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• Philippe I, King of France ( May 23, 1052 - July 30, 1108)
• Hugues ("Magnus"), later Count of Crépi ( 1057 - October 18, 1102), who married the heiress of Vermandois and died on crusade in Tarsus, Cilicia.
• Robert (ca 1055 - ca 1060)

For six years after his death in 1060, she served as regentFor the insecticide 'Regent', see Regent (insecticide A regent is an acting governor. In a monarchy, a regent usually rules due to the actual monarch's absence, incapacity, or minority. In the case of Finland and Hungary, military officers served as regen for their son, Philip, who was 7 at the time of his father's death. She was the first queen of France to serve as regent.

A year after the King's death, Anne, acting as Regent took a passionate fancy for Raoul II (III?) de Péronne, Count of Crépy, of Valois and of the Vexin, a man whose political ambition encouraged him to repudiate his wife to marry Anne in 1062. Accused of adultery, Raoul's wife appealed to Pope Alexander IIAlexander II born Anselmo Baggio (d. April 21, 1073), pope from 1061 to 1073, was a native of Milan. As bishop of Lucca he had been an energetic coadjutor with Hildebrand in endeavouring to suppress simony, and to enforce the celibacy of the clergy. His e, who excommunicated Raoul and Anne. The young king Philippe forgave his mother, which was just as well, since he was to find himself in a very similar predicament in the 1090s. Raoul died in September 1071.