Guy I of Ponthieu, Count of Ponthieu

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Wikipeida
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_I,_Count_of_Ponthieu

Ponthieu was one of six feudal counties that eventually merged to become part of the Province of Picardy, in northern France. Its chief town is Abbeville. It played a small but important role in the politics that led up to the Norman invasion of England in 1066.

Guy was a younger son of Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu and about 1053 succeeded his brother Enguerrand II, as Count of Ponthieu. The alliance with Duke William of Normandy had earlier been secured by the marriage of Enguerrand to Adelaide of Normandy, Duke William's sister. But the marriage was apparently annulled due to consanguinity.

Enguerrand and Guy's sister was married to William of Talou, son of Richard II, Duke of Normandy. William of Talou had built a strong castle at Arques, and in 1053 he defied his nephew the youthful Duke of Normandy. As "family," the house of Ponthieu supported the rebellion.

Duke William put Arques under siege, and then remained mobile with another force in the countryside nearby. Young Count Enguerrand led his army to relieve Arques, and arrived first, but Duke William successfully ambushed them and Enguerrand was killed. William of Talou was compelled to surrender Arques and was banished for life. With the death of his older brother (who was without heirs), Guy assumed the duties as count. This is the first mention of Guy in the historical record.

Count Guy became a vassal of Duke William of Normandy after his army plundered and pillages the countryside around Mortemer. The Normans attacked his army, his younger brother Waleran was mortally wounded, and Guy himself was captured. He spent two years as a prisoner in Normandy, while his uncle, Bishop Guy of Amiens, ruled Ponthieu as regent.

In 1064, Harold Godwinson, the Earl of Wessex, was shipwrecked on the shores of Ponthieu and captured by Count Guy who took him to his castle of Beaurain on the River Canche, as the Bayeux Tapestry relates: hic apprehendit wido Haroldum et duxit em ad Belrem et ibi eum tenuit ("Here Guy seized Harold and led him to Beaurain and held him there"). Duke William demanded the release of the earl, and Count Guy delivered Harold Godwinson up after being paid a ransom for him.

In 1066, Harold accepted the crown of England upon the death of Edward the Confessor, thus precipitating the war that resulted in the Norman Conquest. Guy did not participate in the Battle of Hastings, the Song of the Battle of Hastings,an early written source, has Hugh, another of Guy's brothers, having a hand in the slaying of Harold.

Guy's daughter, Agnes, married Robert of Bellême. Their son, William III of Ponthieu, assumed the comital title upon the death of his mother, sometime before 1111.

Guy married . Unknown [Group Sheet]

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes,_Countess_of_Ponthieu

She was the daughter of Count Guy I of Ponthieu. Enguerrand, the son of Count Guy, died at a youthful age. Guy then made his brother Hugh heir presumptive, but he also died before Guy (died 1100). Agnes became count Guy's heiress, and was married to Robert of Bellême. Their son William III of Ponthieu succeeded to the county of Ponthieu after the death of Agnes (between 1105 and 1111), and the imprisonment of his father in 1112. [The Gesta Normannorum Ducum of William of Jumièges, Orderic Vitalis and Robert of Torigni, edited and translated by Elisabeth M. C. Van Houts, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1995.]

Agnes married Robert of Bellême, 3rd Earl of Shrewsbury, Count of Ponthieu. Robert was born ca 1056; died Aft 1130. [Group Sheet]

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_III,_Count_of_Ponthieu

He was seigneur de Montgomery in Normandy and Count of Ponthieu. William was son of Robert II of Bellême and Agnes of Ponthieu. He succeeded his father as count of Ponthieu some time between 1105 and 1111.

His father Robert de Bellême had turned against Henry I on several occasions, had escaped capture at the battle of Tinchebrai in 1106. While serving as envoy for King Louis of France, he was arrested by Henry I and imprisoned for life.

William was naturally driven by this to oppose King Henry. In June of 1119, however, Henry I restored all his father's lands in Normandy. Sometime prior to 1126, William resigned the county of Ponthieu to his son Guy but retained the title of count. In 1135 Henry I again confiscated all his Norman lands to which William responded by joining count Geoffrey of Anjou in his invasion of Normandy after Henry I's death.

He married, abt. 1115, Helie of Burgundy, daughter of Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy. The Gesta Normannorum Ducum says that they had five children, three sons and two daughters.


1. Guy II. He assumed the county of Ponthieu during his father Talvas' lifetime, but died in 1147 predeceasing his father.

2. William, Count of Alençon.

3. John I, Count of Alençon, married Beatrix d'Anjou, daughter of Elias II, Count of Maine and Philippa, daughter of Rotrou III, Count of Perche.

4. Clemence married (abt. 1189) Juhel, son of Walter of Mayenne.

5. Adela (aka Ela) married William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey. She married, secondly, Patrick of Salisbury.

William married Helie of Burgundy. Helie (daughter of Eudes (Odo) I of Burgundy, Duke of Burgundy and Sibylla of Burgundy, Duchess of Burgundy) was born ca 1080, County of Burgundy, France; died 28 Feb 1141, Perseigne Abbey, Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois, France; was buried , Perseigne Abbey, Neufchâtel-en-Saosnois, France. [Group Sheet]

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Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_II_of_Ponthieu

He was the son of William III of Ponthieu and Helie of Burgundy. He succeeded his father as Count of Ponthieu before 1129; this was during William's lifetime. Around 1137, he founded the Cistercian Valloires Abbey.

In 1146, he joined the Second Crusade under King Louis VII of France. He died of a disease on 25 December 1147 in Ephesus. He was succeeded by his son John I of Ponthieu.

His wife was called Ida; he had three children with her:

1. John I (d. 1191), Count of Ponthieu

2. Guido (d. between 1208 and 1218), Lord of Noyelles

3. Agnes, abbess in Montreuil

Guy married Ida. [Group Sheet]

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Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Warenne,_3rd_Earl_of_Surrey

She was daughter of Count William III of Ponthieu, by his wife Helie daughter of Odo I, Duke of Burgundy. They had one child and sole-heiress, a daughter, Isabel de Warenne, 4th Countess of Surrey in her own right.

Buried:
Grave location, biography, and photo of priory:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=82479006

Adela married William de Warenne, 3rd Earl of Surrey. William (son of William II de Warenne, 2nd Earl of Surrey and Isabel de Vermandois) was born ca 1119, Lewes, East Sussex, England; died 1148, Battle of Mount Cadmus, Anatolia,Turkey; was buried , Unknown. [Group Sheet]

Adela married Patrick Evereaux FitzWalter, Earl of Salisbury. [Group Sheet]