Count of Meaux
Count of Soisson
Count of Vermandois
Events
Date of Birth: about 880.
The date is given by Settipani (p. 223).
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 23 February 943.
The date is given by Baldwin, by Settipani (p. 223), and by Schneidmüller.
Place of Death: unknown.
Place of Burial: Saint-Quentin.
The place is given by père Anselme (1:49), by Schneidmüller, by Settipani (p. 223), and by Baldwin.
Relationships
(probable) Father: Heribert I, count of Vermandois.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:49), by Lewis (p. 10), by Settipani (1993, p. 222), and by most other secondary sources. Baldwin notes that contemporary documentation for the relationship apparently does not exist, but that it is nevertheless very probable. He further states that, in the unlikely case that Heribert I was not in fact Heribert II’s father, then Heribert II’s father was almost certainly one of Heribert I’s brothers.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: a daughter of Robert I, king of France.
This relationship is given by Baldwin, by Settipani (2012), and by Lewis (p. 10). Settipani (1993, p. 225) argues that her name was Adela. Lewis (p. 11) also gives this name.
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 Baldwin and from Settipani.)
Odo (Eudes) (about 915 - after 19 June 946), count of Vienne and of Amiens.
Adela (died 960) married Arnulf I, count of Flanders, in 934.
Heribert, abbot of Saint-Médard de Soissons, count of Omois, married Eadgifu, daughter of Edward “the Elder”, king of Wessex, in 951.
Robert, count of Meaux and of Troyes, married Adélaïde dite Werra, daughter of Giselbert, count of Chalon and of Troyes.
Albert, count of Vermandois, married Gerberge, daughter of Giselbert, duke of Lorraine.
Liégard married (1) Guillaume I, duke of Normandy, about 940; married (2) Thibaut I “le Tricheur”, count of Blois and of Chartres, viscount of Tours.
Hugues (about 920 - about 962), archbishop of Reims.
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).
Baldwin, Stewart. “Heribert II” in The Henry Project.
Lewis, Andrew W. Royal Succession in Capetian France: Studies on Familial Order and the State, (Harvard University Press, 1981).
Schneidmüller, B. "Heribert I" in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 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).
Settipani, Christian. “Unions atypiques dans les royaumes carolingiens” in Martin Aurell (ed.) Les stratégies matrimoniales (IXe–XIIIe siècle). (Histoires de Famille; La Parenté au Moyen Âge 14.) Turnhout: Brepols, 2013.
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).