Heribert IV Comte de Vermandois

  General Notes:

~Weis's Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 5:22, 140:22, Herbert IV, count of Vermandois, married Adela de Vexin, daughter of Raoul III, the Great Count of Valois and Vexin. Herbert IV was the son of Eudes (or Otho) Count of Vermandois. The daughter of Herbert IV and Adela de Vexin was Adelaide de Vermandois who married, first, Hugh Magunus, and second Reinald, count of Clermont. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Heribert VI comte de Vermandois.
Heribert succeeded his father Eudes in 1045 as Comte de Vermandois. "Heribertus...Viromanduorum comes" confirmed donations to Saint-Prix made by "prædecessor noster Albertus" by charter dated 1076, subscribed by "...Odonis vicecomitis...Odonis fratris comitis...Roberti Peronensis, Ivonis Hamensis, Ivonis Nigellensis, Hugonis Calniacensis, Odonis filii Roberti Peronensis..." [Hémeré, C. (1643) Augusta Viromanduorum (Paris), Regestum veterum charta, p. 37]. He succeeded as Comte de Valois in 1077, by right of his wife. "Herbertus Vermandensium et Vadascorum comes" donated property to the church of Saint-Quentin and others, with the consent of "Alide coniugis meæ", by charter dated 1059 [Foppens (1734), Tome III, Pars II, XXII, p. 303]. Heribert married Adelais de Valois, daughter of Raoul (III) Comte de Valois, de Crépy et de Vitry & his first wife Aelis de Bar-sur-Aube. Her marriage is confirmed by an undated charter, quoted by Acta Sanctorum, under which "Rodulfus comes" donated property to Saint-Rémy, confirmed by "Symonem filium meum, duos quoque generos meos, quos de filiabus meis habeo, id est Heribertum comitem et juvenem…Bartholomeum" [Acta Sanctorum, September VIII, p. 725].

Heribert married Adele de Vexin, daughter of Raoul III "the Great" Comte de Valois et Amiens, Montdidier, et Vexin and Adèle de Bar-sur-Aube Reina des Francs. (Adele de Vexin was born before 1043 in Valois, France and died in 1080.)