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Adalbert I, Count of Vermandois
Adalbert I of Vermandois (French: Albert I le Pieux, the Pious) (c. 930–c. 8 September 987[1]), was the son of Herbert II of Vermandois and Adela of France.
Born about 915, he succeeded his father as Count of Vermandois in 946.
Life
Adalbert, also known as Albert, assisted his brother Count Herbert in his marriage to Queen "Ottobega" (Eadgifu of Wessex), the mother of Louis IV of France.
Adalbert's men escorted (some sources say abducted) Ottobega from the convent in Laon where she resided to her marriage with Herbert, which in turn enraged King Louis. There was a prior history between Louis IV and the House of Vermandois as Adalbert's father Herbert II was responsible for the capture, imprisonment and death in captivity of Louis's father King Charles the Simple as well as Louis's own exile to England as an infant.
Louis confiscated his mother's holdings, the abbey of Saint Mary in Laon which he gave to his wife G