Herbert was Count de Vermandois, Siegneur of Senlis, Peronne and St. Quentin. {- ref. "Ancestral Roots of Sixty New England Colonists," by F.L.Weis (Lancaster, Mass., 1950, p. 64).} Allstrom's "Dict. of Royal Lineage," Vol. ii, p. 755, states that Herbert m. Richilde, dau. of Robert the Strong who died in battle, 866/67. Herbert I was Imperial Ambassador.

References: [Weis1],[AR7],[ES],[RFC]