House of Montreuil

The counts de Montreuil owe their name with Montreuil-sur-Mer, strengthened city, quoted for the first time in 898 in the Annales of Saint-Bertin and Saint-Vaast . The origin of the name would come from a “ small monastère ” (monasterolium). It is known that some time later, after 913, the monks of Landévennec (Finistere) there found refuge after the destruction of their monastery by the Viking S. Helgaud, count de Montreuil, seemed to have already equipped it with an enclosure and a Château comtal. It is at that time that the military career of the city starts then which will see following one another during six centuries of medieval wars of many constructions.

After the extinction of the house of Ponthieu, Montreuil passes to the counts de Flandre. By the marriage (989) of Rozala of Italy, widow of Arnoul II of Flanders, with Robert the Piles, wire of Hugues Capet and future king, Montreuil is attached to the royal Domaine and Hugues Capet makes of Montreuil the only seaport of the French Monarchie, heir to opulent and mysterious Quentovic.

House of Montreuil

The origin of the family is not known. Later genealogies tried to make of them descendants of Angilbert, but the assumption does not rest on nothing. On considerations onomastics, it is possible that they are related with the Unrochides, which was established in Bolted and Artois towards 880.

According to the Chronic of Saint-Riquier , the count Helgaud de Montreuil appears into 866, when it succeeds the welf Rodolphe like acknowledged of Saint-Riquier. However, one thinks that the chronicle which reports it is erroneous and that Helgaud was acknowledged only into 881, of died of the son of Rodolphe. In 877, he becomes count de Montreuil and dies into 926, killed as a combatant the count Rollon. He had had three wire:

Herluin († 945), count de Montreuil and solicitor of Saint-Riquier
Erard or Evrard, lord of Ham, would have been ancestor of alleged the Maison of Ham.
Lambert, killed at the time of a battle which it delivered to try to avenge his brother.

The count Herluin de Montreuil († 945), succeeded his/her father. He must very quickly face the ambitions of Herbert II, count de Vermandois, succeeds in it beating, but Herbert to make alliance with Arnoul Ier, count de Flandre, and Herluin diot to ask for the assistance of Guillaume '' Long-Sword '', duke of Normandy, and to recognize his vassal. In 942, it will in vain try to persuade Guillaume '' Long-Sword '' with the interview of Picquigny where this one is assassinated by the frank princes. In 944, he manages to kill the assassin of Guillaume '' Long-Sword '', but the Norman ones consider it indirectly responsible for dead for Guillaume Long-Sword and kill it at the time of a meeting between the Norman ones and the king of France, into 945. He had had a son, Roger.

Roger succeeds his father, but cannot prevent the catch of the city into 948 by the count of Flanders. He is quoted for the last time into 957 by Flodoard. He leaves a son, Hugues († 961), which does not seem to have controlled Montreuil, conquered at that time by the counts of Flanders.

Genealogies claim that the counts de Ponthieu of the 11th century go down from the house of Montreuil, but separately the first name of Hugues carried by the last one representing house of Montreuil and also by the first lord of the Maison of Ponthieu, the two houses do not have a point commun runs. Onomastics shows that these two houses have all the chances not to have a relationship.

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