Valois

Adelais

Married: Gauthier II "le Blanc"

Children:
Notes:
Adelais is "conjectured" to be the daughter of Herbert, count of Senlis (see La France dans sa splendeur vol 2 pp28-29 (Pierre Louvet, 1674) and Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France vol 2 p265 (Anselme de Sainte-Marie, 1726)). This Herbert is presumably the son of Bernard, count of Senlis, son of Pepin of Verrmandois, son of Bernard, king of Italy (see La France dans sa splendeur vol 2 pp26-27 (Pierre Louvet, 1674)). This supposed ancestry of Adelais is not well documented in primary sources.

In this act by Gauthier II, dated circa 1006, he names his wife, Adelaide. This charter is witnessed by two of their sons, Rodolfo and Drogon.
Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres vol 1 pp170-171 (ed. Benjamin Guérard, 1840)
        CAPITULUM XLIII.
      De consuetudine data a VValterio comite2.
Circa a. 1006.
  « In nomine sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis. Salubre atque utile et proficuum animæ nostræ judicamus, ut ex his quæ in præsenti seculo nobis a Deo collata sunt, Deo servientibus, pro salute animarum, concedamus. Quicquid enim in hoc mundo cernimus, momentaneum et transitorium et instabile omnino comprobamus. Iccirco ego VValterius1, gratia Dei, comes, ob profectum et salutem animæ meæ et conjugis meæ Adelidis filiorumque meorum, quicquid consuetudine temporali ad nos pertinere videtur de navibus Sancti Petri Jociacensis, per Sequanam transeuntibus prope nostrum castellum, quod vulgo dicitur Medanta, per deprecationem Mainardi abbatis et ceterorum fratrum, eidem loco concessimus; ea ratione ut neque ego, neque filii mei, vel aliquis ministrorum nostrorum, per succedentia tempora, accipere aliquid debeat. Quod si aliquis contra hoc nostræ largitionis donum insurgere temptaverit, maledictionis et anathematis vinculo obligatus, perpetuæ dampnationi subjaceat; et, quia cum benefactoribus partem habere noluit, cum blasphematoribus et persecutoribus Domini, et Juda traditore, Dathan quoque et Abiron, quos terra vivos absorbuit, in æternum dispereat. Et ut hoc nostræ auctoritatis præceptum inconvulsum permaneat, manu nostra illud subscriptione firmavimus, et manibus filiorum et fidelium nostrorum roborandum tradidimus. S. VValterii comitis. S. Rodulfi, filii ejus. S, Drogonis, filii ejus. S. VValterii militis. S. Rorigonis. S. Hugonis. S. Sansonis. S. Uberti. S. Hugonis. S. Addonis. S. Guadsonis. »
  2 Hujus chartæ tempus conjicitur ex charta Gemeticensi monasterio ab eodem Walterio, Velcassini comite, data, an 1006, de eodem vectigali a navigiis per Sequanam commeantibus exigendo. Vide l’Art de vérifier les dates, t. II, 682.
  1 Walterius II, Albus cognomine, Walterii I filius.
This roughly translates as:
        CHAPTER XLIII.
      On the custom given by count Walter2.
circa 1006.
  « In the name of the holy and indivisible Trinity. We judge it wholesome and useful and profitable for our souls to grant from those things which have been bestowed upon us by God in this present world, serving God, for the salvation of souls. For whatever we see in this world, we prove to be momentary and transitory and altogether unstable. I, count Walter1, by the grace of God, for the progress and safety of my soul and that of my wife Adelaide and my children, hereby grant whatever temporal custom seems to pertain to us concerning the ships of Saint Peter Jociac, passing through the Seine near our castle, which is commonly called Medanta, through the supplication of abbot Maynard and the other brothers, in the same place; for the reason that neither I, nor my children, nor any of our ministers, should receive anything in succeeding times. But if anyone should attempt to rise up against this gift of our bounty, let him be bound by the bond of curse and anathema, and subject to perpetual damnation; and, because he would not have a part with the benefactors, let him perish for ever with the blasphemers and persecutors of the Lord, and with Judas the traitor, Dathan also and Abiron, whom the earth swallowed up alive. And that this precept of our authority may remain unshaken, we have confirmed it with our own hand by subscription, and have delivered it to be strengthened by the hands of our sons and faithful. Signed Walter the count. Signed Rodulf, his son. Signed Drogon, his son. Signed Walter the soldier. Signed Rorigon. Signed Hugh. Signed Sanson. Signed Uberto. Signed Hugh. Signed Addon. Signed Guadson. »
  2 The date of this charter is conjectured from a charter to the monastery of Gemeits by the same Walter, count of Vexin, dated 1006, concerning the same tax levied on ships passing through the Seine. See l'Art de vérifier les dates, t. II, 682.
  1 Walter II, surnamed White, son of Walter I.

Histoire de la maison de Chastillon sur Marne pp656-657 (André Du Chesne, 1621)
GAVTIER II. du nom ſurnommé le BLANC, fut Comte de Vexin, & d’Amiens, & s’allia par mariage auec ADELAIS, que ie conieƈture auoireſté fille de HERBERT Comte de Senlis, iſſu d’vn puiſné des Comtes de Vermandois. Car vn ancien Autheur eſcrit que ce GAVTIER fiſt baſtir le chaſteau de CRESPY en Valois du temps du Roy Robert. Et depuis, Roy Robert. Et depuis, ceux qu’on auoit appellez Comtes de Senlis ſe qualifierent Comtes de Creſpy, ou de Valois. De Gautier & d’Adelais, qui eſt Alix, vinrent trois fils & vne fille; ſçauoir eſt DREVX Comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, mentionné cy-apres, RAOVL Comte de Creſpy, duquel ſera auſſi parlé apres ſon frere; FOVQVES Eueſque d’Amiens; & N........mere de GVALERAN Comte de Meullent.
This roughly translates as:
Walter II, surnamed "the White," was Count of Vexin and Amiens; he married Adelais, whom I surmise to have been the daughter of Herbert, Count of Senlis (himself descended from a younger son of the Counts of Vermandois), for an ancient author records that this Walter built the castle of Crépy-en-Valois during the reign of King Robert. Subsequently, those who had been known as Counts of Senlis styled themselves Counts of Crépy or of Valois. From the union of Walter and Adelais (also known as Alix) came three sons and a daughter: namely, Dreux, Count of Vexin and Amiens (mentioned hereafter); Raoul, Count of Crépy (who will also be discussed after his brother); Foulques, Bishop of Amiens; and N........, mother of Waleran, Count of Meulan.

La France dans sa splendeur vol 2 pp28-29 (Pierre Louvet, 1674)
Gautier I. du nom, Comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, qui vinoit és années 965. & 987. lequel épouſa Eve, fille & heritiere de Landry Comte de Dreux, & en eut Gautier II. qui épouſa Adelais, fille de Herbert Comte de Senlis. Ce fut ce Gautier qui fit bâtir le Château de Creſpy en Valois, du témps du Roy Robert. Ils eurent trois fils & une fille, Dreux Comte de Vexin & d’Amiens: Raoul Comte de Creſpy; Fouques Evêque d’Amiens, & N. mere de Galeran, Comte de Meulant. 
This roughly translates as:
Gautier I, the first of that name, Count of Vexin and Amiens, who flourished between the years 965 and 987, married Eve, daughter and heiress of Landry, Count of Dreux; by her, he had Gautier II, who married Adelais, daughter of Herbert, Count of Senlis. It was this Gautier who commissioned the construction of the Château de Crépy-en-Valois during the reign of King Robert. They had three sons and one daughter: Dreux, Count of Vexin and Amiens; Raoul, Count of Crépy; Fouques, Bishop of Amiens; and N., mother of Galeran, Count of Meulan.

Anselme notes that Adelais is "conjectured" to be the daughter of Herbert de Vermandois and heiress of the county of Crespy.
Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France vol 2 p265 (Anselme de Sainte-Marie, 1726)
III. GAUTIER II. du nom, ſurnommé le Blanc, comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, fit bâtir le chateau de Creſpy en Valois, du tems du roi Robert, & fonda en cette ville le monaſtere de S. Arnoul, l’an 1008.
  Femme, ADELAIS, que l'’on conjecture avoir été fille d’Herbert de Vermandois, comte de Senlis: l’on présume qu’elle herita du comté de Creſpy.
    1. DREUX, comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, qui fuit.
    2. RAOUL, comte de Creſpy, qui continua la lignée rapportée ci-après.
    3. FOUQUES d’Amiens, évêque d’Amiens en 997. …
    4. GUY d’Amiens, a été inconnu à du Chêne: mais la chronique de Corbie porte qu’il étoit frere de Fouques, évêque d’Amiens, auquel il ſucceda étant chanoine de cette église. … Il fut habile dans la poëſie Latine: Guillaume de Jumieges, & Orderie Vital, ſont mention d’un poëme de la façon de Guy, évêque d'Amiens, ſur la conquête d’Angleterre, par Guillaume, duc de Normandie. Il mourut en 1076.
    5. ADELE, femme de Robert, comte de Meulan..
This roughly translates as:
III. GAUTIER II. of that name, surnamed the White, count of Vexin and Amiens, built the château de Créspy-en-Valois during the reign of king Robert, and founded the monastery of Saint Arnoul in that city in the year 1008.
  Wife: ADELAIS, who is conjectured to have been the daughter of Herbert of Vermandois, count of Senlis; it is presumed that she inherited the county of Créspy.
    1. DREUX, count of Vexin and Amiens (see below).
    2. RAOUL, count of Créspy, who continued the lineage detailed hereafter.
    3. FOUQUES of Amiens, bishop of Amiens in 997...
    4. GUY of Amiens, was unknown to Du Chesne; however, the chronicle of Corbie records that he was the brother of Fouques, bishop of Amiens, whom he succeeded while serving as a canon of that church. … He was skilled in Latin poetry: William of Jumièges and Orderic Vital make mention of a poem composed by Guy, bishop of Amiens, concerning the conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy. He died in 1076.
    5. ADELE, wife of Robert, count of Meulan.

Sources:

Adele of Valois

Father: Raoul II of Valois

Mother: Aelis, countess of Bar-sur-Aube

Married: Heribert IV

Children:
Notes:
Adele of Valois was the daughter of Raoul II, count of Crépy and Valois, and his first wife, Alix, the countess of Bar-sur-Aube. She married Heribert IV, count of Vermandois. When her brother, Simon of Crépy, abdicated his secular titles to enter a monastery, Heribert claimed the county of Valois jure uxoris (in right of his wife).

Adele ("Alida"), and her children Eudon and Alida are named in the will of her husband, Heribert IV, dated 1059.
Histoire de l'Abbaye Notre-Dame de Vermand pp10-13 (Georges Lecocq, 1875)
Domini nostri anno millesimo-quinquagesima nono, Ego Herbertus Vermandensium et Vadascorum comes, … et de consultu Alidæ conjugis meæ carissimæ, testamentum meum condidi, … Ne vero quis hæredum huic meæ ultimæ voluntati contradicere præsumat, coram me advocari jussi filium meum Eudonem quem diù consilio et bene placito meo rebellem, Magnatum interventu, paulo ante in gratiam receperam; qui tandem meæ voci obediens adstantibus filiis suis, Eudone, Elebando et Sohiro, dixit et promisit se cum suis nihil unquam contra has elemosynas tentaturum. Idemque promisit Alida sponsa mea cujus nutui ac dispositioni omnia cœtera bona mea anteà ex amore per codicillum reliqueram. Ad hæc etiam annuit Alida filia mea dilectissima.
This roughly translates as:
In the year of the same Lord one thousand and fifty-nine, I Herbert, Count of Vermandois and Vadas, … and with the advice of my dearest wife Alida, I have made my will, … Lest any heir presume to contradict this last will of mine, I have ordered my son Eudon to be summoned before me, whom I had received into favor a little while before, by divine counsel and with my good pleasure, a rebel, through the intervention of Magnatus; who at length obeyed my voice, with his sons, Eudon, Elebandus, and Sohirus, present, and promised that he and his family would never attempt anything against these alms. My spouse Alida, to whose will and disposition I had previously left all my other goods out of love by codicil, promised the same. My most beloved daughter Alida also agreed to this.

The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names Adele's mother and father
Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS 23 p793 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Reliquerat autem comes Rodulfus ex uxore sua, que dicta est Adala, filium bone indolis nomine Symonem et filiam nomine Alaidem. Hic est Symon vir sanctus, qui primo consul et regis Francorum primipilus, postea monachus probatissimus effectus. Cum Mellentinus comes Robertus ducere voluisset filiam Hugonis Crispeiensis comitis, natam de sorore huius Symonis, Yvo in epistolis suis contra proponit, dicens etc.: Gauterus Albus de Albemarla genuit matrem Waleranni comitis, qui genuit matrem Roberti comitis Mellentini. Idem Gauterus Albus genuit Rodulfum, patrem Rodulfi, qui genuit Veromandensem comitissam, scilicet Adalam, ex qua nata est Alais, uxor comitis Hugonis, cuius filiam ducere vult comes Robertus Mellentinus.
This roughly translates as:
Now count Rudolf had left by his wife, who was called Adala, a good-natured son named Simon and a daughter named Alaide. This is Simon, a holy man, who was first consul and first-in-command of the French kings, and afterwards became a most approved monk. When count Robert of Mellentin wished to marry the daughter of count Hugh of Crispi, born of the sister of this Simon, Yves in his letters proposes against it, saying etc.: Gauther Albus de Albemarle begot the mother of count Waleran, who begot the mother of count Robert of Mellentin. The same Gauther the White begat Rudolph, the father of Rudolph, who begat a countess of Vermand, namely Adala, from whom was born Alais, the wife of count Hugh, whose daughter count Robert Mellentine wishes to marry.

Mémoires pour l’histoire du Vermandois vol 1 pp623-626 (Louis-Paul Colliette, 1771)
  Le ſeizieme Comte-Abbé de Saint-Quentin fut Hébert IV, Ce Seigneur … épousa Adéle, que d’autres nomment Hildébrante, fille de Raoul II [aliàs Raoul III] comte de Crépy en Valois, & ſeigneur de pluſieurs autres villes, châteaux & comtés. Comes Criſpeius, Creſpienſis, Creſpeïcus, Vadenſis. … Cette alliance priſe dans une famille extrêmement noble, puiſqu’elle ſortoit de Charlemagne par les femmes, mit le comble à la grandeur de nos Comtes, & fit tomber, dans leur maiſon, des biens immenſes & des dignités conſidérables.
…  On ne doit pas croire que l’épouſe d’Hébert IV, Adéle de Crépy, ſortit du ſecond mariage de ſon pere Raoul III: les auteurs du temps rapportent que c’eſt de ſon premier lit.
…  Parmi les excellentes qualités qui brillerent en Hébert IV, ſon inſigne piété envers les Saints le rendit infiniment illuſtre. La collégiale des chanoines de la ville de Roye, au diocese d’Amiens, que ce Comte a fondée & dotée, conjointement avec ſon épouſe, célébrera à jamais la générosité de ce couple fidele. 
This roughly translates as:
  The sixteenth Count-Abbot of Saint-Quentin was Herbert IV. This nobleman … married Adela, whom others call Hildebranda, the daughter of Ralph II [alias Ralph III], count of Crépy and Valois, and lord of several other towns, castles, and counties. Count Crispeius, Crespensis, Crespeïcus, Vadensis. … This alliance, contracted with an exceedingly noble family, for it traced its lineage back to Charlemagne through the female line, brought the grandeur of our Counts to its zenith, and brought into their house immense estates and considerable dignities.
… One must not suppose that the wife of Herbert IV, Adèle de Crépy, was born of her father Ralph III’s second marriage; contemporary authors report that she was born of his first marriage.
…  Among the excellent qualities that shone forth in Hébert IV, his signal piety toward the Saints rendered him infinitely illustrious. The collegiate church of canons in the town of Roye, situated in the diocese of Amiens, which this Count founded and endowed jointly with his wife, shall forever celebrate the generosity of this faithful couple.
p674
  L’expulſion d’Eudes du Comté de Vermandois, ſit tomber ſur ſa ſœur Adéle l’opulente ſucceſſion d’Hébert IV & d’Adéle de Crépy, leurs parens communs. Cette tranſportation fut jugée & approuvée par les principaux Seigneurs de leurs provinces; & le Roi Philippe Ier en confirma, par son autorité ſuprême, le décret. Ce Prince favoriſoit en cela même ſenſiblement ſon frere Hugues, auquel la Comteſſe de Vermandois portoit ſes biens & ſes dignités, par une ſuite de l’alliance qu’elle avoit contraƈtée avec lui.
This roughly translates as:
  The expulsion of Odo from the County of Vermandois caused the opulent inheritance of Herbert IV and Adele of Crépy, their common kinsfolk, to devolve upon his sister, Adele. This transfer was adjudicated and approved by the principal lords of their provinces, and King Philip I, by virtue of his supreme authority, confirmed the decree. In doing so, the King significantly favored his own brother, Hugh, upon whom the Countess of Vermandois bestowed her estates and dignities as a consequence of the alliance she had contracted with him.

The Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th edition vol 27 p1024 (ed. Hugh Chisholm, 1911)
  VERMANDOIS. … Albert I., Herbert III., Albert II., Otto and Herbert IV., were unimportant. In 1077 the last male of the first house of Vermandois, Herbert IV., received the countship of Valois in right of his wife. He died soon afterwards, leaving his inheritance to his daughter Adela, whose first husband was Hugh the Great, the brother of king Philip I.

Sources:

Edelgarde

Married: Gualeran

Children:
Notes:
This charter by Eldegarde dated c. 981 mentions her deceased husband Gualeran ("VValerauni") and her son, count Gauthier ("VValterio")
Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres vol 1 p87-88 (ed. Benjamin Guérard, 1840)
        CAPITULUM V.
    De Gunherii Villa data a comitissa Eldegarde.
  «Laudanda2 et nimium prædicanda est ineffabilis misericordia Conditoris nostri qui, redemptis precio sui sanguinis et unda sacri baptismatis originali crimine mundatis, prævidens et præsciens post ista omnia, nec unius diei spacium a qualicumque peccato vivere immunem nec humanæ corruptionis labem posse quemquam evadere, contulit multa animæ salutis remedia quibus non solum viciorum curantur morbida, set etiam inmortalitatis adquiruntur gaudia. Inter quæ elemosinarum plurimum valet largitas, cui non solum plurimorum patrum astipulatur auctoritas, set etiam ipsius Domini voce laudaturbeata dicentis: Dimittite et dimittemini, et quæcumque feceritis uni ex minimis, michi exibebitis. Super his etiam quidam sapiens dicit: Redemptio animæ viri, propriæ divitiæ ejus, et illud: Date elemosinam, et omnia munda sunt vobis. Et multa his similia inveniuntur in dando elemosinam adhortationum præcipua, in quibus longum est ire per singula. Talibus instructa exortationibus precedentium patrum non improbanda devotio utpote filii æcclesiæ multis prediorum suorum reditibus eandem dotaverunt æcclesiam et multa ei contulerunt variis necessitatibus profutura, quibus per quadripertitum decoratur orbem et rerum opulentia dilatatur, gaudet et exultat. Horum ego Eldegardis exempla secuta proposui in corde meo qualiter de prædiorum meorum possessionibus hereditariam facerem sanctam Dei ecclesiam. Verum, quia beato Petro apostolo specialiter conlata est potestas solvendi atque ligandi, nullum melius censui michi consulendum et pro peccatis meis aput eum quem tanto dilexit amore misericorditer intercedendum. Ergo, tam pro meis criminibus veniam impetrandis quam pro senioris mei VValerauni, ut utrisque Dominus indulgere dignetur peccatorum remissionem, consentiente VValterio comite filio meo, cedo ad locum Sancti Petri Carnotensis alodum juris mei, quem senior meus supra nominatus, secundum legem salicam et secundum consuetudinem qua viri proprias uxores dotant, michi in propriam concessit, nomine Guntherii Villa, et de dominatione mea in dominationem monachorum ibidem servientium perpetualiter transfundo atque transcribo. Sunt autem mansi VIII, habens unusquisque bonuarios XX. Si quis vero contra hanc donationem (quod absit) venire aut eam infringere temptaverit, aut aliquam inferre calumniam, Dei omnipotentis indignationem inrecuperabiliter, nisi cito resipuerit, offendat; et æternaliter infernalibus detrudatur cruciatibus, ubi vermis, qui nunquam moritur, eorum conrodat carnes, et ignis, qui nunquam extinguitur, eorum semper pascatur cruciatibus. Ut autem hæc donatio inviolabilem obtineat firmitatem, domni Hugonis, Francorum ducis, et nobilium virorum sibi adsidentium manibus corroborare congruum duxi, stipulatione subnixa. Actum Pontis Isera castro, publice. S. Hugonis ducis. S. Walterii comitis.»
  2 Annum 981 huic chartæ assignant Annales Benedictini t. IV p. 3.
This roughly translates as:
        CHAPTER V.
    Of the Village of Gunher given by countess Eldegarde.
  «2The ineffable mercy of our Creator is to be praised and greatly preached, who, having redeemed us with the price of his blood and cleansed us from the original crime by the water of holy baptism, foreseeing and foreknowing that after all this, no one can live a single day free from any sin or escape the stain of human corruption, has bestowed many remedies for the salvation of the soul, by which not only are the diseases of vice cured, but also the joys of immortality are acquired. Among which the generosity of alms is of the greatest value, to which is pledged not only the authority of many fathers, but also the blessed voice of the Lord himself, who says: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and whatever you do to one of the least of these, you will forgive me. On these also a wise man says: The redemption of a man's soul is his own riches, and that: Give alms, and all things are clean to you. And many similar things are found in the giving of alms, the chief exhortations, in which it is long to go through each one. Equipped with such exhortations of the preceding fathers, the devotion is not to be disapproved, since the sons of the church endowed the same church with many of the incomes of their estates and contributed much to it that would benefit various needs, by which the world is adorned through the fourfold division and the opulence of things is expanded, rejoices and exults.Following the examples of these, I, Eldegard, proposed in my heart how I would make the holy church of God hereditary from the possessions of my estates. But since the power of loosing and binding was specially conferred on the blessed apostle Peter, I thought of no better one to consult and to mercifully intercede for my sins with him whom he loved with such love. Therefore, both for the sake of obtaining pardon for my crimes and for that of my husband Waleraun, so that the Lord may deign to indulge the remission of sins in both, with the consent of my son count Walter, I give to the place of Saint Peter of Chartres a portion of my right, which my husband above named, according to the Salic law and according to the custom by which men endow their own wives, granted to me as my own, in the name of Gunther Village, and I transfer and assign from my dominion to the dominion of the monks serving there in perpetuity. Now there are 8 manors, each having 20 bonniers of land. But if anyone (which is far from it) comes against this donation or attempts to infringe it, or to bring any calumny, he will incur the wrath of almighty God irretrievably, unless he quickly repents; and he will be eternally thrust into hellish torments, where the worm that never dies will gnaw at their flesh, and the fire that is never extinguished will always feed on their torments. But so that this donation may obtain an inviolable firmness, I have deemed it appropriate to confirm it by the hands of lord Hugh, duke of the Franks, and the noble men who assist him, supported by a stipulation. Act of Pont-Isera castle, publicly. Signed duke Hugh. Signed count Walter.»
  2 The Annales Benedictini assign the year 981 to this charter, t. IV p. 3.

The hagiography of Simon, written in the early 12th century, contains information about his ancestors, one of whom is named as Heldegard, who is then stated to be the daughter of Adela who was the daughter of Heribert [II}, son of Heribert [I]. This ancestry of Eldegarde is suspect as the Hildegarde. daughter of Adela, daughter of Heribert II (and the wife of Arnulf, count of Flanders). is more commonly thought to have married Dirk II, count of Holland. Even the name Adela as the wife of Heribert II is questioned - she is more solidly represented just as the daughter of king Robert I.
De S. Simone Comite et Monachio in Acta Sanctorum Septembris vol 8 p718 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Rodulfo, S. Simonis genitori, Vilcassino, Crespeiensi et Barrensi ad Albam comiti, pater fuit Rodulfus senior, avus Walterius eo nomine secundus, proavus Walterius I, abavus Gualerannus; abavia Heldegardis, quæ per matrem Adelam, avum Herbertum Viromandiæ, comitem, proavum alium Herbertum, abavum Bernardum Italiæ regem, atavum Pippinum Gibbosum italiæ quoque regem et Karoli Magni filium, tritavum habuit ipsum Karolum magnum.
This roughly translates as:
To Rodolfo, the parent of St. Simon, count of Vilcassino, Crespiensi and Barrensi ad Alba, the father was Rodolfo the elder, grandfather Walter the second of that name, great-grandfather Walter I, great-grandfather Gualerannus; great-grandmother Heldegard, who through her mother Adela, grandfather Herbert of Vermandois, count, great-grandfather another Herbert, great-great-grandfather Bernard, king of Italy, great-great-great-grandfather Pepin the Short, also king of Italy and son of Charlemagne, had great-great-great-great-grandfather Charlemagne himself.

Du Chesne states that he suspects Eledegarde was the ocuntess of Amiens. Pierre Louvet copies this statiung it as a fact, and by Anselme de Sainte-Marie, who states it to a conjecture.
Histoire de la maison de Chastillon sur Marne p656 (André Du Chesne, 1621)
Le premier donc qui ietta les fondements de ceſte puiſſante & illuſtre Famille fut GVALERAN Comte de Vvexin le François, ou pour parler plus ouuertement, Comte de Ponthoiſe, de Chaumont, de Mante, & de Meullent. Il florit ſoubs les Roys Louys d’Outremer & Lothaire ſon fils, & eſpouſa EDELGARDE que ie ſoupçonne auoir eſté Comteſſe d’Amiens: dont naſquit GAVTIER I.
This roughly translates as:
The first, then, to lay the foundations of this powerful and illustrious family was Waleran, Count of French Vexin or, to speak more plainly, Count of Pontoise, Chaumont, Mantes, and Meulan. He flourished under King Louis d’Outremer and his son Lothair, and married Edelgarde, whom I suspect to have been Countess of Amiens, by whom he had a son, Walter I.

La France dans sa splendeur vol 2 p28 (Pierre Louvet, 1674)
LA Maiſon des anciens Comtes de Valois a pris ſon origine des Côtes du Vexin; le premier qui jetta les fondemens de cette puiſſante & illuſtre Famille fut Gualeran, Cóte du Vexin François, ou pour parler plus clairement, Comte de Pontoiſe, de Chaumont, de Mante & de Meulant. Il vivoit ſous les Rois Loüis d’Outremer & Lothaire ſon fils. Il épouſa Edelgarde, Comteſſe d'Amiens, dont leur nâquit Gautier I. du nom, Comte de Vexin & d’Amiens
This roughly translates as:
The House of the ancient Counts of Valois traces its origins to the Counts of Vexin; the first to lay the foundations of this powerful and illustrious family was Waleran, Count of French Vexin, or, to speak more clearly, Count of Pontoise, Chaumont, Mantes, and Meulan. He lived during the reigns of Kings Louis IV d’Outremer and his son, Lothair. He married Edelgarde, Countess of Amiens, with whom he had Gautier I, the first of that name, Count of Vexin and Amiens

Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France vol 2 p265 (Anselme de Sainte-Marie, 1726)
I. GUALERAN, comte de Vexin ou de Pontoiſe, Chaumont, Mante & Meulan, que l’on appelle le Vexin - François, vivoit dans le x. ſiécle, ſous les rois Louis d’Outremer & Lothaire ſon fils.
  Femme, EDELGARDE, que l’on conjeƈture avoir été comteſſe d'Amiens.
    D'elle nâquit,
II. GAUTIER I.
This roughly translates as:
I. GUALERAN, count of Vexin (or of Pontoise, Chaumont, Mantes, and Meulan, the region known as the French Vexin), lived in the 10th century, under the kings Louis d’Outremer and Lothair, his son.
  Wife: EDELGARDE, who is conjectured to have been countess of Amiens.
    Born of this union,
II. GAUTIER I.

Sources:

Gualeran

Married: Edelgarde

Children:
Occupation: Count of Pontoise, Chaumont, Mantes, and Meulan

Notes:
Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres vol 1 p55 (ed. Benjamin Guérard, 1840)
  « Auxiliante Christo domino et salvatore nostro, VValterius3, comes Dorcassini comitatus. …
  3 Walterius I, comes Dorcassinus et Velcassinus, comitis Walerani filius, S. Dionysii advocatus, cujus ante hanc chartam nulla mentio est in historia, alia deinde largitus diversis monasteriis, vivebat adhuc anno 987.
This roughly translates as:
  « With the help of Christ our Lord and savior, Walter3, count of Dreux. …
  3 Walter I, count of Dreux and Vexin, son of Count Waleran, advocate of St. Denis, of whom there is no mention in history before this charter, but who afterwards gave other gifts to various monasteries, was still living in the year 987.

The hagiography of Simon, written in the early 12th century, contains information about his ancestors, one of whom was Gualeran.
De S. Simone Comite et Monachio in Acta Sanctorum Septembris vol 8 p718 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Rodulfo, S. Simonis genitori, Vilcassino, Crespeiensi et Barrensi ad Albam comiti, pater fuit Rodulfus senior, avus Walterius eo nomine secundus, proavus Walterius I, abavus Gualerannus; abavia Heldegardis, quæ per matrem Adelam, avum Herbertum Viromandiæ, comitem, proavum alium Herbertum, abavum Bernardum Italiæ regem, atavum Pippinum Gibbosum italiæ quoque regem et Karoli Magni filium, tritavum habuit ipsum Karolum magnum.
This roughly translates as:
To Rodolfo, the parent of St. Simon, count of Vilcassino, Crespiensi and Barrensi ad Alba, the father was Rodolfo the elder, grandfather Walter the second of that name, great-grandfather Walter I, great-grandfather Gualerannus; great-grandmother Heldegard, who through her mother Adela, grandfather Herbert of Vermandois, count, great-grandfather another Herbert, great-great-grandfather Bernard, king of Italy, great-great-great-grandfather Pepin the Short, also king of Italy and son of Charlemagne, had great-great-great-great-grandfather Charlemagne himself.

Histoire de la maison de Chastillon sur Marne p656 (André Du Chesne, 1621)
Le premier donc qui ietta les fondements de ceſte puiſſante & illuſtre Famille fut GVALERAN Comte de Vvexin le François, ou pour parler plus ouuertement, Comte de Ponthoiſe, de Chaumont, de Mante, & de Meullent. Il florit ſoubs les Roys Louys d’Outremer & Lothaire ſon fils, & eſpouſa EDELGARDE que ie ſoupçonne auoir eſté Comteſſe d’Amiens: dont naſquit GAVTIER I.
This roughly translates as:
The first, then, to lay the foundations of this powerful and illustrious family was Waleran, Count of French Vexin or, to speak more plainly, Count of Pontoise, Chaumont, Mantes, and Meulan. He flourished under King Louis d’Outremer and his son Lothair, and married Edelgarde, whom I suspect to have been Countess of Amiens, by whom he had a son, Walter I.

