List of Counts and Dukes of Valois

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Val d'Ois, the valley of the Oise river, was a feudal fief in what today is called as Picardie in Northern France. Its feudal entity derived feom holders of all or part of Picardie, particularly from counts of Amiens. see Valois.

Counts of Valois

Waleran, count count of the Vexin, died 956, became count of Amiens in right of his wife Adela, married 923

956-987 Walter I, also count of the Vexin and Amiens
987-1027 Walter II the White, also count of the Vexin and Amiens
1027-1035 Drogo, also count of the Vexin and Amiens
1035-1063 Walter III, also count of the Vexin, Maine, and Amiens
1063-1074 Ralph, also count of the Vexin and Amiens, whose third wife was Anne of Kiev, dowager queen of France (that marriage was childless)
1074-1077 Simon, also count of the Vexin and Amiens

To the royal domain in 1076 or 1077.

Herbert IV (–1080), Count of Vermandois and also received Valois
Eudes I the Insane (1080–1085), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, brother of previous.

Hugh I the Great (1085–1101), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of Henry I and Anne of Kiev.
Raoul I the Valiant (1102–1152), also known as Le Borgne, Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of previous.
Hugh II (1152–1160), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of Raoul I and Eléonore of Blois.
Raoul II (1160–1167), Count of Vermandois and of Valois, son of Raoul I and of Petronilla of Aquitaine.
Philip of Alsace (1167–1185), Count of Flanders (1168-1191), Count of Vermandois and of Valois by marriage

to the royal domain by king Philip II

Jean-Tristan (1269–1270)
in royal domain
Charles I (1284–1325)
Philip I (1325–1328)
in royal domain
Philip II (1344–1375)
in royal domain
Louis I (1386?–1406)

Dukes of Valois

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