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VERMANDOIS , a See also:French countship composed originally of the two burgraviates (chatellenies) of St Quentin (See also:Aisne) and Peronne (See also:Somme). See also:Herbert I., the earliest of its hereditary See also:counts, was descended in See also:direct male See also:line from the See also:emperor See also:Charlemagne, and" was killed in 902 by an See also:assassin in the pay of See also:Baldwin II., See also:count of See also:Flanders. His son, Herbert II. (902–943), a See also:man absolutely devoid of scruples, considerably in-creased the territorial See also:power of the See also:house of Vermandois, and kept the lawful See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of See also:France, the unlucky See also:Charles the See also:Simple, prisoner for six years. His successors, See also:Albert I., Herbert III., Albert II., See also:Otto and Herbert IV., were unimportant. In
077 thn last male of the first house of Vermandois, Herbert IV,,received the countship of See also:Valois in right of his wife. He died soon afterwards, leaving his See also:inheritance to his daughter Adela, whose first See also:husband was See also:Hugh the See also:Great, the See also:brother of king See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip I. Hugh was one of the leaders of the first, crusade, and died in 1102 at See also:Tarsus in See also:Cilicia. The eldest son of Hugh and Adela was count Raoul (See also:Rudolph) I. (c. 1120-1152), who married Alix of Guyenne, See also:sister of the See also:queen, Eleanor, and had by her three See also:children: Raoul (Rudolph) II., the Leper (count from 1152–67); Isabelle, who possessed from 1167 to 1183 the countships of Vermandois, Valois and See also:Amiens conjointly with her husband, Philip of See also:Alsace, count of Flanders; and Eleanor. By the terms of a treaty concluded in 1185 with the king, Philip See also:Augustus, the count of Flanders kept the countship of Vermandois until his See also:death, in 1191. At this date a new arrangement gave Eleanor (d. 1213) a See also:life See also:interest in the eastern See also:part of Vermandois, together with the See also:title of countess of St Quentin, and the king entered immediately into See also:possession of Peronne and its dependencies.
See See also:Anselme, Histoire genealogique de la maison royale de France (1726), i. 48—51 and 531—34; Colliette, Memoires pour l'histoire du Vermandois (1771-72). (A.
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