La France dans sa splendeur vol 2 p28 (Pierre Louvet, 1674)
LA Maiſon des anciens Comtes de Valois a pris ſon origine des Côtes du Vexin; le premier qui jetta les fondemens de cette puiſſante & illuſtre Famille fut Gualeran, Cóte du Vexin François, ou pour parler plus clairement, Comte de Pontoiſe, de Chaumont, de Mante & de Meulant. Il vivoit ſous les Rois Loüis d’Outremer & Lothaire ſon fils. Il épouſa Edelgarde, Comteſſe d'Amiens, dont leur nâquit Gautier I. du nom, Comte de Vexin & d’Amiens
This roughly translates as:
The House of the ancient Counts of Valois traces its origins to the Counts of Vexin; the first to lay the foundations of this powerful and illustrious family was Waleran, Count of French Vexin, or, to speak more clearly, Count of Pontoise, Chaumont, Mantes, and Meulan. He lived during the reigns of Kings Louis IV d’Outremer and his son, Lothair. He married Edelgarde, Countess of Amiens, with whom he had Gautier I, the first of that name, Count of Vexin and Amiens

Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France vol 2 p265 (Anselme de Sainte-Marie, 1726)
I. GUALERAN, comte de Vexin ou de Pontoiſe, Chaumont, Mante & Meulan, que l’on appelle le Vexin - François, vivoit dans le x. ſiécle, ſous les rois Louis d’Outremer & Lothaire ſon fils.
  Femme, EDELGARDE, que l’on conjeƈture avoir été comteſſe d'Amiens.
    D'elle nâquit,
II. GAUTIER I.
This roughly translates as:
I. GUALERAN, count of Vexin (or of Pontoise, Chaumont, Mantes, and Meulan, the region known as the French Vexin), lived in the 10th century, under the kings Louis d’Outremer and Lothair, his son.
  Wife: EDELGARDE, who is conjectured to have been countess of Amiens.
    Born of this union,
II. GAUTIER I.

Sources:

Gauthier I

Father: Gualeran

Mother: Edelgarde

Married (1st): Eve

Children:
Married (2nd): Adela

This marriage had occurred by 987, when Adela is noted in a document as the wife of Gauthier, although in another of Gauthier's charters dated to c. 986, he is still married to Eve.

Occupation: Count of of Dreux, Vexin and Amiens, and advocate of St. Denis

Notes:
In this act by Gauthier I, dated 965, he names his "predecessor" count Landry, who was his first wife's father.
Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres vol 1 pp55-56 (ed. Benjamin Guérard, 1840)
        CAPITULUM PRIMUM.
      De ecclesia Sancti Georgii sancto Petro data.
  «Auxiliante Christo domino et salvatore nostro, VValterius3, comes Dorcassini comitatus. Notum esse volumus omnibus sanctæ Dei æcclesiæ fidelibus tam presentibus quamque futuris, quia adiit nostram præsentiam nobilis vassallus Teodfredus, postulans ut assensum ei præberemus super quandam æcclesiam beneficii ipsius, videlicet in honore sancti Georgii consecratam, quam ipse tradere disponebat monasterio Sancti Petri Carnotensis ubi præesse videtur Guibertus, humilis abbas. Siquidem eandem æcclesiam expetierunt ab eo monachi sancti Petri omnes in commune tradi sibi donatione perpetua, tali ratione et convenientia quali inter eos deliberatum est. Considerans igitur salubrem ejus petitionem, ejus voluntati libentissime annui, maxime propter animæ meæ remedium parentumque meorum et prædecessoris mei Landrici1 comitis; quod simili de causa confirmavit se idem facere Teodfredus, pro obtentu veniæ suorum parentumque peccatorum. Ad cavendam autem (quod minime credimus) subsequentium inimicorum calumniam, causa recognitionis, singulis annis, missa sancti Remigii quæ evenit kalendis octobris, trium solidorum pensionem solvere eis statuimus. Quod si quis contra hanc donationis traditionem venire temptaverit, aut aliquam calumniam ullo umquam tempore inferre voluerit, æcclesiastica dampnetur auctoritate, et episcopali percutiatur excommunicationis anathemate; nobis autem nostrisque successoribus, socio fisco coactus, v libras auri cocti emendando persolvat; monachis autem nullo umquam tempore usque in finem seculi nichil aliud exinde requiratur, nisi quod supra scriptum est. Itaque ut hæc notitiales litteræ stabilem et inconvulsam obtineant firmitatem, tam manu nostra quam Richardi ducis in cujus comitatu esse videtur, quam etiam nobilium laïcorum, subter roborare decrevimus. Actum Ebroico comitatu, publice. Signum VValterii comitis, hujus cartulæ auctoris. S. Teodfredi militis. S. Richardi ducis. — Anno ab incarnatione Domini DCCCCo LXo Vo, indictione VIIIa, regnante CLothario rege anno XI. Scripta est hæc donatio a levita Germano.»
  3 Walterius I, comes Dorcassinus et Velcassinus, comitis Walerani filius, S. Dionysii advocatus, cujus ante hanc chartam nulla mentio est in historia, alia deinde largitus diversis monasteriis, vivebat adhuc anno 987.
  1 Landricus ille, comes Dorcassinus pater erat Evæ, Walterii I uxoris, ex qua Walterius comitatum Dorcassinum tenebat, cum ex patre comes Velcassinus, ex matre autem Eldegarde Ambianensis jam esset.
This roughly translates as:
        CHAPTER ONE.
      Of the Church of St. George given to St. Peter.
  «With the help of Christ our Lord and savior, Walter3, count of Dreux. We wish it to be known to all the faithful of the holy church of God, both present and future, that the noble vassal Theodfred came to our presence, requesting that we give him our assent to a certain church of his benefice, namely, consecrated in honor of saint George, which he intended to give to the monastery of Saint Peter of Chartres, where Guibert, the humble abbot, seems to preside. For the monks of saint Peter all requested from him that the same church be given to them in common by perpetual donation, in such a manner and in such a manner as was agreed upon between them. Considering therefore his request salutary, I most gladly accede to his will, especially for the sake of the cure of my soul and that of my parents and of my predecessor count Landric1; which Theodfred confirmed for a similar reason that he would do the same, in order to obtain forgiveness for the sins of his own and his parents. But to guard against (which we do not believe at all) the calumny of subsequent enemies, for the sake of recognition, we have decided to pay them a pension of three solidi every year, on the feast of St. Remigius, which occurs on the kalends of October. But if anyone should attempt to go against this tradition of donation, or should at any time wish to bring about any calumny, let him be condemned by ecclesiastical authority, and be struck with the episcopal anathema of excommunication; but to us and our successors, compelled by the treasury, he shall pay five pounds of baked gold in compensation; but to the monks at no time at any time until the end of the world shall anything else be required of them from there, except what is written above. Therefore, so that these notional letters may obtain a stable and unshaken firmness, we have decided to reinforce them under our own hand, as well as that of duke Richard, in whose company he seems to be, and also of noble laymen. Done in the county of Évreux, publicly. Sign of count Walter, the author of this charter. Signed Theodfred the knight. Signed duke Richard. — In the year of the incarnation of the Lord 965, indiction VIII, in the eleventh year of the reign of King Lotario. This donation was written by a German Levite.»
  3 Walter I, count of Dreux and Vexin, son of Count Waleran, advocate of St. Denis, of whom there is no mention in history before this charter, but who afterwards gave other gifts to various monasteries, was still living in the year 987.
  1 That Landric, count of Dreux was the father of Eva, wife of Walter I, by whom Walter held the county of Dreux, since he was already count of Vexin by his father, and by his mother, Eldegarde of Amiens.
pp72-73
        CAPITULUM XIV.
      De æcclesia Ermenteriarum et de ommi terra quam emerant monachi Sancti Petri ab Archinulfo quodam milite.
  «In nomine Domini et salvatoris nostri Jhesu Christi. Comes VValterius, notum esse volumus omnibus tam præsentibus quam futuris, quia adierunt presentiam nostram monachi Sancti Petri Carnotensis, ut eis ex nostra parte concederetur, quatinus liceret eis comparare ecclesiam ex beneficio Archinulfi fidelis nostri, de cujus est beneficio nomine Ermenteriæ, simul cum omnibus in eadem villa et ejusdem Archinulfi beneficio pertinentibus. Quod, eo consentiente simul et precante, libenti animo annuimus. Terminatur autem ipsa terra ex uno latere fluvio Arvæ, altero latere via publica, una fronte fluviolo vulgari nomine Berlo vocitato, quarta fronte dividitur ipsa terra ab illa quæ continetur ab Evroldo Villare. Infra has terminationes, totum quod ibi continetur, concedimus, terras tam cultas quam incultas, tam eam quæ videtur esse silva, pro precio quod inter Archinulfum et monachos complacuit; ea ratione ut annis singulis in festivitate sancti Martini, quæ est III idus novembris, dent monachi Archinulfo, et post ejus obitum suis heredibus, solidos duos pro caritate et custodia loci; et nulla omnino alia res ab eis requiratur, atque æcclesiam omnemque terram quam diximus jure perpetuo, sine ulla calomnia, possideant ac teneant nunquamque ammittant; alteram autem æcclesiam, quæ in vicino est, Roheria dicta, pro animæ meæ remedio et uxoris meæ Evæ voluntariæ, ipsis concessimus. Etiamque Archinulfus, qui in eadem æcclesia partem habebat, cum filio suo Roscelino, exemplum nostrum secutus, eodem tenore similiter facit. Ut autem hee traditiones omni tempore firmæ et stabiles permaneant, secundum petitionem monachorum, conscriptionis cartam eis fecimus, et manu nostra ac fidelium nostrorum subterfirmare curavimus. Si quis igitur has donationes irritas facere voluerit, aut aliquo modo destruere, aut plus aliquid quam supra posuimus requirere, aut aliqua prava consuetudine habitatores gravare, iram Dei omnipotentis incurrat, et cum Dathan et Abiron atque Juda traditore et ipso Antichristo et angelis ejus infernalem dampnationem in flammam ignis æterni perpetualiter incurrat.
  Actum Drocis, publice.
  Walterius comes. Eva comitissa. Erchenulfus et Roscelinus, filius ejus, qui venditores et datores fuerunt præfatarum rerum. Albertus. Baldricus. Urso. Marcuardus. Salico. Hadebrandus. Gosfredus. Nanterus. Anseius. Rainardus presbiter. Anfredus. Erenbertus. Haimo. Gislebertus. Hubertus. Hugo. Emmo. Magenardus. Hilgaldus. Evrardus. Alo. Hugo.»
This roughly translates as:
        CHAPTER XIV.
      Of the church of Ermenteria and of all the land which the monks of Saint Peter had bought from Archinulf, a certain soldier.
  «In the name of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Count Walter, we wish it to be known to all, both present and future, that the monks of Saint Peter of Chartres have approached our presence, that it may be granted to them on our part, that they may be permitted to purchase a church by the benefice of our faithful Archinulf, from whose benefice the name of Ermenteria is, together with all those in the same town and belonging to the benefice of the same Archinulf. Which, with his consent and prayer, we consented with a willing heart. Now the land itself is bounded on one side by the river Arva, on the other side by a public road, on one front by a small stream commonly called Berlo, on the fourth front the land itself is divided from that which is held by Evrold Villar. Below these boundaries, we grant all that is contained therein, both cultivated and uncultivated lands, as well as that which appears to be forest, for the price agreed upon between Archinulf and the monks; on the condition that every year on the feast of Saint Martin, which is the 3rd day of the Ides of November, the monks give Archinulf, and after his death to his heirs, two solidi for charity and custody of the place; and that no other thing at all be required of them, and that they may possess and hold the church and all the land which we have mentioned by right in perpetuity, without any calumny, and never lose it; but we grant them another church, which is nearby, called Roheria, for the remedy of my soul and with the voluntary consent of my wife Eva. And Archinulf, who had a share in the same church, with his son Roscelin, following our example, does likewise in the same manner. But that these traditions may remain firm and stable at all times, according to the request of the monks, we have made a charter of conscription for them, and we have taken care to confirm it with our own hand and that of our faithful. If anyone therefore wishes to make these donations void, or in any way destroy them, or require anything more than we have set above, or burden the inhabitants with any wicked custom, let him incur the wrath of Almighty God, and with Dathan and Abiron and Judas the traitor and the Antichrist himself and his angels, let him incur the infernal damnation in the flame of eternal fire perpetually.
  Act of Droci, publicly.
  Count Walter. Countess Eva. Erchenulf and Roscelin, his son, who were the sellers and givers of the aforementioned things. Albert. Baldric. Urso. Marquard. Salico. Hadebrand. Gosfred. Nanter. Anseius. Rainard the presbyter. Anfred. Erenbert. Haimo. Gislebert. Hubert. Hugh. Emmo. Magenard. Hilgald. Evrard. Alo. Hugh.

This act, dated 987, is witnessed by Gauthier I, and his sons "Waltero, Rodulfo & Gozfrido".
Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France vol 10 p553 (1760)
S. (d) Walteri Comitis Ambianenſis ac filiorum ejus Walteri, Gotfredi, Rodulfi.
  (d) Hic est Walterus Comes, qui cum uxore ſua Adela filiiſque suis Waltero, Rodulfo & Gozfrido, Corbeienſi Monaſterio donavit villam Otmari curtis [Mericourt-l’abbé] in pago Ambian. quam villam Ermenfridus Comes Ambian, ejuſque frater, nomine Gozbertus, jam pridem S. Petro donare ſtatuerant: Aƈtum Ambianis anno Dom Incarn. DCCCCLXXXVII regnante Odone [L. Hugone].
This roughly translates as:
S. (d) Walter, Count of Amiens and his sons Walter, Gottfried, Rodolf.
  (d) This is Count Walter who, with his wife Adela and his sons Walter, Rodolf and Gosfrid, donated to the Monastery of Corbeil the village of Otmar's Court [Méricourt - the abbot] in the village of Amiens, which village Ermenfrid, Count of Amiens and his brother, named Gosbert, had long ago pledged to donate to St. Peter: At Amiens in the year of the Incarnation, 987, during the reign of Odo [L. Hugone].

The hagiography of Simon, written in the early 12th century, contains information about his ancestors, one of whom was Gauthier (written here as Walterius I).
De S. Simone Comite et Monachio in Acta Sanctorum Septembris vol 8 p718 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Rodulfo, S. Simonis genitori, Vilcassino, Crespeiensi et Barrensi ad Albam comiti, pater fuit Rodulfus senior, avus Walterius eo nomine secundus, proavus Walterius I, abavus Gualerannus; abavia Heldegardis, quæ per matrem Adelam, avum Herbertum Viromandiæ, comitem, proavum alium Herbertum, abavum Bernardum Italiæ regem, atavum Pippinum Gibbosum italiæ quoque regem et Karoli Magni filium, tritavum habuit ipsum Karolum magnum.
This roughly translates as:
To Rodolfo, the parent of St. Simon, count of Vilcassino, Crespiensi and Barrensi ad Alba, the father was Rodolfo the elder, grandfather Walter the second of that name, great-grandfather Walter I, great-grandfather Gualerannus; great-grandmother Heldegard, who through her mother Adela, grandfather Herbert of Vermandois, count, great-grandfather another Herbert, great-great-grandfather Bernard, king of Italy, great-great-great-grandfather Pepin the Short, also king of Italy and son of Charlemagne, had great-great-great-great-grandfather Charlemagne himself.

Histoire de la maison de Chastillon sur Marne p656 (André Du Chesne, 1621)
GAVTIER I. du nom Comte de Vvexin & d’Amiens. Ceſtui-cy viuoit és années neuf cents ſoixante-cinq, & neuf cents quatre-vingts ſept; & priſt à femme EVE, qui ſemble auoir eſté fille & heritiere de LANDRY Comte de Dreux. Car i’ay veu des Chartes, par leſquelles Gautier ſon mary s’intitule Comte de Dreux, & fait mention de Landry ſon predeceſſeur en icelle Comté. Tant y a que de luy & d’Eue fortirent quatre fils; ſçauoir eſt GAVTIER, qui cõtinua la ligneé; GEOFROY, parauenture Comte de Dreux; RAOVL, & GVY Eueſque de Soiſſons.
This roughly translates as:
Walter I, Count of Vexin and Amiens. He was living between the years 965 and 987 and married Eve, who appears to have been the daughter and heiress of Landry, Count of Dreux; for I have seen charters in which Walter, her husband, styles himself Count of Dreux and makes mention of Landry as his predecessor in that county. In any event, four sons were born to him and Eve: namely Walter, who continued the lineage; Geoffrey, possibly Count of Dreux; Raoul; and Guy, Bishop of Soissons.

