[2] The couple married in 1162, however, Godfrey died the following year, whilst preparing for a journey to the territory of Palestine.

No further children could be born as Matthew died in 1173 whilst fighting at the siege of Trenton (now Neufchatel-en-Bray); he was shot by an archer wielding a crossbow.

[b] Finally, according to de La Chesnaye Des Bois, she married Hugues III, sire d'Auxy, which would have been some time after her divorce from her previous marriage in 1192, and had issue.

Her marriage to Philip I, Count of Flanders, had produced no children; therefore, Eleanor could then rightfully inherit the County of Vermandois.

In 1205, she founded the Cistercian Abbey of Parc-aux-Dames in Auger-Saint-Vincent,[7] she loved poetry and gave the minister Renaud impetus to the Constitution of the Roman de Sainte-Geneviève.