Hugh II, Count of Ponthieu

Hugh II of Ponthieu was count of Ponthieu and lord of Abbeville, the son of Enguerrand I of Ponthieu. ^[1] Evidently, Hugh II was the half-brother of Guy, who became the bishop of Amiens; Fulk, who became the abbot of Forest l'Abbaye; and Robert. However, it is possible that both Robert and Hugh II were the sons of Enguerrand's first wife, and Guy and Fulk the sons of a later wife that Enguerrand I married when he was in his forties.

Issue

Hugh II was married to Bertha of Aumale, Countess of Aumale. ^[1] They had:

• Enguerrand II who succeeded Hugh II as Count of Ponthieu ^{[2] [1]}
• Robert
• Hugh ^[3]
• Waleran (d.1054) ^[3]
• Beatrice of Ponthieu (1022–1054) was married to William of Talou, the count of Arques ^[a]
• Guy I, ^{[3] [5]} succeeded Enguerrand II as Count of Ponthieu ^[6]

Notes

1. Barlow's translation indicates a daughter of Hugh, no name is given. ^[4]

References

1. Power 2007, p. 484.
2. Paul 2012, p. 33.
3. Tanner 2004, p. 295.
4. Barlow 1999, p. xliv.
5. Thompson 2022, p. 23.
6. Thompson 2022, p. 27.

Sources

• Barlow, Frank, ed. (1999). The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Guy, Bishop of Amiens. Oxford University Press. ISBN   0-19-820758-1.
• Paul, Nicholas L. (2012). To Follow in Their Footsteps: The Crusades and Family Memory in the High Middle Ages. Cornell University Press. When Count Hugh II of Ponthieu died in 1052, his son Enguerrand II...
• Power, Daniel (2007). The Norman Frontier in the Twelfth and Early Thirteenth Centuries. Cambridge University Press.
• Tanner, Heather (2004). Families, Friends and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, c.879-637"/1160. Brill.
• Thompson, Kathleen (2022). "The Perspective from Ponthieu: Count Guy and his Norman Neighbour". In Church, Stephen D. (ed.). Anglo-Norman Studies XLIV: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 2021. The Boydell Press. pp. 19–34. doi:10.1017/9781800106314. ISBN   978-1-80010-631-4. It was not a happy start for Enguerrand's successor, his younger brother, Guy, who must have been a very young man in 1053..

Further reading

• The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972.

Preceded by Enguerrand I	Count of Ponthieu c. 1045–1052	Succeeded by Enguerrand II