884 - 943 (59 years)| Name | Herbert de Vermandois [1] | |
| Title | Count of Vermandois and Meaux | |
| Suffix | II | |
| Birth | 23 Feb 884 | France  |
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| Gender | Male | |
| Occupation | He was the first to exercise power over the territory that became the province of Champagne | |
| Religion | Lay Abbott at the Abbey of St. Medard, Soissons | |
| Death | 23 Feb 943 | Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France |
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| Person ID | I7970 | A Tree Called Smith |
| Last Modified | 21 Jul 2025 | |
| Father | Herbert Senlis de Vermandois, I, b. 857, France d. 23 Feb 912, France (Age 55 years) | |
| Relationship | natural | |
| Mother | Beatrice 'Bertha' de Morvois, b. 850, Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France d. 15 Jun 923, France (Age 73 years) | |
| Relationship | natural | |
| Marriage | 873 | France [2] |
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| Family ID | F3968 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | Princess Adela Capet, b. 895, France d. 10 Oct 958, France (Age 63 years) | |||||||
| Marriage | Abt 907 | Troyes, Aube, Champagne-Ardenne, France |
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| Family ID | F2754 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||
| Last Modified | 21 Jul 2025 | |||||||
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| Arms Icons & Insignia |  | Arms-VERMANDOIS Vermandois/de Vermandois Coat of Arms |
| Old World | | _Herbert II of Vermandois Herbert was the son of Herbert I of Vermandois. He was apparently well aware of his descent from Charlemagne. Herbert inherited the domain of his father and in 907, added to it the Abbey of St. Medard, Soissons. He took the position of Lay abbot entitling him to the income of those estates. His marriage with a daughter of king Robert I of France… |
| Places |  | Church - Abbey of St Medard The Abbey of St. Medard, Soissons, was a Benedictine monastery, at one time held to be the greatest in France. The abbey was founded in 557 by Clotaire I on his manor of Crouy, near the villa of Syagrius, just outside the then boundaries of Soissons to house the remains of Saint Medard, the legend being that during the funeral procession the… |
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