reality the ' ...
, nephews of Theodoric I
House of Valois-Vexin-Amiens
* {{circa, 895 – 919 Ermenfroi, also count of
Amiens
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and
Valois
* 915–926
Ralph I d'Ostrevent, also count of Amiens and Valois, son-in-law of preceding
* 926–943
Ralph II, also count of Amiens and Valois, son of preceding
* 943 – after 992
Walter I
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* Little Walter, American blues harmonica player Marion Walter Jacobs (1930–19 ...
, also count of Amiens and Valois, apparently brother of preceding
* c. 998 – after 1017
Walter II the White, also count of Amiens and Valois, son of preceding
* c. 1024 – 1035
Drogo, also count of Amiens, son of preceding
* 1035–1063
Walter III, also count of Amiens, Valois and
Maine
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, son of preceding
* 1063–1074
Ralph IV, also count of Valois and Amiens, son of
Ralph III of Valois Ralph III (; died 1038) was the count of Valois from his father's death until his own. He was the second son of Walter II, count of Valois, Vexin and Amiens
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and grandson of Walter II
* 1074–1077
Simon
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* Eugène Simon, French naturalist and the genus ...
, also count of Valois and Amiens, he became a monk and his properties were dispersed, Vexin being partitioned between the Duke of Normandy and the King of France
* 1092–1108
Louis of France, son of king
Philip I of France
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, made count of Vexin Français, later crowned king Louis VI of France
House of Bourbon
* 1673–1683
Louis-César de Bourbon (1673–1683), legitimized infant son of
Louis XIV of France
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and
Madame de Montespan
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Vexin
Vexin () is a historical county of northern France. It covers a verdant plateau on the right bank (north) of the Seine running roughly east to west between Pontoise and Romilly-sur-Andelle (about 20 km from Rouen), and north to south betw ...