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- First wife of Renaud.
“ADELAIS de Vermandois ([1065]-28 Sep [1120/24]). The De Genere Comitum Flandrensium, Notæ Parisienses names "Odonem et Adelam sororem" as the two children of "comes Herbertus", specifying that the husband of Adela was "Hugoni le Magne" and referring to her second husband "comes de Claromonte" and specifying that her daughter by the latter married Charles Count of Flanders. The Genealogiæ Scriptoris Fusniacensis names "Adelidem comitissam Viromandensium, defuncto priore viro, scilicet Hugone Magno" as wife of "comes Rainaldus [de Claromonte]". She succeeded her father in [1080] as Ctss de Vermandois, de Valois et de Crépy. m firstly ([1080]) HUGUES de France, son of HENRI King of France & his second wife Anna Iaroslavna of Kiev (1057-Tarsus in Cilicia 18 Oct 1102, bur Tarsus church of St Paul). Comte de Vermandois et de Valois by right of his wife. Leader of the French contingent in the First Crusade Aug 1096 returning to France after the victory of Antioch 101098 to raise another army. He set out again Mar 1101 but died from wounds received fighting the Greeks at Tarsus in Cilicia. m secondly (1103) as his first wife, RENAUD de Clermont, son of HUGUES de Clermont [en-Beauvaisis] dit de Mouchy & his wife Marguerite de Roucy [Montdidier] (-before 1162). He took the title Comte after his marriage.”
From Wikipedia (25 Jul 2023)
Adelaide, Countess of Vermandois
“Adelaide of Vermandois (died 23 Sep 1120) was suo jure Countess of Vermandois and Valois from 1080 to 1120.
Adelaide was the daughter of Herbert IV, Count of Vermandois and Adele of Valois.[1]
By 1080,[2] Adelaide married Hugh, son of the Capetian King Henry I of France and younger brother of Philip I of France.[3] Hugh became Count of Vermandois, following Adelaide's father's death.[a][4]
In 1104, Adelaide married Renaud II, Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis.[5] By this marriage, Adelaide had a daughter, Margaret of Clermont.
In 1102, Adelaide was succeeded by her son, Ralph I. Adelaide died in 1120, being the last Carolingian to hold the County of Vermandois.
Issue
Adelaide and Hugh had:
-Matilda (fl. 1110), married Ralph I of Beaugency
-Beatrice (fl. 1144), married Hugh IV of Gournay
-Elizabeth of Vermandois, Countess of Leicester (died 1131)
-Ralph I, Count of Vermandois
-Constance, married Godfrey de la Ferté-Gaucher
-Agnes (fl. 1125), married Boniface of Savone
-Henry (died 1130), Lord of Chaumont en Vexin
-Simon (died 1148)
-William, possibly married to Isabella, daughter of Louis VI of France.
Adelaide and Renaud had:
-Margaret of Clermont”
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