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Hugh, Count of Vermandois

Hugh (1057 – October 18, 1101),[1] called the Great (French: Hugues le Grand, Latin: Hugo Magnus) was the first count of Vermandois from the House of Capet. He is known primarily for being one of the leaders of the First Crusade. His nickname Magnus (greater or elder) is probably a bad translation into medieval Latin of an Old French nickname, le Maisné, meaning "the younger", referring to Hugh as younger brother of King Philip I of France.[a]

For the bishop, see Hugh of Vermandois (bishop).

Hugh I

1085–1101

Odo I

Ralph I

1057

(1101-10-18)18 October 1101 (aged 44)
Tarsus, Cilicia
(modern-day Tarsus, Mersin, Turkey)

Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois

Elizabeth, Countess of Leicester
Ralph I, Count of Vermandois

Capet

Henry I, King of France

Anne of Kiev

Early years[edit]

Hugh was a younger son of King Henry I of France and Anne of Kiev and younger brother of Philip I.[3] He became the first Capetian count of Vermandois after his mentally deficient brother-in-law, Odo, was disinherited. In 1085, Hugh helped William the Conqueror repel a Danish invasion of England.[4]

Matilda, who married Ralph I of Beaugency;

[13]

(died 1138), [15] married, firstly, Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester[16] and secondly, William de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey

Elizabeth, Countess of Leicester

Beatrice (fl. 1144), who married Hugh IV of Gournay

(died 1152), married, firstly, Eleanor of Champagne [17] and secondly, Petronille of Aquitaine[17]

Ralph I, Count of Vermandois

Constance, who married Godfrey de la Ferté-Gaucher

Agnes (fl. 1125), who married [18]

Boniface del Vasto

Henry, Lord of Chaumont en Vexin (died 1130)

Simon (died 1148)

William (died c. 1096).

Hugh married Adelaide of Vermandois,[13] the daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois.[14] The couple had the following nine children.

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