Hugh I, Count of Ponthieu
Hugh I of Ponthieu, died circa 1000. He was also known as Hugo Miles. He was chosen by Hugh Capet, duke of France (not yet king), to be "advocate of the abbey of Saint-Riquier and castellan of Abbeville". He also received Hugh Capet's daughter, Gisela, in marriage. Hugh's origins are unknown, and the date which he received his fief is only "ascertainable within broad limits" as c. 980. He is not known to have ever styled himself Count of Ponthieu. Family
Hugh married c. 994 Gisèle Capet, daughter of Hugh Capet and Adelaide of Aquitaine. They had:
 Enguerrand I of Ponthieu was first to take the comital title  
Guy de Ponthieu, abbot of Foretmontiers

References

Sources

The Carmen de Hastingae Proelio of Bishop Guy of Amiens, edited by Catherine Morton and Hope Muntz, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1972. External links
 Stoyan
 Comtes de Ponthieu & de Clermont

Counts of Ponthieu
970s births
1000s deaths
11th-century French people
10th-century French people