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Personal data Albert I "de Vrome" van Vermandois 

• Nickname is de Vrome.
• He was born about 931.
• Title: Graaf, van Vermandois
• He died on September 8, 987 in Saint-Quentin, Hauts-de-France, Frankrijk.
• A child of Herbert II van Vermandois and Adelheid de Bourgogne

Household of Albert I "de Vrome" van Vermandois

He is married to Gerberga van Lotharingen.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Herbert III van Vermandois  ± 953-1015 
2. Otto I van Chiny  ± 955-± 987 

Notes about Albert I "de Vrome" van Vermandois

ADALBERT [Albert] [I], son of HERIBERT [II] Comte de Vermandois & his wife Adela [Capet] (-8 Sep 987). Flodoard names "Adalbertus filius Heriberti"[250]. Under the division of territories organised after his father's death in 943, he became Comte de Vermandois. Comte Albert re-established the abbey of Homblières and built Mont-Saint-Quentin[251]. When his brother Hugues was deposed as archbishop of Reims in 948, Comte Albert gave up the family's struggle with Louis IV "d'Outremer" King of France and swore allegiance to the king. He opposed the election of Hugues Capet as king of France, but eventually submitted[252]. A list of members of the Cathedral of Paris lists (in order) "Albertus comes, Girberga comitissa, Harbertus, Otto, Lewultus, Girbertus, Gondrada, Ricardus, Harbertus comes, Walerannus laicus, Gisla…", the first four individuals named apparently being Comte Albert, his wife and three sons, and the last named maybe his brother or nephew[253].

[m firstly HERESINDE, daughter of ---. According to the Histoire de Guise, Comte Albert constructed the abbey of Saint-Michel at Rochefort in 945 "d'accord avec la comtesse Hérésinde sa femme", while in 947 Hérésinde founded the nearby Benedictine convent of Bucilly[254]. The source assumes that this refers to Albert Comte de Vermandois, but his supposed first marriage is not mentioned by Settipani[255]. According to the introduction to the Cartulaire de l'abbaye de Bucilly, Bucilly was founded by "Gerberge, femme d'Albert I Comte de Vermandois" although it notes that "certains auteurs ont voulu faire remonter [sa foundation] à la libéralité de Hersinde femme d'Herbert Comte de Vermandois morte en 901"[256]. The Cartulaire reproduces a French translation of a declaration by Barthélemy Bishop of Laon dated 1120 entitled "Privilegium de domino Elberto, Viromandensi comite" according to which the bishop declares that he has read the original charter under which "Elbert comte de Vermandois…et sa femme Gertrude [error for Gerberge]" founded Bucilly[257]. Further research in the original charter documentation is needed to clarify this confusion, not the least of which is that, even if Hérésinde was not the wife of Comte Albert, no other reference has been found to her being the wife of Comte Héribert [I] (see above).]

m [secondly] ([949/54]) GERBERGA, daughter of GISELBERT Duke of Lotharingia & his wife Gerberga of Germany ([935]-after 7 Sep 978). Settipani names her as the wife of Comte Albert, and gives her parentage, but does not cite the primary source on which this is based. A list of members of the Cathedral of Paris lists (in order) "Albertus comes, Girberga comitissa, Harbertus, Otto, Lewultus, Girbertus, Gondrada, Ricardus, Harbertus comes, Walerannus laicus, Gisla…", the first four individuals named apparently being Comte Albert, his wife and three sons, and the last named maybe his brother or nephew[258]. The primary source which confirms her parentage and marriage more precisely has not been identified.

Comte Albert & his [second] wife had [four] children:
HERIBERT [IV] ([954]-29 Aug [993]).
OTTO ([950/55]-after 2 Nov [958/59]).
LIUDOLF ([957]-before 9 Nov 986).
ELEONORE

Bronnen:

250] Flodoard 949, MGH SS III, p. 399. 

[251] Pécheur Histoire de Guise, p. 47. 

[252] Settipani (1993), p. 236. 

[253] Obituaires de Sens Tome I.2, Eglise cathedrale de Paris, p. 1015. 

[254] Pécheur Histoire de Guise, p. 47, citing "Charte de Raoul évêque de Laon, Lelong, N. Hist. du diocèse de Laon, p. 598". 

[255] Settipani (1993), p. 236. 

[256] Bucilly, Introduction, p. . 

[257] Bucilly I, p. 113, footnote 3 stating "Cette charte est reproduite in-extenso dans le Dictionnaire historique des communes de l'Aisne, de M. Melleville, tome I, p. 167" (which has not so far been consulted), although it is not known whether this refers to the original foundation charter or the charter dated 1120. 

[258] Obituaires de Sens Tome I.2, Eglise cathedrale de Paris, p. 1015. 

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