Liégard de Vermandois

Also known as Liutgardis and Leutgarde.

Events

Date of Birth: before 925.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Settipani (p. 227).

Date of Death: 14 November, after 985.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Cawley. Settipani (p. 227) gives after 977. Le Jan (p. 376) gives "sans doute peu de temp après le mariage d'Eudes avec Berte en 980."

Place of Burial: Chartres, l'abbaye de Saint-Père.

The place is given by Settipani (p. 228).

Relationships

Father: Heribert II de Vermandois.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:49), by Settipani (p. 227), by Bouchard (p. 53), and by Baldwin.

Mother: a daughter of Robert I, king of France.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:49), by Settipani (p. 227), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Guillaume I, count of Rouen.

This relationship is given by Bachrach (p. 267) and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Thibaut “le Tricheur”.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:836), by Settipani (p. 227), by Bouchard (p. 53), and by Baldwin.

Children (by Thibaut):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below is from Cawley.)

Thibaut de Blois (died about 960 - 962).

Hugues de Blois (died 2 January 986). Archbishop of Bourges.

Eudes I, count of Blois, married Berthe, daughter of Conrad I, king of Burgundy.

Emma de Blois married Guillaume IV d’Aquitaine.

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).

Bachrach, Bernard S. Fulk Nerra, the Neo-Roman Consul, 987-1040: A Political Biography of the Angevin Count, (University of California Press, 1993).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Heribert II” in The Henry Project.

Bouchard, Constance Brittain. “Those of My Blood”: Constructing Noble Families in Medieval Francia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001).

Cawley, Charles. “Luitgardis ” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Le Jan, Régine. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VII^e - X^e siècle): essai d’anthropologie sociale (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995).

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).