Heribert II Comte de Meaux Soissons Vermandois

Abt 880 - 943  (~ 63 years)

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• Name	Heribert II Comte de Meaux Soissons Vermandois  [1]
  Born	Abt 880	France
  Gender	Male
  Name	Heribert II Count of Vermandois
  Reference Number	8078
  Died	23 Feb 943	St Quentin, Peronne, Somme, France
  Person ID	I8078	FelsingFam
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024

  
  

  Father	Heribert I Comte Vermandois,   b. Abt 850, France ,   d. Bef 906, Vermandois, France  (Age ~ 55 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Lietgardis Vermandois Unknown,   b. Abt 860,   d. Aft 880  (Age ~ 21 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Family ID	F2399	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adela de Vermandois Robertian,   b. Abt 879,   d. Aft 920, St Quentin, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France  (Age ~ 42 years)
  Children	+ 1. Robert Comte de Meaux Vermandois,   b. Abt 931, Western Francia ,   d. 29 Aug 968, Western Francia  (Age ~ 37 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Feb 2024
  Family ID	F2397	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Vermandois-13 BIOGRAPHY FROM GENEALOGICS.ORG: Heribert was born about 879, the son of Heribert I, comte de Vermandois, and Bertha de Morvois. He was count of Vermandois and count of Troyes. He inherited the domain of his father and in 907 he added to it the Saint de Soissons abbey. His marriage with Adela (also known as Liégarde) of Neustria brought him the county of Meaux. In 918 he was also named count of Mézerais and of the Véxin. With his cousin Bernhard, count of Beauvais and Senlis, he constituted a powerful group in the west of France, to the north and east of Paris. In 923 he imprisoned King Charles III in Château-Thierry, then in Péronne. He and his wife Adela, daughter of Robert I, king of France, and his wife Aelis, had seven children of whom Adela, Robert, Adalbert and Liutgarde would have progeny. In 922 the archbishop of Reims, Seulf, called on Heribert to reduce some of his vassals who were in rebellion against him. On the death of Seulf in 925, with the help of Raoul, king of France he acquired for his second son Hugues (then five years old) the archbishopric of Reims, which had a large inheritance in France and Germany. In 926, on the death of Roger, count of Laon, Heribert demanded this county for Eudes, his eldest son. He settled there, initially against the will of King Raoul, and constructed a fortress there. Raoul yielded to pressure to free King Charles III 'the Simple', whom Heribert still held in prison. In 930 Heribert took the castle of Vitry-en-Perthois at the expense of Boso, the brother of King Raoul. Raoul united his army with that of Hugues, marquis of Neustria, and in 931 they entered Reims and defeated Hugues, the son of Heribert. Artaud became the new archbishop of Reims. Heribert II then lost, in three years, Vitry, Laon, Château-Thierry and Soissons. The intervention of his ally, Emperor Heinrich I 'the Fowler', allowed him to restore his domains (except Reims and Laon) in exchange for his submission to King Raoul. Later Heribert allied with Hugues 'the Great', duke of the Franks, and Guillaume I 'Longsword', duke of Normandy, against King Louis IV, who allocated the county of Laon to Roger II, the son of Roger I, in 941. Heribert and Hugues 'the Great' took back Reims and captured Artaud. Hugues, the son of Heribert, was restored as archbishop. Again the mediation of the German King Otto I, in Visé near Liège, in 942 allowed for the normalisation of the situation. Heribert II died on 23 February 943 without having succeeded in building the principality of which he dreamed. His succession was reconciled by Hugues 'the Great', maternal uncle of his children. It took place in 946 and led to an equitable distribution between Heribert's sons.

  
  

• Sources

  [S807] Genealogics.org.