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Birth:          ABT  949 

Notes
his 2d marriage
He was Count of Chiny, dispossessed as Count of Labengau by Adalbert of Ivrea, son 
of King Berenger II of Italy in 974. Built a castle at Warcq in 971
Adherent of Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine
Enemy of Archbishop Adalbero of Reims
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_I,_Count_of_Chiny
Otto I (Eudes) (d. 987), Count of Chiny, son of Adalbert I the Pious, Count of 
Vermandois, and Gerberge of Lorraine. Although he probably did not use the title, Otto 
is regarded as the first Count of Chiny.

Historically, an Otto of Vermandois is mentioned in a charter of 958 alongside his 
father, the Count of Vermandois. His name and that of his brother Ludolfe show a 
Germanic ancestry of the kings of the family of Saxony, which is indeed the case, as 
his mother is Gerberge of Lorraine, niece of Emperor Otto I (her mother being sister to 
Henry the Fowler). He was reported as a quarrelsome lord who threatened Hainaut and 
Cambrésis [the region around Cambrai]

In 971, an Otto erected a fortress in Warcq, in the Ardennes, and attacked his 
neighbors, including Adalbero, Archbishop of Reims. He is mentioned as having 
imperial ancestry. This data and a number of other facts prompted the historian Léon 
Vanderkindere to see in these two Ottos were in fact a single historical figure.

His wife’s name is unknown. It is possible that she was from Ardennes, a relative of 
Wigeric of Lotharingia and Cunigunda of France, granddaughter of Louis the 
Stammerer. This could explain the name of his son and the appointment of the latter 
as Count of Verdun in 1024. Otto and his wife had one child:
Louis I (d. 1025), Count of Chiny and Verdun.

Upon his death, Otto was succeeded as Count of Chiny by his son Louis.

Parents
____ Adalbert (Albert) I "the Pious" (ABT  917 - 8 Sep  987)
OF HAINAULT AND LORRAINE Gerberge (EST  933 -  978)

Siblings
____ Otto I (ABT  949 - )
____ Herbert III (ABT  955 - ABT 1005)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
    m. ABT  994 

Notes


Children by ----- ----- 
____ Louis I (ABT  995 - 29 Sep 1025)

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