Enguerrand I, Count of Ponthieu explained

Enguerrand I was the son of Hugh I of Ponthieu and Gisela, daughter of Hugh Capet.

Marriages and children

Enguerrand married Adelaide, daughter of Arnulf, Count of Holland, they had:

• Hugh II

With his second wife, Adelvie, widow of Count Arnold II of Boulogne, they had:

• Guy, Bishop of Amiens
• Adelaide
• Fulk (later abbot of Forest l'Abbaye)

Enguerrand married Berta, daughter of Geurenfrid.

Enguerrand died around 1045 "at a great age."

Sources

• The Earliest Norman Counts . David . Douglas . The English Historical Review . 61. 240 May . 1946 .
• Book: Power, Daniel . The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries . Cambridge University Press . 2007 .
• Book: Tanner, Heather . Families, Friends and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, c.879-1160 . Brill . 2004 .

Further reading

• The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972.