Also known as Otto and Otton.
Events
Date of Birth: about 985 or 990.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The estimated date is given by Glocker (p. 321). Settipani (p. 237) gives about 1000.
Date of Death: 25 May 1045.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Glocker (p. 321) and by Settipani (p. 237).
Relationships
Father: Heribert (IV), count of Vermandois.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:51), by Glocker (p. 321), by Settipani (p. 237), and by Bouchard (p. 53).
Mother: Ermengardis.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:51), by Settipani (p. 237), and by Tanner.
Spouse: Pavia.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:51), by Settipani (p. 238), and by Glocker (p. 321). Tanner gives her name as Emma.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)
Heribert (VI) (about 1032 - about 1080), count of Vermandois, married Adélaïde de Valois.
Eudes.
References
Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).
Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).
Cawley, Charles. “EUDES” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).
Settipani, Christian (with Patrick Van Kerrebrouck). La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Première Partie (Volume 1 of Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France, 1993).
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).