Agnes Comtesse de Ponthieu
- Born: Abt 1065
- Marriage: Sir Robert de Bellêsme Knight, comte d'Alençon before Sep 1101 141
- Died: After 6 Oct 1100, Ponthieu, Picardie
 Noted events in her life were:
• Background Information. 141
Robert de Montgomery married, before 9 September 1087, Agnes, eldest daughter and coheir of Gui I, comté de Ponthieu, by Ada. Agnes, who was sole heir to her father's comté, was treated cruelly by her husband, who kept her shut up for a long time in his castle at Bellême. She escaped by the help of a faithful chamberlain, took refuge with Adela Countess of Blois and retired to Ponthieu, and never returned to her husband. She was living on 6 October 1100, but died probably not very long afterwards. Robert died 8 May, not earlier than 1131, almost certainly in Wareham Castle and was presumably buried at Wareham.
~Cockayne's Complete Peerage, (Shrewsbury), Vol. XI, pp. 689-696
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Agnes de Ponthieu. 489
Agne's marriage to Robert de Montogommery de Bellême was arranged by William II King of England, according to Orderic Vitalis, who also specifies her father's name.
She was treated cruelly by her husband and imprisoned in the castle of Bellême, from where she escaped, took refuge with Adela Ctss de Blois, and retired to Ponthieu.
"Gulielmus comes Pontivorum" donated property to the abbey of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte for the souls of "… his father Robert de Belesmo and his mother Agnes…" by charter dated 1127.
Agnes married Sir Robert de Bellêsme Knight, comte d'Alençon, son of Roger de Montgomery et Vicomté de Hiémois and Mabel de Bellêsme Dame d'Alençon, before Sep 1101.125 (Sir Robert de Bellêsme Knight, comte d'Alençon was born about 1054 in Alençon, Orne, Normandy, France, baptized in St. Martin of Sées,141 died 8 May, not earlier than 1131 in Wareham Castle, Dorset, England and was buried in Wareham Castle, Dorset, England 125.)
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