La France dans sa splendeur vol 2 pp28-29 (Pierre Louvet, 1674)
LA Maiſon des anciens Comtes de Valois a pris ſon origine des Côtes du Vexin; le premier qui jetta les fondemens de cette puiſſante & illuſtre Famille fut Gualeran, Cóte du Vexin François, ou pour parler plus clairement, Comte de Pontoiſe, de Chaumont, de Mante & de Meulant. Il vivoit ſous les Rois Loüis d’Outremer & Lothaire ſon fils. Il épouſa Edelgarde, Comteſſe d'Amiens, dont leur nâquit Gautier I. du nom, Comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, qui vinoit és années 965. & 987. lequel épouſa Eve, fille & heritiere de Landry Comte de Dreux, & en eut Gautier II. qui épouſa Adelais, fille de Herbert Comte de Senlis.
This roughly translates as:
The House of the ancient Counts of Valois traces its origins to the Counts of Vexin; the first to lay the foundations of this powerful and illustrious family was Waleran, Count of French Vexin, or, to speak more clearly, Count of Pontoise, Chaumont, Mantes, and Meulan. He lived during the reigns of Kings Louis IV d’Outremer and his son, Lothair. He married Edelgarde, Countess of Amiens, with whom he had Gautier I, the first of that name, Count of Vexin and Amiens, who flourished between the years 965 and 987; the latter married Eve, daughter and heiress of Landry, Count of Dreux and by her had Gautier II, who married Adelais, daughter of Herbert, Count of Senlis.

Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France vol 2 p265 (Anselme de Sainte-Marie, 1726)
II. GAUTIER I. du nom, comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, qui vivoit en 965. & 987. & en 995. qu’il reſtitua à l’abbaïe de Saint Creſpin à Soiſſons, certaines terres ſcites en Valois, preſents ſes fils Gautier & Raoul.
  Femme, EVE, qui ſemble avoir été fille & heritiere de Landry, comte de Dreux; cette vrai-ſemblance eſt fondée ſur des chartes, où Gautier ſon mari prend le titre de comte de Dreux, & fait mention de Landry, ſon prédécesseur en ce comté.
    1. GAUTIER II. du nom, comte de Vexin, qui fuit.
    2. GODEFROY, qui peut avoir été comte de Dreux.
    3. RAOUL, dont on ne trouve que le nom.
    4. GUY, surnommé d’Amiens, évêque de Soiſſons, qui en 972. fut donné en ôtage avec l’évêque de Beauvais, au duc de Normandie, pour le roi Loüis V. il mourut en 995.
This roughly translates as:
II. GAUTIER I. of that name, count of Vexin and Amiens, who was living in 965, 987, and 995, at which latter date he restored certain lands situated in Valois to the abbey of Saint-Crépin in Soissons, in the presence of his sons, Gauthier and Raoul.
  Wife, EVE, who appears to have been the daughter and heiress of Landry, count of Dreux; this likelihood is based upon charters in which Gautier, her husband, assumes the title of count of Dreux and makes mention of Landry as his predecessor in that county.
    1. GAUTIER II. of that name, count of Vexin (see below).
    2. GODEFROY, who may have been count of Dreux.
    3. RAOUL, of whom nothing is known save his name.
    4. GUY, surnamed "of Amiens," bishop of Soissons; in 972, he was given as a hostage, along with the Bishop of Beauvais, to the duke of Normandy on behalf of King Louis V. He died in 995.

Death: 14 January, before 998 (and after 987, when he witnesses a document)

Cartulaire de Notre-Dame de Chartres vol 3 p21 (Eugène de Lépinois and Lucien Merlet, 1865)
NECROLOGIUM INSIGNIS ECCLESIÆ BEATÆ MARIÆ CARNUTENSIS.
        XIX KALENDAS FEBRUARII (14 janvier).
  l. — Obiit Walterius1, comes, et reliquit fratribus Sancte-Marie alodos suos qui sunt in pago Dorcasino et Carnoto; ea ratione ut memoria ejus celebretur in ecclesia Sancte-Marię perpetualiter;
  1 Peut-être cet obiit conceme-t-il un des trois Gauthier, comtes de Vexin, dont le premier (965-985) avait épousé Eve, fille de Landry, comte de Dreux.
This roughly translates as:
NECROLOGY OF THE DISTINGUISHED CHURCH OF BLESSED MARY OF CHARTRES.
      19th KALENDS OF FEBRUARY (14 January).
  1. — Walter1, count, died, and he left to the brothers of Saint Mary his allodial lands which are in the region of Dreux and Chartres; so that his memory may be celebrated in the church of Saint-Marie perpetually;
  1 Perhaps this death concerns one of the three Gauthiers, counts of Vexin, the first of whom (965-985) had married Eve, daughter of Landry, count of Dreux.

Recueil des historiens de la France: Obituaires de la province de Sens vol 2 p180 (1906)
Abbaye de Saint-Père-en-Vallée … [14 jan.] XIX kal. febr. Ob. … Gualterius, comes Dorcassini castri, qui dedit Sancto Petro ecclesiam Roherię(6).
  (6) Donation de 989 (Cartul., 72-73).
This roughly translates as:
Abbey of Saint-Père-en-Vallée … [14 Jan.] 19th Kalends February. Died … Walter, count of Derux castle, who gave to Saint Peter the church of Roheria(6).
  (6) Donation of 989 (Cartul., 72-73).

Recueil des historiens de la France: Obituaires de la province de Sens vol 1 p248 (1902)
Abbaye de Saint-Germain-des-Prés … [14] XVIIII kal. febr. Dep. … Gaulterii comitis (7)
(7) Comte de Vexin, mort avant 998.
This roughly translates as:
Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés … [14] 19th Kalends of February [14 January] Parting from … count Gauthier(7)
(7) Count of Vexin, died before 998.

Sources:

Gauthier II "le Blanc"

Father: Gauthier I

Mother: Eve

Married: Adelais

Children:
Occupation: count of Valois, the Vexin, Amiens, Dreux, and Meulan

Notes:
In this act by Gauthier II, dated circa 1006, he names his wife, Adelaide. This charter is witnessed by two of his sons, Rodolfo and Drogon.
Cartulaire de l’abbaye de Saint-Père de Chartres vol 1 pp170-171 (ed. Benjamin Guérard, 1840)
        CAPITULUM XLIII.
      De consuetudine data a VValterio comite2.
Circa a. 1006.
  « In nomine sanctæ et individuæ Trinitatis. Salubre atque utile et proficuum animæ nostræ judicamus, ut ex his quæ in præsenti seculo nobis a Deo collata sunt, Deo servientibus, pro salute animarum, concedamus. Quicquid enim in hoc mundo cernimus, momentaneum et transitorium et instabile omnino comprobamus. Iccirco ego VValterius1, gratia Dei, comes, ob profectum et salutem animæ meæ et conjugis meæ Adelidis filiorumque meorum, quicquid consuetudine temporali ad nos pertinere videtur de navibus Sancti Petri Jociacensis, per Sequanam transeuntibus prope nostrum castellum, quod vulgo dicitur Medanta, per deprecationem Mainardi abbatis et ceterorum fratrum, eidem loco concessimus; ea ratione ut neque ego, neque filii mei, vel aliquis ministrorum nostrorum, per succedentia tempora, accipere aliquid debeat. Quod si aliquis contra hoc nostræ largitionis donum insurgere temptaverit, maledictionis et anathematis vinculo obligatus, perpetuæ dampnationi subjaceat; et, quia cum benefactoribus partem habere noluit, cum blasphematoribus et persecutoribus Domini, et Juda traditore, Dathan quoque et Abiron, quos terra vivos absorbuit, in æternum dispereat. Et ut hoc nostræ auctoritatis præceptum inconvulsum permaneat, manu nostra illud subscriptione firmavimus, et manibus filiorum et fidelium nostrorum roborandum tradidimus. S. VValterii comitis. S. Rodulfi, filii ejus. S, Drogonis, filii ejus. S. VValterii militis. S. Rorigonis. S. Hugonis. S. Sansonis. S. Uberti. S. Hugonis. S. Addonis. S. Guadsonis. »
  2 Hujus chartæ tempus conjicitur ex charta Gemeticensi monasterio ab eodem Walterio, Velcassini comite, data, an 1006, de eodem vectigali a navigiis per Sequanam commeantibus exigendo. Vide l’Art de vérifier les dates, t. II, 682.
  1 Walterius II, Albus cognomine, Walterii I filius.
This roughly translates as:
        CHAPTER XLIII.
      On the custom given by count Walter2.
circa 1006.
  « In the name of the holy and indivisible Trinity. We judge it wholesome and useful and profitable for our souls to grant from those things which have been bestowed upon us by God in this present world, serving God, for the salvation of souls. For whatever we see in this world, we prove to be momentary and transitory and altogether unstable. I, count Walter1, by the grace of God, for the progress and safety of my soul and that of my wife Adelaide and my children, hereby grant whatever temporal custom seems to pertain to us concerning the ships of Saint Peter Jociac, passing through the Seine near our castle, which is commonly called Medanta, through the supplication of abbot Maynard and the other brothers, in the same place; for the reason that neither I, nor my children, nor any of our ministers, should receive anything in succeeding times. But if anyone should attempt to rise up against this gift of our bounty, let him be bound by the bond of curse and anathema, and subject to perpetual damnation; and, because he would not have a part with the benefactors, let him perish for ever with the blasphemers and persecutors of the Lord, and with Judas the traitor, Dathan also and Abiron, whom the earth swallowed up alive. And that this precept of our authority may remain unshaken, we have confirmed it with our own hand by subscription, and have delivered it to be strengthened by the hands of our sons and faithful. Signed Walter the count. Signed Rodulf, his son. Signed Drogon, his son. Signed Walter the soldier. Signed Rorigon. Signed Hugh. Signed Sanson. Signed Uberto. Signed Hugh. Signed Addon. Signed Guadson. »
  2 The date of this charter is conjectured from a charter to the monastery of Gemeits by the same Walter, count of Vexin, dated 1006, concerning the same tax levied on ships passing through the Seine. See l'Art de vérifier les dates, t. II, 682.
  1 Walter II, surnamed White, son of Walter I.

The hagiography of Simon, written in the early 12th century, contains information about his ancestors, one of whom was Gauthier (written here as Walterius).
De S. Simone Comite et Monachio in Acta Sanctorum Septembris vol 8 p718 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Rodulfo, S. Simonis genitori, Vilcassino, Crespeiensi et Barrensi ad Albam comiti, pater fuit Rodulfus senior, avus Walterius eo nomine secundus, proavus Walterius I, abavus Gualerannus; abavia Heldegardis, quæ per matrem Adelam, avum Herbertum Viromandiæ, comitem, proavum alium Herbertum, abavum Bernardum Italiæ regem, atavum Pippinum Gibbosum italiæ quoque regem et Karoli Magni filium, tritavum habuit ipsum Karolum magnum.
This roughly translates as:
To Rodolfo, the parent of St. Simon, count of Vilcassino, Crespiensi and Barrensi ad Alba, the father was Rodolfo the elder, grandfather Walter the second of that name, great-grandfather Walter I, great-grandfather Gualerannus; great-grandmother Heldegard, who through her mother Adela, grandfather Herbert of Vermandois, count, great-grandfather another Herbert, great-great-grandfather Bernard, king of Italy, great-great-great-grandfather Pepin the Short, also king of Italy and son of Charlemagne, had great-great-great-great-grandfather Charlemagne himself.

The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines (written between 1232 and 1251) names Gauthier (Gauterus Albus de Albemarla" as the common ancestor of two people whose marriage was being proposed,
Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS 23 p793 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Cum Mellentinus comes Robertus ducere voluisset filiam Hugonis Crispeiensis comitis, natam de sorore huius Symonis, Yvo in epistolis suis contra proponit, dicens etc.: Gauterus Albus de Albemarla genuit matrem Waleranni comitis, qui genuit matrem Roberti comitis Mellentini. Idem Gauterus Albus genuit Rodulfum, patrem Rodulfi, qui genuit Veromandensem comitissam, scilicet Adalam, ex qua nata est Alais, uxor comitis Hugonis, cuius filiam ducere vult comes Robertus Mellentinus.
This roughly translates as:
When count Robert of Mellentin wished to marry the daughter of count Hugh of Crispi, born of the sister of this Simon, Yves in his letters proposes against it, saying etc.: Gauther Albus de Albemarle begot the mother of count Waleran, who begot the mother of count Robert of Mellentin. The same Gauther the White begat Rudolph, the father of Rudolph, who begat a countess of Vermand, namely Adalam, from whom was born Alais, the wife of count Hugh, whose daughter count Robert Mellentine wishes to marry.

Histoire de la maison de Chastillon sur Marne pp656-657 (André Du Chesne, 1621)
GAVTIER II. du nom ſurnommé le BLANC, fut Comte de Vexin, & d’Amiens, & s’allia par mariage auec ADELAIS, que ie conieƈture auoireſté fille de HERBERT Comte de Senlis, iſſu d’vn puiſné des Comtes de Vermandois. Car vn ancien Autheur eſcrit que ce GAVTIER fiſt baſtir le chaſteau de CRESPY en Valois du temps du Roy Robert. Et depuis, Roy Robert. Et depuis, ceux qu’on auoit appellez Comtes de Senlis ſe qualifierent Comtes de Creſpy, ou de Valois. De Gautier & d’Adelais, qui eſt Alix, vinrent trois fils & vne fille; ſçauoir eſt DREVX Comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, mentionné cy-apres, RAOVL Comte de Creſpy, duquel ſera auſſi parlé apres ſon frere; FOVQVES Eueſque d’Amiens; & N........mere de GVALERAN Comte de Meullent.
This roughly translates as:
Walter II, surnamed "the White," was Count of Vexin and Amiens; he married Adelais, whom I surmise to have been the daughter of Herbert, Count of Senlis (himself descended from a younger son of the Counts of Vermandois), for an ancient author records that this Walter built the castle of Crépy-en-Valois during the reign of King Robert. Subsequently, those who had been known as Counts of Senlis styled themselves Counts of Crépy or of Valois. From the union of Walter and Adelais (also known as Alix) came three sons and a daughter: namely, Dreux, Count of Vexin and Amiens (mentioned hereafter); Raoul, Count of Crépy (who will also be discussed after his brother); Foulques, Bishop of Amiens; and N........, mother of Waleran, Count of Meulan.

Gautier commissioned the construction of the Château de Crépy-en-Valois.
La France dans sa splendeur vol 2 pp28-29 (Pierre Louvet, 1674)
Gautier I. du nom, Comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, qui vinoit és années 965. & 987. lequel épouſa Eve, fille & heritiere de Landry Comte de Dreux, & en eut Gautier II. qui épouſa Adelais, fille de Herbert Comte de Senlis. Ce fut ce Gautier qui fit bâtir le Château de Creſpy en Valois, du témps du Roy Robert. Ils eurent trois fils & une fille, Dreux Comte de Vexin & d’Amiens: Raoul Comte de Creſpy; Fouques Evêque d’Amiens, & N. mere de Galeran, Comte de Meulant. 
This roughly translates as:
Gautier I, the first of that name, Count of Vexin and Amiens, who flourished between the years 965 and 987, married Eve, daughter and heiress of Landry, Count of Dreux; by her, he had Gautier II, who married Adelais, daughter of Herbert, Count of Senlis. It was this Gautier who commissioned the construction of the Château de Crépy-en-Valois during the reign of King Robert. They had three sons and one daughter: Dreux, Count of Vexin and Amiens; Raoul, Count of Crépy; Fouques, Bishop of Amiens; and N., mother of Galeran, Count of Meulan.

Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison Royale de France vol 2 p265 (Anselme de Sainte-Marie, 1726)
III. GAUTIER II. du nom, ſurnommé le Blanc, comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, fit bâtir le chateau de Creſpy en Valois, du tems du roi Robert, & fonda en cette ville le monaſtere de S. Arnoul, l’an 1008.
  Femme, ADELAIS, que l'’on conjecture avoir été fille d’Herbert de Vermandois, comte de Senlis: l’on présume qu’elle herita du comté de Creſpy.
    1. DREUX, comte de Vexin & d’Amiens, qui fuit.
    2. RAOUL, comte de Creſpy, qui continua la lignée rapportée ci-après.
    3. FOUQUES d’Amiens, évêque d’Amiens en 997. …
    4. GUY d’Amiens, a été inconnu à du Chêne: mais la chronique de Corbie porte qu’il étoit frere de Fouques, évêque d’Amiens, auquel il ſucceda étant chanoine de cette église. … Il fut habile dans la poëſie Latine: Guillaume de Jumieges, & Orderie Vital, ſont mention d’un poëme de la façon de Guy, évêque d'Amiens, ſur la conquête d’Angleterre, par Guillaume, duc de Normandie. Il mourut en 1076.
    5. ADELE, femme de Robert, comte de Meulan..
This roughly translates as:
III. GAUTIER II. of that name, surnamed the White, count of Vexin and Amiens, built the château de Créspy-en-Valois during the reign of king Robert, and founded the monastery of Saint Arnoul in that city in the year 1008.
  Wife: ADELAIS, who is conjectured to have been the daughter of Herbert of Vermandois, count of Senlis; it is presumed that she inherited the county of Créspy.
    1. DREUX, count of Vexin and Amiens (see below).
    2. RAOUL, count of Créspy, who continued the lineage detailed hereafter.
    3. FOUQUES of Amiens, bishop of Amiens in 997...
    4. GUY of Amiens, was unknown to Du Chesne; however, the chronicle of Corbie records that he was the brother of Fouques, bishop of Amiens, whom he succeeded while serving as a canon of that church. … He was skilled in Latin poetry: William of Jumièges and Orderic Vital make mention of a poem composed by Guy, bishop of Amiens, concerning the conquest of England by William, Duke of Normandy. He died in 1076.
    5. ADELE, wife of Robert, count of Meulan.

Mémoires pour l’histoire du Vermandois vol 1 p624 (Louis-Paul Colliette, 1771)
Raoul III deſcendoit de Raoul II, & celui-ci de Gautier II, comte de Valois & du Vexin, d’Amiens, de Dreux & de Meulan, qui avoit fait bâtir pluſieurs châteaux-forts, & avoit fondé en divers lieux nombre d’égliſes, d’abbayes & de chapitres, tant ſéculiers que réguliers.
This roughly translates as:
Raoul III was descended from Raoul II, and the latter from Gautier II, count of Valois, the Vexin, Amiens, Dreux, and Meulan, who had commissioned the construction of several fortresses and founded, in various locations, a number of churches, abbeys, and collegiate chapters, both secular and regular.

Sources:

Raoul I of Valois

depending on how it is counted, Raoul is sometimes numbered as Raoul II

Father: Gauthier II "le Blanc"

Mother: Adelais

Married: _____ de Breteuil

Children:
Occupation: count of Valois

Notes:
The hagiography of Raoul's grandson, Simon, written in the early 12th century, contains information about Raoul and his family.
De S. Simone Comite et Monachio in Acta Sanctorum Septembris vol 8 pp717-718 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
§ IV. S. Simonis parentes, frater et sorores; patris illustre genus, potentia, majorum series, ditiones et dignitates.
…  33 Allata hactenus dubium non relinquunt, quin Simoni pater fuerit Rodulfus (aliis Rodulphus et Radulfus) comes Crispeiensis; mater Adela, frater Walterus seu Walterius et sorores saltem duæ, de quarum nominibu,s conjugiis ac progenie Chiffletium, quantum hic sufficiet, disputantem postea audiemus. Ordo exigit, ut quæ de parentum stirpe tradidit præmittamus. Caput secundum Observationum, ita orditur: Rodulfo, S. Simonis genitori, Vilcassino, Crespeiensi et Barrensi ad Albam comiti, pater fuit Rodulfus senior, avus Walterius eo nomine secundus, proavus Walterius I, abavus Gualerannus; abavia Heldegardis, quæ per matrem Adelam, avum Herbertum Viromandiæ, comitem, proavum alium Herbertum, abavum Bernardum Italiæ regem, atavum Pippinum Gibbosum italiæ quoque regem et Karoli Magni filium, tritavum habuit ipsum Karolum magnum.
This roughly translates as:
§ IV. Saint Simon's parents, brother and sisters; his father's illustrious family, power, line of ancestors, domains and dignities.
…  33 The above-mentioned leave no doubt that Simon's father was Rodolfo (alias Rodolpho and Ralph) count of Crispi; his mother Adela, his brother Walter and at least two sisters, about whose names, marriages and offspring we will hear Chiffletius discuss later, as far as this will suffice. Order requires that we first state what he has handed down about the lineage of his parents. The second chapter of the Observations begins thus: To Rodolfo, the parent of St. Simon, count of Vilcassino, Crespiensi and Barrensi ad Alba, the father was Rodolfo the elder, grandfather Walter the second of that name, great-grandfather Walter I, great-grandfather Gualerannus; great-grandmother Heldegard, who through her mother Adela, grandfather Herbert of Vermandois, count, great-grandfather another Herbert, great-great-grandfather Bernard, king of Italy, great-great-great-grandfather Pepin the Short, also king of Italy and son of Charlemagne, had great-great-great-great-grandfather Charlemagne himself.

The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines (written between 1232 and 1251) names Raoul's father.
Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS 23 p793 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Cum Mellentinus comes Robertus ducere voluisset filiam Hugonis Crispeiensis comitis, natam de sorore huius Symonis, Yvo in epistolis suis contra proponit, dicens etc.: Gauterus Albus de Albemarla genuit matrem Waleranni comitis, qui genuit matrem Roberti comitis Mellentini. Idem Gauterus Albus genuit Rodulfum, patrem Rodulfi, qui genuit Veromandensem comitissam, scilicet Adalam, ex qua nata est Alais, uxor comitis Hugonis, cuius filiam ducere vult comes Robertus Mellentinus.
This roughly translates as:
When count Robert of Mellentin wished to marry the daughter of count Hugh of Crispi, born of the sister of this Simon, Yves in his letters proposes against it, saying etc.: Gauther Albus de Albemarle begot the mother of count Waleran, who begot the mother of count Robert of Mellentin. The same Gauther the White begat Rudolph, the father of Rudolph, who begat a countess of Vermand, namely Adalam, from whom was born Alais, the wife of count Hugh, whose daughter count Robert Mellentine wishes to marry.

Du Chesne here states that Raoul and the daughter of Hilduin had, as a daughter, Alix who became countess of Bar sur Aube, but it is now believed that Alix was actually their daughter-in-law, the wife of their son, Raoul.
Histoire de la maison de Chastillon sur Marne p657 (André Du Chesne, 1621)
  RAOVL frere de Dreux Comte de Vvexin eut pour portion hereditaire la Cõté de Creſpy, autrement dite de Valois, & eſpouſa la fille de GELDVIN, ou HILDVIN Comte de Bretueil & de Clairmont en Beauuoiſin: qui luy apporta en dot la terre de NANTVEIL ſurnommée de là Nantueil le Hildouin, ou Haudouin, en memoire du Comte Hilduin ſon pere. Le meſme RAOVL fut auſſi Comte de Bar ſur Aube en Champagne, & procrea deux fils & vne fille, aſſauoir RAOVL Comte de Creſpy, qui ſuit: THIBAVT de CRESPY Seigneur de Nantueil, dont la deſcente ſera repreſentée cy-apres: & ALIX de CRESPY femme de Thibaut I. du nom Comte de Champagne, lequel à cauſe d’elle obtint depuis la Comté de Bar ſur Aube.
This roughly translates as:
  Raoul, brother of Dreux, Count of Vexin, received the County of Crépy, also known as the County of Valois, as his hereditary share; he married the daughter of Gelduin (or Hilduin), Count of Breteuil and Clermont-en-Beauvaisis. She brought him the lands of Nantueil as her dowry, a place subsequently named Nantueil-le-Hildouin (or Haudouin) in memory of her father, Count Hilduin. This same Raoul was also Count of Bar-sur-Aube in Champagne and fathered two sons and a daughter: namely Raoul, Count of Crépy (who follows); Thibaut de Crépy, Lord of Nantueil (whose lineage is set out hereafter); and Alix de Crépy, wife of Thibaut I, Count of Champagne, who subsequently acquired the County of Bar-sur-Aube through her.

La France dans sa splendeur vol 2 p30 (Pierre Louvet, 1674)
  Raoul frere de Dreux, Comte de Vexin, eut pour ſa portion hereditaire, la Comté de Creſpy, autrement dite de Valois. Il épouſa la fille de Hilduin, Comte de Breteüil, & de Clemont en Beauvoiſis; & fut auſſi Comte de Bar ſur Aube en Champagne. Il eut deux fils Raoul II. Comte de Creſpy, & Thibaud, Seigneur de Nanteüil. 
This roughly translates as:
  Raoul, brother of Dreux, Count of Vexin, received as his hereditary portion the County of Crépy, otherwise known as Valois. He married the daughter of Hilduin, Count of Breteuil and Clermont-en-Beauvaisis, and was also Count of Bar-sur-Aube in Champagne. He had two sons: Raoul II, Count of Crépy, and Thibaud, Lord of Nanteuil.

Mémoires pour l’histoire du Vermandois vol 1 p624 (Louis-Paul Colliette, 1771)
Raoul III deſcendoit de Raoul II, & celui-ci de Gautier II, comte de Valois & du Vexin, d’Amiens, de Dreux & de Meulan, qui avoit fait bâtir pluſieurs châteaux-forts, & avoit fondé en divers lieux nombre d’égliſes, d’abbayes & de chapitres, tant ſéculiers que réguliers.
This roughly translates as:
Raoul III was descended from Raoul II, and the latter from Gautier II, count of Valois, the Vexin, Amiens, Dreux, and Meulan, who had commissioned the construction of several fortresses and founded, in various locations, a number of churches, abbeys, and collegiate chapters, both secular and regular.

Sources:

Raoul II of Valois

depending on how it is counted, Raoul is sometimes numbered as Raoul III

Father: Raoul I of Valois

Mother: _____ de Breteuil

Married (1st): Aelis de Bar-sur-Aube, who died in 1053

for Aelis ancestry see De S. Simone Comite et Monachio in Acta Sanctorum Septembris vol 8 pp720-722 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)

Children:
Married (2nd): Eleanor (or Haquenez?), whom he repudiated in 1060

Anne de Russie, reine de France pp53-62 (Le Vicomte de Caiz de Saint Aymour, 1896)
Raoul avait eu déjà deux femmes: Adèle ou Alix, fille de Nautcher, comte de Bar-sur-Aube, qui lui avait laissé en mourant, en 1053, avec deux fils et deux filles, cette seigneurie et celle de Vitry, et Aliénor (1) qui vivait encore, mais qu’il soupçonnait d’adultère et qu’il songeait à répudier.
  Il mit son projet à exécution dès qu’il eut la certitude que la reine partageait l’amour qu’il avait conçu pour elle: et pour que rien ne manquât à ce petit roman d’histoire royale, un jour qu’Anne de Russie se promenait dans la forêt de Senlis, sous les ombrages de laquelle ils se rencontraient assez souvent, il l’enleva comme une simple bergère et l’emmena à Crépy-en-Valois, sa capitale, où quelque prêtre complaisant ou terrorisé les maria.
  Ceci se passa très probablement dans la première moitié de l’année 1063, car la dernière charte dans laquelle Anne est traitée de « reine » est datée de cette année, la deuxième du règne de son fils.
  On peut penser au scandale que fit cette escapade princière, quel chagrin en eurent le jeune roi Philippe, et ses frères et quelle indignation en conçut le Régent. Tout ce réunissait pour condamner cette union: la mort très récente de Henri Ier; la jeunesse des petits princes qui avaient encore besoin de leur mère; enfin la situation respective d’Anne et de Raoul aussi bien que la manière dont ils s’y étaient pris pour arriver à la satisfaction de leur passion réciproque. Non seulement le comte de Valois était déjà marié, mais la proche parenté de ce seigneur avec Henri, premier époux d’Anne de Russie, aurait suffi, d’après les mœurs du temps, pour entacher de nullité un mariage contracté entre eux. Mais rien ne prévalut contre la fougue emportée de l’amant et contre la faiblesse déraisonnable de l’amante.
  Quoi qu il en soit, tout se serait peut-être arrangé, tant était grande la puissance du comte de Valois et la crainte qu’il inspirait, sans la protestation hardie de l’épouse qu’il avait abandonnée.
  Celle-ci, en effet, ne se résigna pas à son sort. Outrée de fureur et ne respirant que la vengeance, elle partit pour Rome dès qu’elle sut l’usage que son volage époux avait fait de sa liberté reconquise par la répudiation violente dont elle avait été la victime, et elle alla porter directement ses plaintes au Pape Alexandre II. Celui-ci l’ayant accueillie avec bienveillance, elle revint de Rome avec une lettre du Saint-Père pour Gervais, archevêque de Reims, ordonnant à ce prélat de faire une enquête. Et l’archevêque ayant peu après confirmé les faits allégués par l’épouse répudiée, Alexandre II enjoignit à Raoul de renvoyer la reine et de reprendre Aliénor. Puis sur son refus, il l’excommunia et déclara nul son mariage.
  Bravant les censures ecclésiastiques, le comte de Valois continua à vivre avec sa troisième femme. On s’habitua peu à peu à cette union irrégulière.
  (1) Gall. Christ. XII, 242. CARLIER, dans son Histoire du Valois (Paris, 1704) in-4o. Tome I, p. 289, l’appelle Haquenez; mais on sait combien il faut se méfier de cet historien fantaisiste. 
This roughly translates as:
Raoul had already had two wives: Adèle or Alix, daughter of Nautcher, count of Bar-sur-Aube, who had left him, upon her death in 1053, along with two sons and two daughters, this lordship and that of Vitry; and Eleanor (1), who was still alive, but whom he suspected of adultery and whom he was considering divorcing.
  He put his plan into action as soon as he was certain that the queen shared the love he had conceived for her. And so that nothing would be lacking in this little tale of royal history, one day, while Anne of Russia was strolling in the forest of Senlis, in whose shade they often met, he abducted her like a simple shepherdess and took her to Crépy-en-Valois, his capital, where some compliant or terrified priest married them.
  This most likely took place in the first half of 1063, for the last charter in which Anne is addressed as "queen" is dated that year, the second of her son's reign.
  One can imagine the scandal caused by this princely escapade, the grief felt by the young king Philip and his brothers, and the indignation of the Regent. Everything conspired to condemn this union: the very recent death of Henry I; the young princes, still dependent on their mother, were young; and Anne and Raoul's respective situations, as well as the manner in which they had sought to satisfy their mutual passion, were all factors. Not only was the count of Valois already married, but his close kinship with Henry, Anne of Russia's first husband, would have been sufficient, according to the customs of the time, to invalidate any marriage between them. But nothing prevailed against the lover's impetuous passion and the beloved's unreasonable weakness.
  In any case, everything might have been resolved, so great was the count of Valois's power and the fear he inspired, had it not been for the bold protest of the wife he had abandoned.
  She, indeed, refused to resign herself to her fate. Overcome with fury and consumed by a thirst for revenge, she left for Rome as soon as she learned of how her fickle husband had used his newfound freedom, regained through the violent repudiation of which she had been the victim. She went directly to Pope Alexander II to lodge her complaints. He received her favorably, and she returned from Rome with a letter from the Holy Father to Gervais, archbishop of Reims, ordering him to conduct an investigation. The archbishop soon confirmed the facts alleged by the repudiated wife, and Alexander II ordered Raoul to dismiss the queen and take Eleanor back. Upon his refusal, he excommunicated him and declared their marriage null and void.
  Defying ecclesiastical censures, the count of Valois continued to live with his third wife. People gradually became accustomed to this irregular union.
  (1) Gall. Christ. XII, 242. Carlier, in his Histoire du Valois (Paris, 1704, 4to, Vol. I, p. 289), calls her Haquenez; but it is well known how wary one must be of this fanciful historian.

