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Count Hugues "Le Grand" DE FRANCE
Abt 1053 - 1101 (~ 48 years)-
Name Hugues "Le Grand" DE FRANCE Prefix Count Nickname Le Grand Birth Abt 1053 Of Vermandois, Normandy, France 
Gender Male FamilySearch ID LDW5-FB6 Name Le Grand _UID 41AF1AA21D104C8588E25BC096403575AFEF Death 18 Oct 1101 Tarsus, Cilicie Burial St Paul DE Tarse Person ID I25410 Carney Wehofer 2024 Genealogy Last Modified 13 Dec 2022
Father Henri CAPET, King Of the Franks, b. 4 May 1008, Reims, Champagne, France d. 4 Aug 1060, Vitry, Brie, France (Age 52 years) Mother Duchess/ Anna Agnesa YAROSLAVNA, Of Kiev, b. 1036, Of Kiev, Kiev, Ukraine d. 5 Sep 1075, La Ferté-Alais, Essonne, Île-de-France, France (Age 39 years) Marriage 19 May 1051 Reims Cathedral, Reims, Champagne, France - NOTE MARRIED
Family ID F33 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Adelle (Adelaide) VERMANDOIS d. Yes, date unknown Marriage - NOTE MARRIED
Children 1. Maud (Matilda) DE VERMANDOIS, b. Abt 1080, Of Valois, France d. 1130 (Age ~ 50 years)2. Baeatrice DE VERMANDOIS, b. Abt 1082, Of Valois, France d. Aft 1144 (Age ~ 63 years)3. Isabel (Elizabeth) DE VERMANDOIS, b. Abt 1085, Of Valois, France d. 13 Feb 1131, France (Age ~ 46 years)4. Raoul I DE VERMANDOIS, b. Abt 1085, Of Valois, France d. 14 Oct 1152 (Age ~ 67 years)5. Constance DE VERMANDOIS, b. Abt 1086, Of Valois, France d. Yes, date unknown6. Agnaes DE VERMANDOIS, b. Abt 1090, Of Valois, France d. Aft 1125 (Age ~ 36 years)7. Henri, Lord Of Chaumont, b. Abt 1091, Of Valois, France d. 1130 (Age ~ 39 years)8. Simon DE VERMANDOIS, b. Abt 1093, Of Valois, France d. 10 Feb 1148, Selencie (Age ~ 55 years)9. Guillaume DE VERMANDOIS, b. Abt 1094, Of Valois, France d. Abt 1096 (Age ~ 2 years)Family ID F11491 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 29 Aug 2016
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Notes - Hugh I (1053 – October 18, 1101), called Magnus or the Great, was a younger son of Henry I of France and Anne of Kiev and younger brother of Philip I.
He was in his own right Count of Vermandois, but an ineffectual leader and soldier, great only in his boasting.
Indeed, Steven Runciman is certain that his nickname Magnus (greater or elder), applied to him by William of Tyre, is a copyist's error, and should be Minus (younger), referring to Hugh as younger brother of the King of France.
In early 1096 Hugh and Philip began discussing the First Crusade after news of the Council of Clermont reached them in Paris. Although Philip could not participate, as he had been excommunicated, Hugh was said to have been influenced to join the Crusade after an eclipse of the moon on February 11, 1096.
That summer Hugh's army left France for Italy, where they would cross the Adriatic Sea into territory of the Byzantine Empire, unlike the other Crusader armies who were travelling by land. On the way, many of the soldiers led by fellow Crusader Emicho of Flonheim joined Hugh's army after Emicho was defeated by the Hungarians (under King Coloman I "The Booklover" at Moson fortress), whose land he had been pillaging.
Hugh crossed the Adriatic from Bari in Southern Italy, but many of his ships were destroyed in a storm off the Byzantine port of Dyrrhachium.
Hugh and most of his army was rescued and escorted to Constantinople, where they arrived in November 1096. Prior to his arrival (he would be the first to arrive in Constantinople), Hugh sent an arrogant, insulting letter to Eastern Roman Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, according to the Emperor's biography by his daughter (the Alexiad), demanding that Alexius meet with him:
"Know, O King, that I am King of Kings, and superior to all, who are under the sky. You are now permitted to greet me, on my arrival, and to receive me with magnificence, as befits my nobility."[1]
Alexius was already wary of the armies about to arrive, after the unruly mob led by Peter the Hermit had passed through earlier in the year ("The People's Crusade"). Alexius kept Hugh in custody in a monastery until Hugh swore an oath of vassalage to him.
After the Crusaders had successfully made their way across Seljuk territory and, in 1098, captured Antioch, Hugh (and Baldwin of Hainault were) sent back to Constantinople to appeal for reinforcements from Alexius (Baldwin mysteriously vanishes in an ambush along the way). Alexius was uninterested in sending an expedition to claim the city so late in summer. (This triggers off a series of arguments in Antioch, where Bohemund asserts that Alexius had violated his oath to assist the crusades, and therefore, the city by rights was his. This argument, and an outbreak of typhus, ties up the Crusaders for the remainder of the year.)
Hugh, instead of returning to Antioch to help plan the siege of Jerusalem, went back to France. There he was scorned for not having fulfilled his vow as a Crusader to complete a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and Pope Paschal II threatened to excommunicate him.
Hugh joined the minor Crusade of 1101 ("The Crusade of the Faint-Hearted," alongside William IX of Aquitaine and Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, and accompanied by Ida of Austria, mother of Leopold III of Austria). Half of this army was allowed to set sail from Constantinople for Palestine, while the other half marched overland, reaching Heraclea by September. Hugh was wounded in battle with the Turks (ambushed by Kilij Arslan) in September, and died of his wounds on October 18 in Tarsus. (Their group continued eastward under William of Nevers and Raymond of Toulouse, arriving at Jerusalem in Easter 1102. Kilij Arslan later establishes his capital at Konya after his victories over the "Crusade of the Faint-Hearted.")
- Hugh I (1053 – October 18, 1101), called Magnus or the Great, was a younger son of Henry I of France and Anne of Kiev and younger brother of Philip I.