 Hilduin was the founder of the House of Montdidier, which produced the Counts of Montdidier, Dammartin and Roucy.There is considerable confusion as to the immediate family of Hilduin among historians and genealogists because of the lack of documented evidence, the preponderance of the names of Hilduin and Manasses in the family and the existence of other contemporary Hilduins (particularly, the Count of Montreuil).The only creditable reference to Hilduin I was when Philip I, King of France, donated the village of Bagneux to the Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in exchange for Combs la Ville by charter dated 1061, which recounts that Hugh the Great had granted Combs to "Hilduino…comiti de Monte qui vocatur Desiderius", who died before his benefactor (before 956), and that Henry I, King of France, had regranted Combs to "Manasses nepos supradicti Hilduini comitis" [Manasses, grandson of Hilduin] just as "suus avunculus Hilduinus" [his uncle Hilduin] had held it, noting that "Odo comes filius prefati Manassetis" [Odo, son of Manasses] now claimed the property.