Vermandois

traditional county of Picardy

13 dated entries naming Vermandois, drawn from 13 separate years between 457 CE and 1181 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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5th century

457Medardus, bishop of Vermandois (approximate date)source

6th century

545Medardus, bishop of Vermandoissource

7th century

639Eligius succeeds Acarius as bishop of Doornik and Noyon. He becomes constituted guardian of the towns of Vermandois, which also include Ghent and Kortrijk (Flanders).source

9th century

817Pepin, count of Vermandois (approximate date)source
850Herbert I, count of Vermandois (approximate date)source
855Pepin, count of Vermandois (approximate date)source

10th century

928King Rudolph I loses the support of Herbert II, count of Vermandois, who controls the prison at Péronne in which former King Charles III (the Simple) is imprisoned. Herbert brings him before William I (Longsword), count of Rouen, for homage and then to Rheims as leverage to blackmail Rudolph to make him cede sovereignty over Laon (Northern France).source
939Hugh the Great, count of Paris, rebels against King Louis IV ("d'Outremer") and gains support from William I, duke of Normandy. Hugh, along with Herbert II, count of Vermandois, Arnulf I, count of Flanders and William pay homage to King Otto I (ruler of the East Frankish Kingdom), and support him in his struggle against Louis.source
953Herbert III, count of Vermandois (d. 1015)source

11th century

1085Ralph I (or Raoul), count of Vermandois (approximate date)source
1096August – Hugh ("the Great"), count of Vermandois (a brother of King Philip I), departs to join the First Crusade. He travels with a small army via the Alps to Rome. While sailing the Adriatic Sea from Bari to Dyrrachium his fleet is reduced by shipwreck. Hugh's own ship is stranded on the shore near Epirus.source

12th century

1120Adelaide, countess of Vermandois and Valois (or 1124)source
1181Philip II begins a war against Philip of Alsace, count of Flanders, over the Vermandois. He claims the territory for his wife Isabella of Hainault as her dowry. Philip is unwilling to give it up.source