Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois -1152

Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois was appointed I Count Vermandois.

Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois and Lauretta Metz Countess Namur and Luxemburg were married. She the daughter of Thierry Count Flanders and Swanhilde Countess Flanders. He the son of Hugh "Great" Capet and Adelaide I Countess Vermandois. They were second cousin twice removed.

Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois and Petronilla Poitiers were married. She the daughter of William "Saint" Poitiers X Duke Aquitaine and Aenor Chatellerault Duchess Aquitaine. He the son of Hugh "Great" Capet and Adelaide I Countess Vermandois. They were second cousin twice removed.

Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois was born to Hugh "Great" Capet and Adelaide I Countess Vermandois.

In 1080 [his grandfather] Herbert Vermandois IV Count Vermandois [aged 52] died. His son [his uncle] Odo succeeded I Count Vermandois but he was declared insane. His daughter [his mother] Adelaide succeeded I Countess Vermandois.

In 1096 [his brother-in-law] Robert Beaumont 1st Earl of Leicester Count Meulan [aged 56] and [his sister] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey [aged 11] were married. She by marriage Countess of Leicester. The difference in their ages was 45 years. She the daughter of [his father] Hugh "Great" Capet [aged 39] and [his mother] Adelaide I Countess Vermandois.

On 18th October 1101 [his father] Hugh "Great" Capet [aged 44] died.

In 1103 Renaud II Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis [aged 28] and [his mother] Adelaide I Countess Vermandois were married. He by marriage Count Vermandois. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Herbert Vermandois IV Count Vermandois and [his grandmother] Adela Valois Countess Blois and Vermandois. He the son of Hugh Clermont Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis.

In 1118 [his brother-in-law] Charles I Count Flanders [aged 34] and [his half-sister] Marguerite Clermont Countess Flanders [aged 13] were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years. She the daughter of Renaud II Count of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis [aged 43] and [his mother] Adelaide I Countess Vermandois. He the son of King Canute "The Holy" IV of Denmark and Adela Flanders Queen Consort Denmark. They were fifth cousin once removed.

Before 1119 [his brother-in-law] William Warenne 2nd Earl of Surrey and [his sister] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey [aged 33] were married. She by marriage Countess Surrey. She the daughter of [his father] Hugh "Great" Capet and [his mother] Adelaide I Countess Vermandois. He the son of William Warenne 1st Earl of Surrey and Gundred Countess of Surrey.

In 1120 [his mother] Adelaide I Countess Vermandois died.

In 1125 Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois and Eleanor Blois were married. She the daughter of Stephen Blois II Count Blois and Chartres [aged 80] and Adela Normandy Countess Blois [aged 58]. He the son of Hugh "Great" Capet and Adelaide I Countess Vermandois. They were second cousin once removed. She a granddaughter of King William "Conqueror" I of England.

In 1125 [his brother-in-law] King Stephen I England [aged 31] and Matilda Flanders [aged 20] were married. She the daughter of Eustace Flanders III Count Boulogne and Mary Dunkeld Countess Boulogne. He the son of Stephen Blois II Count Blois and Chartres [aged 80] and [his mother-in-law] Adela Normandy Countess Blois [aged 58]. They were half fourth cousin once removed. He a grandson of King William "Conqueror" I of England.

In 1129 [his brother-in-law] Bishop Henry of Blois [aged 31] was appointed Bishop of Winchester.

On 13th February 1131 [his sister] Elizabeth Capet Countess Leicester, Meulan and Surrey [aged 46] died.

In 1139 Josce de Dinan and Sybil de Lacy were married by which he gained control of Ludlow Castle [Map]. The marriage arranged by [his brother-in-law] King Stephen I England [aged 45].

In 1143 [his daughter] Elizabeth Capet was born to Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois and Petronilla Poitiers [aged 18]. She married her third cousin once removed Philip I Count of Flanders, son of Thierry Count Flanders and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex.

After 1143 William Roumare 1st Earl Lincoln [aged 47] was created 1st Earl Lincoln by [his brother-in-law] King Stephen I England [aged 49].

In 1145 [his half-sister] Marguerite Clermont Countess Flanders [aged 40] died.

In 1145 [his son] Ralph Capet II Count Vermandois was born to Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois and Petronilla Poitiers [aged 20]. He married his half third cousin once removed Margaret Metz Countess Hainaut and Flanders, daughter of Thierry Count Flanders and Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex.

In 1147 [his wife] Eleanor Blois died.

In 1149 [his daughter] Eleanor Capet Countess Vermandois was born to Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois and Petronilla Poitiers [aged 24]. She married (1) her fourth cousin Geoffrey Flanders, son of Baldwin Flanders IV Count Hainaut and Alice Namur Countess Hainaut (2) 1164 her third cousin twice removed William IV Count of Nevers.

On 14th October 1152 Ralph I Capet I Count Vermandois died.