Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu explained

Hugh II of Ponthieu was count of Ponthieu and lord of Abbeville, the son of Enguerrand I of Ponthieu. Evidently, Hugh II was the half-brother of Guy, who became the bishop of Amiens; Fulk, who became the abbot of Forest l'Abbaye; and Robert. However, it is possible that both Robert and Hugh II were the sons of Enguerrand's first wife, and Guy and Fulk the sons of a later wife that Enguerrand I married when he was in his forties.

Issue

Hugh II was married to Bertha of Aumale, Countess of Aumale. They had:

• Enguerrand II who succeeded Hugh II as Count of Ponthieu
• Robert
• Hugh
• Waleran (d.1054)
• Beatrice of Ponthieu (1022–1054) was married to William of Talou, the count of Arques
• Guy I, succeeded Enguerrand II as Count of Ponthieu

Sources

• Book: The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens . Frank . Barlow . Oxford University Press . 1999 . 0-19-820758-1 .
• Book: Paul, Nicholas L. . To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages . Cornell University Press . 2012 . "When Count Hugh II of Ponthieu died in 1052, his son Enguerrand II..." .
• 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.879-637"/1160 . Brill . 2004 .
• Book: Thompson, Kathleen . Anglo-Norman Studies XLIV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2021 . The Perspective from Ponthieu: Count Guy and his Norman Neighbour . 19–34 . Stephen D. . Church . The Boydell Press . 2022 . 10.1017/9781800106314 . 978-1-80010-631-4 . "It was not a happy start for Enguerrand’s successor, his younger brother, Guy, who must have been a very young man in 1053.." .

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.