Children:
Married (3rd): Anne of Kiev in 1062

Anne of Kiev, then the widow of king Henry and regent of France, was Rodulfus's third wife, and the marriage led to his excommunication both on grounds of bigamy due to his repudiation of his second wife not being fully recognised, and because Raoul and Henry I were distantly related.

Hugonis Floriacensis Modernorum Regum Francorum Actus in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS 9 p389 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
   11. Philippus igitur regnum assecutus est Francorum anno incarnationis divinae 1059, regnavitque annis ferme 40. Cuius mater Anna, Henrici relicta, nupsit Rodulfo comiti, viro nobili et generoso.
This roughly translates as:
  11. Philip therefore attained the kingdom of the Franks in the year of the divine incarnation 1059, and he reigned for nearly 40 years. His mother Anna, the relict of Henry, married count Ralph, a man noble and generous.

Occupation: count of Crépy and Valois

Notes:
The hagiography of Raoul's son, Simon, contains information about Raoul and his family. It then describes how Raoul married Aeliz who had three husbands before him, the second and third ones after he was engaged to her.
De S. Simone Comite et Monachio in Acta Sanctorum Septembris vol 8 pp717-718 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
§ IV. S. Simonis parentes, frater et sorores; patris illustre genus, potentia, majorum series, ditiones et dignitates.
De parentibus Simonis ista notavit biographus: Pater ejus Rodulfus, divitiis et viribus potentissimus, mater Adela vocabatur. Guibertus abbas de Novigento, cujus verba superius recensui, solum patrem memorat Radulphum comitem, addens similiter nonnulla, quibus summam hujus potentiam et illustre genus commendat, nominatim Rodulfi conjugium cum relicta Henrici regis uxore, Philippi I regis matre. Albericus Trium Fontium monachus in Chronico ad annum 1061 utrumque parentem nominat et sororem unam: Reliquerat autem comes Rodulphus ex uxore sua, quæ dicta est Adela, filium bonæ indolis, nomine Simonem, et filiam nomine Alaidam. Idem ad annum 1066 patrem vocat comitem Rodulphum de Crespeio, vitricum regis Philippi. Guillelmus Pictaviensis, auctor coævus in Gestis Guillelmi ducis Normannorum et regis Anglorum agens de comitiis Fiscannensibus, similiter regis vitricum dixit, ejusque inter proceres Francos excellentiam non obscure insinuat: Regis Francorum vitricus intererat huic curiæ Rodulphus præpotens comes, multaque nobilitas Franciæ. Auctorem hunc hic pene ad verbum descripsit Ordericus Vitalis in Historia ecclesiastica lib. 4, comitia ista referens ad annum 1067. Mitto alios, qui Rodulfum Philippi regis consanguineum scripserunt, quoniam de iis infra recurret sermo.
  32 Plenius Simonis parentes atque horum prolem edocemur ex Chartis, quas Chiffletius Observationibus suis, ut dictorum suorum argumenta et testimonia, subjunxit. Eas inter ex autographo S. Remigii Remensis producit Scriptum Rodulfi comitis de rebus, quas dedit sancto Remigio pro anima Walteri filii sui, in quo sic loquitur: Notum sit universis Catholicæ matris Ecclesiæ filiis tam præsentis temporis quam futuri, quod ego Rodulfus comes de Crispeio filium habui Walterum nomine, quem maximo semper amore dilexi etc. Dein relata dicti filii cæde, et sepultura in S. Remigii abbatia, bona ac privilegia recenset, quæ eidem abbatiæ attribuit pro ipsius animæ salute additque: Hoc autem totum, sicut supra dictum est, ita statuo et confirmo et laudare facio Symonem filium meum, duos quoque gneros meos, quos de filiabus meis habeo; id est Heribertum comitem, et juvenem nobilissimum Bartholomeum. Alteram chartam profert Chiffletius ex tabulario Molismensi, in qua Simon instituit anniversarium diem parentum suorum, Rodulfi videlicet comitis et Walterii fratris sui et matris suæ Adelæ, nec non et ipsius domni postquam obitus ejus evenerit. Uberiori usui nobis erunt laudatæ chartæ, dum ad tempus, quo scriptæ sunt, pervenerimus.
  33 Allata hactenus dubium non relinquunt, quin Simoni pater fuerit Rodulfus (aliis Rodulphus et Radulfus) comes Crispeiensis; mater Adela, frater Walterus seu Walterius et sorores saltem duæ, de quarum nominibu,s conjugiis ac progenie Chiffletium, quantum hic sufficiet, disputantem postea audiemus. Ordo exigit, ut quæ de parentum stirpe tradidit præmittamus. Caput secundum Observationum, ita orditur: Rodulfo, S. Simonis genitori, Vilcassino, Crespeiensi et Barrensi ad Albam comiti, pater fuit Rodulfus senior, avus Walterius eo nomine secundus, proavus Walterius I, abavus Gualerannus; abavia Heldegardis, quæ per matrem Adelam, avum Herbertum Viromandiæ, comitem, proavum alium Herbertum, abavum Bernardum Italiæ regem, atavum Pippinum Gibbosum italiæ quoque regem et Karoli Magni filium, tritavum habuit ipsum Karolum magnum. Verum quo ordine quibusque causis tres illi comitatus Rodulfo obvenerint, accurate persecutus est nominatissimus genealogus dominus du Bouchet in Dissertatione hisiorica de comitibus Vilcassinis, quam Gallice a se conscriptam, et ad me transmissam Probationibus illigavi. Ex ea intelliges, fuisse Vilcassinos comites regalis monasterii. Dionysiani advocatos et Oriflammæ vexilliferos: atque in eo munere, sicut et in comitatus Vilcassini possessione, ipsos reges Francorum habuisse successores.
This roughly translates as:
§ IV. Saint Simon's parents, brother and sisters; his father's illustrious family, power, line of ancestors, domains and dignities.
The biographer noted the following about Simon's parents: His father Rodolfus, most powerful in wealth and strength, his mother was called Adela. Guibert, abbot of Novigen, whose words I have reviewed above, mentions only his father, count Rodolfus, adding some things in the same way, to which he commends the great power and illustrious family, namely Rodolfus' marriage with the deceased wife of King Henry, the mother of king Philip I. Alberic the monk of Trifontium in his Chronicle for the year 1061 names both parents and one sister: But count Rodolfus had left by his wife, who was called Adela, a son of good character, named Simon, and a daughter named Alaida. The same for the year 1066 calls his father count Rodolfus of Crespeio, stepfather of king Philip. William of Pictou, a contemporary author in the Acts of William, duke of Normandy and king of England, dealing with the elections of Fiskanne, similarly called the king's stepfather, and does not obscurely suggest his excellence among the French nobles: The stepfather of the French king was present at this court, the powerful count Rudolf, and many nobles of France. Ordericus Vitalis described this author almost verbatim in his Ecclesiastical History, Book 4, referring those elections to the year 1067. I send others who wrote that Rudolf was a blood relative of king Philip, since we will discuss them below.
  32 We learn more about Simon's parents and their offspring from the Charters, which Chiffletius has added to his Observations as arguments and testimonies for his words. Among them, from the autograph of St. Remigius of Reims, he produces the Writing of count Rudolf concerning the things which he gave to St. Remigius for the soul of his son Walter, in which he speaks thus: Let it be known to all the sons of the Catholic Mother Church, both of the present time and of the future, that I, count Rudolf of Crispi, had a son named Walter, whom I have always loved with the greatest love, etc. Then he recounts the murder of the said son and his burial in the abbey of St. Remigius, and lists the goods and privileges which he attributes to the same abbey for the salvation of his soul, and adds: All this, as has been said above, I establish and confirm and cause my son Simon to praise, as well as my two sons-in-law, whom I have by my daughters; that is, count Herbert, and the most noble young man Bartholomew. Chiffletius brings forth another charter from the Molise archives, in which Simon establishes the anniversary of his parents, namely count Rodolfo and his brother Walter and his mother Adela, and also of the lord himself after his death. The praised charters will be of greater use to us, until we reach the time when they were written.
  33 The above-mentioned leave no doubt that Simon's father was Rodolfo (alias Rodolpho and Ralph) count of Crispi; his mother Adela, his brother Walter and at least two sisters, about whose names, marriages and offspring we will hear Chiffletius discuss later, as far as this will suffice. Order requires that we first state what he has handed down about the lineage of his parents. The second chapter of the Observations begins thus: To Rodolfo, the parent of St. Simon, count of Vilcassino, Crespiensi and Barrensi ad Alba, the father was Rodolfo the elder, grandfather Walter the second of that name, great-grandfather Walter I, great-grandfather Gualerannus; great-grandmother Heldegard, who through her mother Adela, grandfather Herbert of Vermandois, count, great-grandfather another Herbert, great-great-grandfather Bernard, king of Italy, great-great-great-grandfather Pepin the Short, also king of Italy and son of Charlemagne, had great-great-great-great-grandfather Charlemagne himself. But in what order and for what reasons those three counties came to Rodolfo, the most renowned genealogist Lord du Bouchet has accurately traced in his historical Dissertation on the counts of Vilcassino, which he wrote in French and transmitted to me, and I have bound with Proofs. From it you will understand that the Vilcassinos were counts of the royal monastery. Dionysianus advocates and standard-bearers of the Oriflamme: and in that office, as also in the possession of the county of Vilcassin, the kings of the Franks themselves had successors.
pp720-721 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
§ V. Præclara stirps matris S. Simonis; nuptiæ ipsius cum Rodulfo Crispeiensi comite; repudii a nonnullis asserti evidens refutatio.
Expositis xpositis titulis ac dignitatibus generis paterni, ad qualemcumque maternæ stirpis notitiam genealogicam cum Chiffletio procedimus. Verbis num. 33 recitatis mox addit Chiffletius: Rodulpho (Simonis genitori) tres fuere ex ordine uxores. Prima Adela, Nocheri Barrensis ad Albam comitis filia, Nocheri comitis Suessionum neptis, Achardi proneptis, quem genere Normannum et Firmitatis ad Albam conditorem facit Charta vetus ἀνεπίγραφα, quam ex contentis Dominorum Firmitatis, sive Cellæ Firmitatis Advocatorum notitiam inscribere licet. Ea Charta quatuor Adelæ seu sponsos, seu viros commemorat; Rainaldum de Sinemuro; Rainardum comitem de Jooniaco; Rotgerium de Wangionis ripa, et Rodulfum, quem Calvimontis Vallis Cassini comitem appellat. Huic tantum postremo Adela liberos genuit, Walterium et Simonem filios, totidemque filias, Adalam Veromandensem comitissam, et Alaydem sive Adelaidem, Bartholomæo Brecarum domino matrimonio junctam, de quibus cap, 4 et 5 pluribus.
  44 Nihil præter ista de matris familia, ejusdemve quatuor seu sponsis seu maritis, tradit Chiffletius; haud dubie, quia sicut pauca, quæ dederat de paterna Simonis stirpe plenius intellecta voluit ex Gallica Boucheti Dissertatione, ita quæ hic de materna perstrinxit, distincte satis cognoscenda putavit tum ex eodem Boucheto, tum ex ea, quam laudat, Charta, similiter ad probationes suas destinata. Et sane utrobique prolixius de iis agitur; at etiam hic repetitionis evitandæ causa, solam Chartam, quæ latine exarata est, et, ni fallor, Boucheto præluxit transcribam. Titulus is illi præfixus est: Genealogia materna S. Simonis comitis, et adscripta hæc Chiffletii admonitio: Ex Charta de Advocatis Cellæ Firmitatis ad Albam, seu Notitia ejus loci dominorum, quam descripsimus ex veteri codice ms. S Eugendi Jurensis. Tum sequitur ipsa Charta seu Notitia: Conditor Firmitatis vocatus est Achardus, et uxor ejus Achardia: fueruntque Normanni. Ex his Nocherius comes Suessionem egressus traditur: de quo alius Nocherius, Wido quoque clericus frater ejus sunt orti. Hic secundus Nocherius duas filias habuit, Comitissam scilicet (quæ et Adelhida) et Isabel. Sed Isabel Galterius de Clamice uxorem duxit et medietatem totius honoris possedit: habuitque ex ea filium, Rodulfum nomine, qui apud Firmitatem jam juvenis strangulatus fuisse traditur.
  45 Comitissa vero, quæ major natu erat, quatuor viros habuit; Rainaldum de Sinemuro, qui mortuus nullos ex ea liberos tulit. Post hæc Rodulfus, comes Calvimontis Vallis Cassini, dum Romam pergeret, secus castellum Barri, quod tunc in monte situm erat, transitum faciens, dum, cujus esset castrum illud, sciscitaretur, dictum est ei, et hoc et alia quædam regionis ejusdem castella cujusdam puellæ esse, quæ utroque parente jam dudum orbata, virum etiam in adolescentia amisisset. Quod audiens comes, statim ad eam divertit: quæ cum ei placuisset, fide data vel accepta, uxorem eam se ducere in reditu promisit. Quod cum primoribus terræ illius displicuisset; timentes videlicet potentiam et tyrannidem ipsius, consilio inito, Rainardo comiti de Jooniaco tradere eam decreverunt: sicque factum est. Quod cum Rodulphus comes Roma rediens, didicisset, armis ultum iri injuriam parat.
  46 Nam cum valida pugnatorum manu a Francia veniens, Jooniacum castellum cepit et diruit; inventamque ibi puellam, sponsam videlicet suam, secum reduxit. Et cum eam interim in castello Firmitatis custodiendam dimisisset, volens scilicet cognoscere, utrum a Rainardo comite imprægnata fuisset; iterum illi, qui prius, homines videlicet sui, Rotgerio de Wangionis ripa puellam tradiderunt. Quod cum comiti denuo nunciatum fuisset, reversus cum suis, terram illius omnino depopulatus est, incendio cuncta tradens, rapinisque et cædibus universa consumens, donec sua sibi puella redderetur. At tunc demum celebratis nuptiis, eam sibi in matrimonio copulavit: et ex ea duos filios Galterium et Symоnem, et unam filiam, id est, Aaliz genuit, quam Bartolomeus, juvenis de Breias uxorem duxit, et ex ea Hugonem Bardul genuit. 
This roughly translates as:
§ V. The illustrious lineage of the mother of St. Simon; her marriage to Rudolf, Count of Crispien; a clear refutation of the divorce alleged by some.
Having set out the titles and dignities of the paternal line, we proceed with Chiffletius to some genealogical knowledge of the maternal line. After reciting words no. 33, Chiffletius soon adds: Rodolfo (Simon's father) had three wives in order. The first, Adela, daughter of count Nocher of Barrens ad Alba, granddaughter of count Nocher of Suessions, great-granddaughter of Achard, whom an old anonymous Charter makes Norman by lineage and founder of Firmitatis ad Alba, which it is possible to inscribe from the contents of the Lords of Firmitatis, or the Cell of Firmitatis Advocates. That Charter mentions four of Adela's husbands; Rainald of Sinemure; Rainard, count of Jooniac; Rotger of Wangioni's bank, and Rodolfo, whom he calls count of Calvimonte, the Valley of Cassini. To him only Adela finally bore children, sons Walter and Simon, and as many daughters, Adalam, countess of Vermond, and Alayde or Adelaide, married to Bartholomew, lord of Brecar, of whom chapters 4 and 5 contain more.
  44 Chiffletius gives nothing beyond this about his mother's family, or her four spouses or husbands; no doubt, because just as he wished the few things he had given about Simon's paternal lineage to be more fully understood from Bouchet's French Dissertation, so he thought that what he has here summarized about his maternal lineage could be clearly understood both from Bouchet himself and from that Charter which he praises, similarly intended for his proofs. And indeed, in both places they are discussed at length; but here also, for the sake of avoiding repetition, I will transcribe only the Charter, which was written in Latin and, if I am not mistaken, preceded Bouchet. The title is prefixed to it: The maternal genealogy of the count St. Simon, and this admonition of Chiffletius is attached: From the Charter of the Advocates of Firmitatis at Alba, or the Notice of the lords of the place, which we have described from the old codex of the manuscript of St. Eugenius of Jurensis. Then follows the Charter or Notice itself: The founder of Firmitatis was called Achardus, and his wife Achardia: and they were Normans. From these, count Nocher is said to have left Suessonne: from whom another Nocher, and Wido, also a cleric, his brother, were born. This second Nocher had two daughters, namely the Countess (who was Adelhida) and Isabel. But Isabel married Galterius de Clamice and possessed half of the whole honour: and by her he had a son, named Rodulf, who is said to have been strangled at Firmitatis when he was still a young man.
  45 The Countess, who was the eldest, had four husbands; Rainald de Sinemuro, who died leaving no children by her. After this, while on his way to Rome, Rodolphe, count of Calvimonte in the Cassini Valley, was passing by the castle of Barri, which was then situated on a mountain, and while he was inquiring as to whose castle it was, he was told that this and some other castles of the same region belonged to a certain girl who had long since been bereaved of both parents and had also lost her husband in her youth. Hearing this, the count immediately turned to her: when she pleased him, he promised, on promise or acceptance, to take her as his wife on his return. This displeased the chiefs of that land; fearing, in fact, his power and tyranny, they took counsel and decided to hand her over to count Rainard of Ioniacus: and so it was done. When count Rodolphe, returning to Rome, learned that the injury would be avenged by arms.
  46 For, coming from France with a strong band of fighters, he captured and destroyed the castle of Ioniacus; and finding the girl there, he brought her back with him. And when he had left her in the meantime to be kept in the castle of Firmitatis, wanting to know whether she had been impregnated by count Rainard; again those who had been before, namely his men, handed the girl over to Roger of the Wangion bank. When this had been reported to the count again, he returned with his men and completely ravaged his land, burning everything and consuming everything with plunder and murder, until his own girl was returned to him. But then at last, having celebrated the wedding, he took her to himself in marriage: and by her he had two sons, Galter and Simon, and one daughter, that is, Aaliz, whom Bartholomew, the young man of Breias, married, and by her he begot Hugh Bardul.
pp722-723 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
§ VI. Sancti educatio post obitum matris; Rodulfi patris eum secunda conjuge divortium: tertiæ nuptiæ cum regina vidua, affine sua; ex communicatio ejusdem, verisimiliter post aliquod tempus sublata.
… quando Rodulfus pater repudiata, ut supra vidimus, secunda conjuge, Simonis noverca, tertiam duxit, de qua hæc collegit Chiffletius in Observationibus Mss.: Fuit igitur tertia ejus conjux Anna, Jaroslai Russorum regis filia, Henrici I Francorum regis relicta: quam duxisse videtur anno 1061, expleto anno luctus reginæ viduæ. Propter has autem nuptias sacris interdictus est Rodulfus. Sic enim ait Clarius monachus in Chronico Senonensi S. Petri Vivi: “Mortuo autem Hainrico rege apud Vitriacum castrum in Brieria et sepulto in basilica sancti Dionysii, Rodulfus comes, consanguineus, ejusdem regis duxit uxorem in conjugio contra jus et fas; unde fuit excommunicatus. Balduinus vero comes Flandrensis regem parvulum Philippum aluit, et Franciam gubernavit.” Duxerat videlicet Annam Rodulfus in gradu affinitatis lege ecclesiastica tunc prohibito. Nam, ut notum est, ante concilium Lateranense anno 1215 sub Innocentio III, vetita erant matrimonia intra septem gradus sive consanguinitatis, sive affinitatis: erat autem Rodulfus Henrici regis consanguineus in quinto gradu; adeoque Annæ reginæ in eodem gradu affinis
This roughly translates as:
§ VI The education of the saint after the death of his mother; the divorce of his father Rodolfo from his second wife; his third marriage to the widowed queen, his relative; from the same communication, probably removed after some time.
… when [Simon's] father Rodolfo, having been divorced, as we have seen above, from his second wife, Simon's stepmother, he married a third, Simon's stepmother, of whom Chiffletius collected the following in his Observations on Mss.: His third wife was therefore Anna, daughter of Yaroslav, king of the Russians, left by Henry I, king of the Franks: whom he seems to have married in 1061, after the year of mourning for the widowed queen had expired. Because of this marriage, Rodolphe was forbidden to perform sacred rites. For thus says the monk Clarius in the Chronicle of Senon of St. Peter Vivi: “When King Henry died at the castle of Vitria in Brier and was buried in the basilica of St. Denis, Count Rodolphe, a blood relative of the same king, married the wife of the same king in a marriage contrary to law and custom; wherefore he was excommunicated. But Baldwin, Count of Flanders, raised the young king Philip and governed France.” Rodolphe had married Anne in a degree of affinity then forbidden by ecclesiastical law. For, as is known, before the Lateran Council in 1215 under Innocent III, marriages within seven degrees of consanguinity or affinity were forbidden: but Rodolphe was a blood relative of King Henry in the fifth degree; and therefore related to Queen Anne in the same degree

