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NNAlthough there is no direct documentation for the name of Heribert's wife, the chronicler Flodoard confirms on several occasions that she was a sister of Hugues the Great, and thus a daughter of Robert I ["... Hugo dux cum nepotibus suis, Heriberti filiis, ..." Flodoard, Annales, s.a. 943, 88; "... inter filios Heriberti comitis ..., Hugone principe avunculo ipsorum ..." ibid. s.a. 946, 100 (see above); "Nepotes Hugonis, Heribertus et Rotbertus, ..." ibid., s.a. 952, 134]. Since the sons of Heribert were nepotes of Hugues, and Hugues was avunculus to the sons of Heribert, the clear interpretation is that Heribert was married to a sister of Hugues, and the names of Eudes, Hugues and Robert given to three of the sons of Heribert provide further confirmation. Other sources also mention the connection, sometimes with an ambiguity (involving the words nepos or gener) which may have helped give rise to the evidently false claim that Hugues was a nephew of Heribert [e.g., "Unde et aliorum regnorum proceres eum adierunt, gratiamque in conspectu eius invenire quaerentes, fidem talis ac tanti viri probatam habentes dilexerunt. Inter quos Hiriberhtus gener Hugonis, cum ei adversaretur Rodulfus, contra ius fasque omne rex constitutus, ut ei apud dominum suum pro praesidio esset, supplicavit." Widukind i, 39, MGH SS 3: 435; "Ductus inde exercitus contra urbem Remensem, ubi erat nepos Hugonis contra ius fasque omne subrogatus episcopus, legitimo pontifice adhuc superstite" Widukind iii, 3, MGH SS 3: 451 (referring to Hugues, son of Heribert II); "Ipse namque iam predictus comes venerabilis Arnulfus accepit coniugem Adelam, domni Heriberti comitis filiam atque duorum regum, Odonis scilicet atque Rotberti, neptem." Witger, Genealogia Arnulfi comitis, MGH SS 9: 303; "Post cruentissimum vero praelium videns Karolus se adhuc in adversariorum medio positum, hinc scilicet Hugonem, iam dicti Rodberti regis filium, illinc Herebertum, eiusdem generum, cavensque, ne irruerent super eum cum multitudine hostium, reversus est cum suis inde venerat, in Hlotharii regnum." Folcwine, c. 101, MGH SS 13: 625]. No clear documentation is known for her name. There is no evidence which would give her the name Hildebrante, as given by some sources [e.g. Anselme, 1: 68]. Some have suggested that she was the countess Adèle who appears in a document of 907 with the future king Robert I, but it is more likely that she was Robert's wife [see the Commentary section of the page of Robert I].
Date of birth: Unknown.
Place of birth: Unknown.
Date of death: After 931.
Heribert's unnamed wife is
mentioned as alive by Flodoard in 931 [Flodoard, Annales,
s.a. 931, 51].
Place of death: Unknown.
Father: Robert I, d. 923, king of France.
Mother: Unknown.
Spouse: Heribert II, d. 943, count of Meaux, Soissons, and Vermandois.
Children:
For details on the documentation, see the page of Heribert II.
Eudes, d. after 19 June 946, count of
Vienne and Amiens.
Adèle, d. 960, m. 934 Arnulf I,
count of Flanders.
Heribert "vetulus"
("the old"), d. 980×4 apparently 30 March, abbot of
Saint-Médard de Soissons; count of Omois;
m. 951, Eadgifu, daughter
of Edward the Elder, king of Wessex, and widow
of Charles III of France.
Robert, d. after 19 June 966; count of Meaux, 946-; count of
Troyes, 956-;
m. 942×950, Adélaïde (Werra), d. after 967, daughter of Giselbert, count of Chalon
and Troyes.
Albert (Adalbert), d. 8 September, 987
or after, count of Vermandois, 946-987;
m. Gerberge, daughter of Giselbert, duke of Lorriane.
Liégard, living 16 August 979;
m. (1) ca. 940, Guillaume
I, d. 943, duke of Normandy;
m. (2) 943×5, Thibaut I "le Tricheur",
d. 16 January 975, count of Blois and Chartres, viscount of
Tours.
Hugues, b. ca. 920, d. ca. 962,
archbishop of Reims, 925-932, 940-6.
Anselme = Père Anselme, Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, 9 vols. (Paris, 1726-33).
Flodoard, Annales = Ph. Lauer, ed., Les Annales de Flodoard (Paris, 1905).
MGH SS = Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores series.
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
First uploaded 26 July 2008.
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