- Hugh I of Ponthieu
Hugh I of Ponthieu (ca.
970 – ca.1000 ), son of Hildouin III de Ponthieu and Hersende la Pieuse de Ramerupt, countesse ofArcis . He was also known as Hugo Miles.He was chosen by Hugh Capet, duke of
France (not yet king), to be "advocate of the abbey ofSaint-Riquier and castellan ofAbbeville ". He also received Hugh Capet's daughter, Gisela, in marriage.Hugh's origins are unknown, and the date which he received his fief is only "ascertainable within broad limits" as c.
980 . He is not known to have ever styled himself "Count ofPonthieu ".Family
He married ca.
994 Gisèle Capet, daughter ofHugh Capet andAdelaide of Aquitaine .Enguerrand I of Ponthieu was first to take the comital title after killingArnold II of Boulogne in battle, sometime between1024 and1027 , and marrying his widow. Thus, the counts of Ponthieu, who figure prominently in early Norman history, were even newer to their status as landed lords than the Normans. Guy of Ponthieu was also his son.Sources
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The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio " of Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972.External links
* [http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/cgi-bin/stoyan/l3/LANG=engl/F=Hugues@I/N=de@Ponthieu@*@de@Montreuil Stoyan]
* [http://fjaunais.free.fr/h0ponthieu.htm Comtes de Ponthieu & de Clermont]
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