The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names Raoul's father and grandfather
Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium in Monumenta Germaniæ Historica SS 23 p793 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
   Hic dicendum est, quod Hugo vir nobilis cognomento Bardol fuit domnus Brecarum, id est de Brois, et erat ex una parte heres legitimus comitis Veromandie Rodolfi. Quo Rodulfo mortuo dictus Hugo Bardol Vitriacum invasit et Barrum super Albam et Firmi tatem: et hoc de assensu regis Philippi, qui cetera que fuerunt comitis Rodulfi invadebat. Reliquerat autem comes Rodulfus ex uxore sua, que dicta est Adala, filium bone indolis nomine Symonem et filiam nomine Alaidem. Hic est Symon vir sanctus, qui primo consul et regis Francorum primipilus, postea monachus probatissimus effectus. Cum Mellentinus comes Robertus ducere voluisset filiam Hugonis Crispeiensis comitis, natam de sorore huius Symonis, Yvo in epistolis suis contra proponit, dicens etc.: Gauterus Albus de Albemarla genuit matrem Waleranni comitis, qui genuit matrem Roberti comitis Mellentini. Idem Gauterus Albus genuit Rodulfum, patrem Rodulfi, qui genuit Veromandensem comitissam, scilicet Adalam, ex qua nata est Alais, uxor comitis Hugonis, cuius filiam ducere vult comes Robertus Mellentinus. Sed sciendum, quod comitissa Alaydis, soror sancti Symonis, comiti Campanie Theobaldo peperit duos filios, Philippum episcopum Cathalaunensem et Hugonem Campanie comitem, et post mortem comitis Theobaldi eadem Alaydis Hugoni, fratri regis Philippi, peperit liberos utriusque sexus, et per illam Hugo Magnus Veromandie comitatum optinuit.
This roughly translates as:
  Here it must be said that Hugh, a nobleman by the surname of Bardol, was lord of Brecar, that is, of Brois, and was on one side the legitimate heir of count Rudolf of Vermandy. When Rudolf died, the said Hugh Bardol invaded Vitriacum and Barr on Alba and Firme: and this with the consent of king Philip, who invaded the rest that belonged to count Rudolf. Now count Rudolf had left by his wife, who was called Adala, a good-natured son named Simon and a daughter named Alaide. This is Simon, a holy man, who was first consul and first-in-command of the French kings, and afterwards became a most approved monk. When count Robert of Mellentin wished to marry the daughter of count Hugh of Crispi, born of the sister of this Simon, Yves in his letters proposes against it, saying etc.: Gauther Albus de Albemarle begot the mother of count Waleran, who begot the mother of count Robert of Mellentin. The same Gauther the White begat Rudolph, the father of Rudolph, who begat a countess of Vermand, namely Adalam, from whom was born Alais, the wife of count Hugh, whose daughter count Robert Mellentine wishes to marry. But it should be known that countess Alaydis, sister of Saint Simon, bore two sons to count Theobald of Champagne, Philip, bishop of Cathalau, and Hugh, count of Champagne, and after the death of count Theobald, the same Alaydis bore children of both sexes to Hugh, brother of king Philip, and through her Hugh the Great obtained the county of Vermand.

William the Conqueror, in his supposed deathbed confession related by Ordericus Vitalis, mentions Raoul (Ralph) in his recounting of the invasion of Normandy by king Henry of France in 1057.
The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis vol 2 pp407-408 (trans. Thomas Forester, 1853)
  “On one occasion, King Henry, was so enraged against me, that he invaded my territories with a vast army in two divisions, in order to overwhelm them by a double attack. He led one body of troops himself into the diocese of Evreux, and ravaged the whole country on this side the Seine, while he gave the command of the other division to his brother Eudes, with Reynold de Clermont, and the two counts, Ralph de Montdidier,3 and Guy de Ponthieu, with orders to enter Normandy by the fords of the Epte, and, carrying fire and sword through Brai and the Talois, with the whole district of Rouen, to continue their devastations to the sea-coast. Receiving intelligence of these movements, I lost no time in preparing to meet them. Stationing myself with part of my troops along the bank of the Seine against the king’s tents, I kept him in check, and was ready to fall upon the enemy at whatever point he attempted to ravage my territories. Meanwhile, I detached against Eudes and his division Robert, Count d’Eu, with Roger de Mortemer,1 and other distinguished knights; who, encountering the French near the castle of Mortemer, the line of battle was formed by both armies, and a desperate engagement ensued, in which the carnage was enormous, for the combatants on both sides were full of ardour and resolved not to yield but with their lives. On one side, the French made furious assaults, inspired by the hope of gaining the spoils of the victory; on the other, the Normans struck home, animated by their determination to repel the enemy and defend their lives and possessions. This battle was fought beyond the Seine in the winter season, before Lent, eight years after that of Val-des-Dunes. Guy, count of Ponthieu, was taken prisoner and Eudes, Reynold, and others were put to flight, owing their escape to the speed with which they ran away. Count Ralph [de Valois] would also have been taken, if Roger, my commander-in-chief, had not favoured his escape on account of the fealty he had formerly sworn to him. In acting thus, in the hour of the count’s utmost need, he paid him a noble and legitimate service; receiving him in his castle, where he entertained him three days, and afterwards conducting him in safety to his own territories. Notwithstanding, for this breach of his duty to me, I banished Robert from Normandy, but, being soon afterwards reconciled with him, restored him all his domains, except the castle of Mortemer, in which he had sheltered my enemy; which I think he justly forfeited, and I granted it to his cousin William de Warrene,3 one of my loyal young vassals.
  3 Ralph III., called the Great, comte de Valois and Amiens in 1030, in right of his father, Ralph II., re-united to it Pontoise, Mantes, and great part of the Vexin, after the death of his cousin Walter in 1063. See before, p. 79. He never bore the title of Comte de Montdidier given him by our author, and only possessed that place by depriving his cousin-german, Rothaïs daughter and heiress of Eudes, comte de Montdidier of it. Having married twice, he divorced his second wife to marry the queen, Anne of Russia, widow of Henry I. Faithful to his habits of violence and usurpation, towards the close of his life (about 1071 or 1072) he seized the castle of Péronne, of which exploit he was so proud that he afterwards used no other title but that of Ralph de Péronne. He died at Montdidier, Sept. 8, 1074, under excommunication for his divorce, and was buried in the priory of Notre-Dame in that town.
  Simon de Crépi, his son and successor, led a life as pure and holy as that of Ralph had been violent and criminal. One of his first cares was to restore Montdidier to the right heirs, and to disinter his father’s body, and have it conveyed to his own patrimony at Creépi. This exhumation was made on March 22, 1076. Simon, who was present, was so shocked at the appearance of his father’s corpse, that it was a new motive for his quitting the world and devoting himself to a monastic life, which he shortly afterwards did, although his friends, to withdraw him from it, brought about his marriage with Judith, daughter of Robert Comte d’Auvergne. The new married pair made vows of chastity on the day of their union, and both embraced a religious life. Simon was one of the nearest relatives and most devoted friends of Queen Matilda.
  1 Roger de Mortemer, brother of William de Warrene, son of Walter (or Ralph), who married a niece of the Duchess Gonnor.
  3 Although Roger de Mortemer, Roger’s son, fought bravely at the battle of Hastings, the castle of his ancestors was not restored to him. In the treaty of 1153, between King Stephen and Duke Henry, by which the domains of Earl Warrene were ceded to William, the king’s son, the castles of Bellencombre and Mortemer appear in the first line. A charter of Reginald de Boulogne, in 1204, mentions the castle of Mortemer, quod fuit comitis Garenniæ.

The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis vol 1 p456 (trans. Thomas Forester, 1853)
  On a certain occasion [1066] there was a violent quarrel between Count Hugh, so often named, and Ralph, count of Mantes, father-in-law of Philip, king of France,1 and Hugh, boldly encountering the count of Mantes with inferior forces, was compelled to retreat.
  1 Ralph, count de Cressi and Valois, married, in 1062, Agnes, wife of Henry I., king of France, and died in 1074.

When William returned to Normandy in 1067, following his conquest of England, Raoul was among those who celebrated his return.
The ecclesiastical history of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis vol 2 pp5-6 (trans. Thomas Forester, 1853)
  Bang William then set sail in the month of March, and crossed the sea in safety to his native dominions. He took with him, in honourable attendance, Stigand the archbishop, Edgar Etheling, cousin of King Edward, and the three powerful earls, Edwin, Morcar, and Waltheof,1 with Ethelnoth, governor of Canterbury, and several others of high rank and most graceful person. The king adopted a courteous policy in thus preventing these great lords from plotting a change during his absence, and the people would be less able to rebel when deprived of their chiefs.
… The feast of Easter1 was kept at the abbey of the Holy Trinity at Fécamp, where a great number of bishops, abbots, and nobles assembled. Earl Radulph, father-in-law of Philip king of France2 with many of the French nobility, were also there beholding with curiosity the long-haired natives of English-Britain, and admiring the garments of gold tissue, enriched with bullion, worn by the king and his courtiers. They also were greatly struck with the beauty of the gold and silver plate, and the horns tipped with gold at both extremities.
  1 Waltheof held the earldoms of Northampton and Huntingdon.
  1 Easter fell this year on the 8th of April.
  2 Ralph the Great, count of Valois.

La France dans sa splendeur vol 2 p30 (Pierre Louvet, 1674)
  Raoul II. eut deux fils & deux filles, le premier des fils nommé Gauthier, fut tué auprés de Reims au voyage que le Roy Philippe I. fit en Champagne pour aſſieger Vitry. Le ſecond fut Simon, Comte de Meulant, qui s’alla rendre Religieux au Monaſtere de S. Claude, quittant toutes ſes Seigneuries à ſes ſœurs, l’aînée deſquelles Alix de Creſpy porta en mariage les Comtés de Valois & de Chaumont à Herbert Comte de Vermandois, & leur fille Adelle ou Alix les porta à Hugues de France, qui fit la ſeconde branche de Vermandois 
This roughly translates as:
  Raoul II had two sons and two daughters. The elder of the sons, named Gauthier, was killed near Reims during the expedition King Philip I undertook in Champagne to lay siege to Vitry. The second was Simon, Count of Meulan, who retired to become a monk at the Monastery of Saint-Claude, ceding all his lordships to his sisters; the eldest of these, Alix de Crépy, brought the Counties of Valois and Chaumont as her dowry to Herbert, Count of Vermandois, and their daughter, Adèle (or Alix), brought them to Hugh of France, who established the second branch of Vermandois.

