HERBERT, Count of Soissons, Count of Meaux, Count of Vermandois, and lay abbot of Saint Quentin. I

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: Contemporary of Baldwin II, Count of Flanders he had the advantage of being a Carolingian, a great-grandson of Pepin of Italy, a son of Charlemagne.
• Misc: Charged with defending the Oise against Viking intrusions
• Relation to Me: 35 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Count of Vermandois, Count of Meaux, Count of Soissons, and lay abbot of Saint Quentin

Notes:

Birth:
Vermandois, Normandy, France

I married MORVOIS, Bertha de in 879. Bertha was born on 30 Aug 845; died on 15 Jun 923. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Vermandois, Normandy, France

1. VERMANDOIS, Herbert II was born in 884 in Senlis, Oise, Picardie, France; died on 23 Feb 943.
2. VERMANDOIS, Beatrice was born in 880; died in 931 in Soissons, Aisne, Picardie, France.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Differentiator: He was the son of King Bernard of Italy (a grandson of Charlemagne) and Cunigunda of Laon.
• Relation to Me: 36 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: First Count of Vermandois
• Name: Saint Pepin
• Misc: 840; Supported Lothair I against Louis the Pious.

Notes:

Birth:
Vermandois, Aisne, Picardie, France

I + BOBBIO, Rothaide Comtesse de Vermandois de. Rothaide was born in 818 in Laon, Aisne, Picardie, France; died in Dec 878 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 36 GGM

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 37 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: Between 810 and 818; King of the Lombards; King of Italy
• Misc: 815; Louis the Pious received reports that some Roman nobles had conspired to murder Pope Leo III, and that he had responded by butchering the ringleaders, Bernard was sent to investigate the matter.

Notes:

Bernard was the illegitimate son of King Pepin of Italy, the second legitimate son of the Emperor Charlemagne. In 810, Pepin died from an illness contracted at a siege of Venice; although Bernard was illegitimate, Charlemagne allowed him to inherit Italy.

Birth:
Vermandois, Normandy, France

Bernard married DE LOAN, Kunigunda in 815 in Bohain, Aisne, Picardie, France. Kunigunda was born in 797; died on 15 Oct 865 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 36 GGM
• Royalty & Nobility: Queen of Italy

Notes:

Birth:
Laon, Aisne, Pays de la Loire, France

Notes:

Married:
Vermandois, Normandy, France

Other Events and Attributes:

• Relation to Me: 38 GGF
• Royalty & Nobility: King of Italy; King of the Lombards
• Name: Pepin I Carloman

Notes:

Pepin was the second son of Charlemagne by his then-wife Hildegard. He was born Carloman, but was rechristened with the royal name Pepin (also the name of his older half-brother Pepin the Hunchback, and his grandfather Pepin the Short) when he was a young child. He was made "king of Italy" after his father's conquest of the Lombards, in 781, and crowned by Pope Hadrian I with the Iron Crown of Lombardy.

I + DETOULOUSE DEGELLONE, Bertha Queen of Italy. Bertha was born in 779 in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France; died on 11 Mar 805 in Milan, Milano, Lombardia, Italy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]