County of Amiens

The County of Amiens (also: Amiénois) was a feudal state centred on the city of Amiens, northern France, that existed from the 9th century until 1077 when the last count became a monk and the county reverted to the French crown. In 1185 the county was united with the French crown under King Philip II of France.

County of Amiens Comte de Amiens (French)
9th Century–1185
Status	Vassal State of France (9th Century-1077) Crown Land of France (1077-1185)
Capital	Amiens
Common languages	Old French Picard
Religion	Catholicism
Government	County
Count of Amiens
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Established	9th Century
• County reverts to French crown	1077
• United with the French crown	1185
Preceded by Succeeded by West Francia Kingdom of France
Today part of	Somme Department

List of counts of Amiens

• Richard (801-825) ancestor of the House of Buvinids
• Ermenfroi (before 895–919) also count of Vexin and Valois
• Ralph I of Gouy (915-926), also probably Count of Ostervant, from 923 also count of Valois and Vexin, possibly brother-in-law or son-in-law of Ermenfroi (first house of Valois)
• Ralph II of Vexin (Raoul de Cambrai) (926-944), Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, son of Ralph I.
• Odo of Vermandois (941-944), son of Count Herbert II of Vermandois, usurped the county in 941, ejected by royal troops in 944.
• Herluin (941-944), Count of Ponthieu (House of Montreuil)
• Walter I of Vexin (945-after 992), from 965 Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, probably son of Ralph I.
• Walter II of Vexin Le Blanc (before 998-after 1017), Count of Valois, Amiens and Vexin, from 1017 Count of Mantes, son of Walter I.
• Drogo (after 1017–1035), Count of Amiens, Mantes, Pontoise and Vexin, son of Walter II.
• Walter III (1035-1063), count of Amiens and Vexin, from 1063 titular count of Maine, son of Drogo
• Ralph IV (1063-1074) Count of Valois, Crépy and Vitry, from 1063 Count of Amiens and Vexin, avoué of five abbeys (Saint-Denis, Jumièges, Saint-Wandrille, Saint-Pierre in Chartres and Saint-Arnoul in Crépy), son of Ralph III.
• Simon (1074-1077), died in 1080, Count of Amiens, Valois, Montdidier, Bar-sur-Aube, Vitry and Vexin, son of Ralph IV.

In 1077 Simon became a monk and his possessions were distributed. Valois went to his brother-in-law Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois, Amiens reverted to the French king Philip I while Vexin was divided between William, Duke of Normandy, and the king of France. Bar-sur-Aube and Vitry were occupied by Theobald, Count of Blois.

House of Boves

• Enguerrand I (1085-1118), lord of Boves, Coucy and la Fère
• Thomas (1116-1118), died before 1131, his son, lord of Coucy, Marle, la Fère and Boves

Capetian House of Vermandois

• Ralph I le Vaillant (1102–1152), Count of Valois, Vermandois, Amiens and Crépy, Seneschal of France (1131–1152), Regent of France in 1147

Bibliography

• Baldwin, John W. (1986). The Government of Philip Augustus: Foundations of French Royal Power in the Middle Ages. University of California Press.

References

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