Mémoires pour l’histoire du Vermandois vol 1 pp623-625 (Louis-Paul Colliette, 1771)
Hébert IV … épousa Adéle, que d’autres nomment Hildébrante, fille de Raoul II [aliàs Raoul III] comte de Crépy en Valois, & ſeigneur de pluſieurs autres villes, châteaux & comtés. Comes Criſpeius, Creſpienſis, Creſpeïcus, Vadenſis. … Cette alliance priſe dans une famille extrêmement noble, puiſqu’elle ſortoit de Charlemagne par les femmes, mit le comble à la grandeur de nos Comtes, & fit tomber, dans leur maiſon, des biens immenſes & des dignités conſidérables. Raoul III deſcendoit de Raoul II, & celui-ci de Gautier II, comte de Valois & du Vexin, d’Amiens, de Dreux & de Meulan, qui avoit fait bâtir pluſieurs châteaux-forts, & avoit fondé en divers lieux nombre d’égliſes, d’abbayes & de chapitres, tant ſéculiers que réguliers. Nous donnerons ci-après l’exaƈte généalogie de ces Seigneurs.
  Le beau-pere d’Hébert IV avoit épouſé, en premieres nôces, Adéle de Bar-ſur-Aube, morte en 1053, qu’il abandonna pour prendre Hahaïs, qu’on croit avoir été de la Maiſon de Champagne, & qu’il répudia ſous prétexte d’adultere, pour s’attacher, en troiſiemes nôces, en 1062, à Anne de Ruſſie ou de Moſcovie, la veuve d’Henri Ier, que ce Prince avoit quittée de ſon vivant. Raoul III eut deux garçons, Gautier & Simon, & deux filles Adéle & N..., de ſon premier lit: de ſon ſecond il eut Gui & Yves, qui ne lui ſuccéderent point: de ſon troiſieme, il n’eut point d’enfans.
…  C’est à l’occaſion de l’expulſion de la ſeconde épouſe de Raoul de Crépy III, & de ſes troiſiemes nôces avec Anne de Ruſſie, que le Pape Alexandre II donna à l’Archevêque de Reims, Gervais, la commiſſion d’inſtruire le procès de ce divorce, & d’en envoyer enſuite le verbal en la Cour de Rome, pardevant laquelle l’épouſe répudiée avoit été former elle-même ſa plainte. Mais le Comte, obſtiné dans ſa paſſion, ne tint jamais compte des plus ſalutaires avis qu’on lui donna, ni des plus foudroyantes cenſures dont on l’accabla.
This roughly translates as:
Herbert IV. … married Adela, whom others call Hildebranda, the daughter of Ralph II [alias Ralph III], count of Crépy and Valois, and lord of several other towns, castles, and counties. Count Crispeius, Crespensis, Crespeïcus, Vadensis. … This alliance, contracted with an exceedingly noble family, for it traced its lineage back to Charlemagne through the female line, brought the grandeur of our Counts to its zenith, and brought into their house immense estates and considerable dignities. Raoul III was descended from Raoul II, and the latter from Gautier II, count of Valois, the Vexin, Amiens, Dreux, and Meulan, who had commissioned the construction of several fortresses and founded, in various locations, a number of churches, abbeys, and collegiate chapters, both secular and regular. We shall provide the exact genealogy of these lords hereafter.
  Hébert IV’s father-in-law had married, as his first wife, Adèle de Bar-sur-Aube, who died in 1053, whom he abandoned to take Hahaïs, believed to have belonged to the House of Champagne, and whom he subsequently repudiated on grounds of adultery in order to wed, as his third wife, in 1062, Anne of Russia (or Muscovy), the widow of Henry I, a prince who had himself abandoned her during his lifetime. Raoul III had two sons, Gautier and Simon, and two daughters, Adèle and N..., by his first wife; by his second, he had Guy and Yves, neither of whom succeeded him; and by his third, he had no children.
…  It was on the occasion of the expulsion of Raoul de Crépy III’s second wife, and his subsequent third marriage to Anne of Russia, that Pope Alexander II commissioned Gervais, the Archbishop of Reims, to conduct the proceedings regarding this divorce and to subsequently forward the official record to the Court of Rome, before which the repudiated wife had herself lodged her complaint. Yet the Count, obstinate in his passion, paid no heed whatsoever to the most salutary counsel offered to him, nor to the most thunderous censures heaped upon him.

Anne de Russie, reine de France pp53-62 (Le Vicomte de Caiz de Saint Aymour, 1896)
  Cependant, l’accomplissement de ses de voirs de mère et l’exécution de son pieux dessein, la fondation de l’abbaye de Saint-Vincent, n’absorbait pas tellement la reine qu’elle ne pût prendre quelques distractions purement mondaines. Parmi ces distractions, la promenade et la chasse dans les belles forêts qui entouraient sa résidence, tenaient la première place. Tous les seigneurs du voisinage venaient aussi lui faire leur cour ainsi qu’au jeune roi: et plus d’un, parmi eux, apportait ses hommages, non seulement à la reine, mais aussi à la femme. Il ne faut pas oublier, en effet, qu’Anne de Russie n’avait, à la mort de son époux, que trente-cinq ou trente-six ans, qu’elle était renommée pour sa beauté, et que, chez beaucoup de femmes de son pays, cet âge est celui du plus complet épanouissement de leurs charmes.
  Parmi les seigneurs qui se trouvaient ainsi attirés le plus assidûment à Senlis, était Raoul III, dit le Grand, comte de Crépy et de Valois, du Vexin d’Amiens, de Bar-sur-Aube, de Vitry, de Péronne et de Montdidier. Ce prince, descendant de Charlemagne, par Hildegarde, dame de Crépy, était, nous dit l’historien du Valois, « l’un des plus puissants seigneurs et des plus absolus qui aient existé en France… »; il « ne reconnaissait de puissance au-dessus de la sienne que celle qu’il pouvait faire servir à l’accomplissement de ses desseins », et « il ne craignait ni les armes du roi, ni les censures de l’Eglise… »
  Plus âgé que la reine de quelques années, Raoul avait eu déjà deux femmes: Adèle ou Alix, fille de Nautcher, comte de Bar-sur-Aube, qui lui avait laissé en mourant, en 1053, avec deux fils et deux filles, cette seigneurie et celle de Vitry, et Aliénor (1) qui vivait encore, mais qu’il soupçonnait d’adultère et qu’il songeait à répudier.
  Il mit son projet à exécution dès qu’il eut la certitude que la reine partageait l’amour qu’il avait conçu pour elle: et pour que rien ne manquât à ce petit roman d’histoire royale, un jour qu’Anne de Russie se promenait dans la forêt de Senlis, sous les ombrages de laquelle ils se rencontraient assez souvent, il l’enleva comme une simple bergère et l’emmena à Crépy-en-Valois, sa capitale, où quelque prêtre complaisant ou terrorisé les maria.
  Ceci se passa très probablement dans la première moitié de l’année 1063, car la dernière charte dans laquelle Anne est traitée de « reine » est datée de cette année, la deuxième du règne de son fils.
  On peut penser au scandale que fit cette escapade princière, quel chagrin en eurent le jeune roi Philippe, et ses frères et quelle indignation en conçut le Régent. Tout ce réunissait pour condamner cette union: la mort très récente de Henri Ier; la jeunesse des petits princes qui avaient encore besoin de leur mère; enfin la situation respective d’Anne et de Raoul aussi bien que la manière dont ils s’y étaient pris pour arriver à la satisfaction de leur passion réciproque. Non seulement le comte de Valois était déjà marié, mais la proche parenté de ce seigneur avec Henri, premier époux d’Anne de Russie, aurait suffi, d’après les mœurs du temps, pour entacher de nullité un mariage contracté entre eux. Mais rien ne prévalut contre la fougue emportée de l’amant et contre la faiblesse déraisonnable de l’amante.
  Quoi qu il en soit, tout se serait peut-être arrangé, tant était grande la puissance du comte de Valois et la crainte qu’il inspirait, sans la protestation hardie de l’épouse qu’il avait abandonnée.
  Celle-ci, en effet, ne se résigna pas à son sort. Outrée de fureur et ne respirant que la vengeance, elle partit pour Rome dès qu’elle sut l’usage que son volage époux avait fait de sa liberté reconquise par la répudiation violente dont elle avait été la victime, et elle alla porter directement ses plaintes au Pape Alexandre II. Celui-ci l’ayant accueillie avec bienveillance, elle revint de Rome avec une lettre du Saint-Père pour Gervais, archevêque de Reims, ordonnant à ce prélat de faire une enquête. Et l’archevêque ayant peu après confirmé les faits allégués par l’épouse répudiée, Alexandre II enjoignit à Raoul de renvoyer la reine et de reprendre Aliénor. Puis sur son refus, il l’excommunia et déclara nul son mariage.
  Bravant les censures ecclésiastiques, le comte de Valois continua à vivre avec sa troisième femme. On s’habitua peu à peu à cette union irrégulière. Le roi lui-même, sans doute par crainte de s’aliéner son puissant beau-père, et peut-être aussi mû par un sentiment de tendresse pour sa mère, qui, jusqu’à l’éclosion de cette malheureuse passion n’avait jamais failli à aucun de ses devoirs, fit probablement taire son juste ressentiment. Nous voyons, en effet, dès l’année 1065, Raoul et ses deux fils accompagner Philippe Ier à Corbie et signer avec lui un diplôme en faveur de l’abbaye de Hasnon. Néanmoins, nous ne trouvons plus Anne nommée dans aucune charte donnée par son fils depuis son union avec le comte de Valois, sauf dans celle qu’il octroya à Senlis, en 1069, au monastère de Saint Vincent. Mais cette exception se justifie suffisamment par le fait que la mère du roi était la fondatrice de ce couvent et qu’il était, pour ainsi dire, impossible de ne pas le rappeler dans une charte concernant cette fondation et donnée dans la ville même où s’élevait l’abbaye due à sa piété.
  Cette réserve n’empêchait pas d’ailleurs les bonnes relations de la mère et du fils, et Raoul de Crépy étant mort à Montdidier le 8 septembre 1074, sa veuve reparut immédiatement à la cour de Philippe Ier.
  (1) Gall. Christ. XII, 242. CARLIER, dans son Histoire du Valois (Paris, 1704) in-4o. Tome I, p. 289, l’appelle Haquenez; mais on sait combien il faut se méfier de cet historien fantaisiste. 
This roughly translates as:
  However, fulfilling her maternal duties and carrying out her pious project, the founding of the abbey of Saint Vincent, did not so absorb the queen that she could not indulge in some purely worldly pastimes. Among these, walking and hunting in the beautiful forests surrounding her residence held first place. All the local lords also came to pay their respects to her and the young king; and more than one of them offered homage not only to the queen, but also to the woman. It must not be forgotten, in fact, that Anne of Russia was only thirty-five or thirty-six years old at the death of her husband, that she was renowned for her beauty, and that, for many women of her country, this age is that of the fullest blossoming of their charms.
  Among the lords who were thus most assiduously drawn to Senlis was Raoul III, known as the Great, count of Crépy and Valois, of the Vexin of Amiens, of Bar-sur-Aube, of Vitry, of Péronne and of Montdidier. This prince, a descendant of Charlemagne through Hildegarde, lady of Crépy, was, the historian of Valois tells us, "one of the most powerful and absolute lords who ever existed in France..." He "recognized no power above his own except that which he could use to accomplish his designs," and "he feared neither the king's arms nor the Church's censures..."
  A few years older than the queen, Raoul had already had two wives: Adèle or Alix, daughter of Nautcher, count of Bar-sur-Aube, who had left him, upon her death in 1053, along with two sons and two daughters, this lordship and that of Vitry; and Eleanor (1), who was still alive, but whom he suspected of adultery and whom he was considering divorcing.
  He put his plan into action as soon as he was certain that the queen shared the love he had conceived for her. And so that nothing would be lacking in this little tale of royal history, one day, while Anne of Russia was strolling in the forest of Senlis, in whose shade they often met, he abducted her like a simple shepherdess and took her to Crépy-en-Valois, his capital, where some compliant or terrified priest married them.
  This most likely took place in the first half of 1063, for the last charter in which Anne is addressed as "queen" is dated that year, the second of her son's reign.
  One can imagine the scandal caused by this princely escapade, the grief felt by the young king Philip and his brothers, and the indignation of the Regent. Everything conspired to condemn this union: the very recent death of Henry I; the young princes, still dependent on their mother, were young; and Anne and Raoul's respective situations, as well as the manner in which they had sought to satisfy their mutual passion, were all factors. Not only was the count of Valois already married, but his close kinship with Henry, Anne of Russia's first husband, would have been sufficient, according to the customs of the time, to invalidate any marriage between them. But nothing prevailed against the lover's impetuous passion and the beloved's unreasonable weakness.
  In any case, everything might have been resolved, so great was the count of Valois's power and the fear he inspired, had it not been for the bold protest of the wife he had abandoned.
  She, indeed, refused to resign herself to her fate. Overcome with fury and consumed by a thirst for revenge, she left for Rome as soon as she learned of how her fickle husband had used his newfound freedom, regained through the violent repudiation of which she had been the victim. She went directly to Pope Alexander II to lodge her complaints. He received her favorably, and she returned from Rome with a letter from the Holy Father to Gervais, archbishop of Reims, ordering him to conduct an investigation. The archbishop soon confirmed the facts alleged by the repudiated wife, and Alexander II ordered Raoul to dismiss the queen and take Eleanor back. Upon his refusal, he excommunicated him and declared their marriage null and void.
  Defying ecclesiastical censures, the count of Valois continued to live with his third wife. People gradually became accustomed to this irregular union. The king himself, no doubt fearing to alienate his powerful father-in-law, and perhaps also moved by a feeling of tenderness for his mother, who, until the blossoming of this unfortunate passion, had never failed in any of her duties, probably silenced his justifiable resentment. Indeed, we see Raoul and his two sons accompanying Philip I to Corbie as early as 1065 and signing a charter with him in favor of the abbey of Hasnon. Nevertheless, we find Anne mentioned in no charter issued by her son after her marriage to the count of Valois, except in the one he granted to the monastery of Saint Vincent at Senlis in 1069. But this exception is sufficiently justified by the fact that the king's mother was the founder of this convent, and it was practically impossible not to mention this in a charter concerning its foundation, issued in the very town where the abbey, established in gratitude for her piety, stood.
  This reservation, however, did not prevent good relations between mother and son, and Raoul de Crépy having died at Montdidier on September 8, 1074, his widow immediately reappeared at the court of Philip I.
  (1) Gall. Christ. XII, 242. Carlier, in his Histoire du Valois (Paris, 1704, 4to, Vol. I, p. 289), calls her Haquenez; but it is well known how wary one must be of this fanciful historian.

Death: 8 September 1074, in Montdidier, Somme, France

Empty tomb of Rodulfus "le Grand"
The now empty tomb of Raoul in the church of Saint-Pierre in Montdidier, Somme, France. His body was later moved to Crépy.
photo dated 2008 by Marc Roussel posted on wikipedia
Burial: in the church of Saint-Pierre, Montdidier, Somme, France. Nearly two years later, on 22 March 1076, Raul's body was exhumed and moved to the priory of Saint-Arnoul at Crépy.

De S. Simone Comite et Monachio in Acta Sanctorum Septembris vol 8 p722 (ed. G. H. Pertz, 1851)
Locum autem primæ sepulturæ Rodulfi fuisse Montem-Desiderii, testatur S. Simon in Charta pro Crispeiensi ecclesia, Audiatur etiam ipsemet: Ego Simon Dei Gratia comes … Radulphum patrem meum de Montesiderio, jam per tres annos post sui dissolutionem corporis ibi jacentem, apportari feci, et ecclesiæ sancti Aruulphi, quæ … in castello Crespeiaci … fundata est, in qua etiam ex aqua et Spiritu sancto renatus fuerat, reddidi; ibique … collocare feci.
This roughly translates as:
But the place of Rodolfo's first burial was Monte-Desiderio, testifies St. Simon in the Charter for the church of Crispei, Let us also hear himself: I Simon, by the grace of God, count … caused my father Ralph to be brought from Montesiderio, who had been lying there for three years after the dissolution of his body, and I returned him to the church of St. Aruulf, which was founded … in the castle of Crespeiac, in which he had also been reborn from water and the Holy Spirit; and there … I caused him to be placed.

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