Count of Ponthieu explained

The County of Ponthieu, centered on the mouth of the Somme, became a member of the Norman group of vassal states when Count Guy submitted to William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy after the battle of Mortemer.[1] [2] 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, 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

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Notes and References

  1. Odericus Vitalis. The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy, Volume 1. p.152.
  2. Dunbabin.France in the Making. Ch.4. The Principalities 888–987
  3. [Thomas Stapleton (antiquary)|Thomas Stapleton]
  4. Detlev Schwennicke,, Neue Folge, Band III Teilband 4 (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1989), Tafel 635
  5. 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