Beggo I.

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Beggo I. (* 755/760; † October 28, 816 ), also called Bego, Biego or Picco , was the second son of Count Gerhard I of Paris, the progenitor of Matfriede , from his marriage to Rotrud.

In 806 he was appointed by Emperor Karl to succeed William of Aquitaine and installed as Count of Toulouse ( Comes Tolosanus ). Beggo remained Count of Toulouse and Margrave ( marchio ) of Septimania until 811 . However, when his older brother Count Stephan of Paris died in 811 , he became his successor and held the position of Count of Paris until his death in 816 .

Marriage and offspring

After a first marriage to an unknown woman, he married Alpheidis around 806 (* probably 794, † July 23 after May 29, 852), an illegitimate daughter of the later Emperor Ludwig the Pious from the Carolingian family , and was in his in the last years of his life one of the confidants of the new emperor, to whose environment he belonged when Ludwig was still king of Aquitaine .

Beggo had a daughter Susanne from his first marriage, who married Wulfhard I in 825/830. Their son, Count Palatine Adalhard , was also Count of Paris from 882 to 890.

From his second marriage to Alpheidis, Beggo had two sons:

  • Leuthard, (* around 806, † 861/871), Count of Paris
  • Eberhard, (* around 808, † 861/871), ∞ NN

Beggo's home monastery was the "Fossas" monastery, which he had restored. After Beggo's death in 816, Alpheidis became abbess in Reims St. Peter 's convent , which she had received from her father, Emperor Ludwig, as a gift.

Individual evidence

  1. Biego de amici regis, qui et filiam imperatoris nomine Elpheid duxit uxorem, eo tempore defunctus est. (from the Annales Hildesheimenses for the year 815.)
  2. Ann. Laur. Min. (Cod. Fuldensis): "Picco, primus de amicis regis, qui et filiam imperatoris [1] duxit uxorem, defunctus est." [1] [ nomine Elpheid ] Ann. Hildesh.
  3. ^ Palatine Count Adalhard at medieval genealogy
  4. Flodoard , Hist. Remens. eccles. p.448: "Quod cenobium postea per precariam ipsius Alpheidis vel filiorum eius Letardi et Ebrardi ad partem et possessionem Remensis devenit ecclesie."
  5. Monasterium S. Petri Fossatense , restored as a Benedictine monastery by Witiza ( Benedict von Aniane ), from 868 repository of alleged relics of Maurus, in the 12th century the monastery was renamed after Maurus ( Saint-Maur Abbey , near Paris)
  6. Flodoard describes the monastery in his Reims church history as "monasterium S. Petri ad portam Basilicaris" . The current name is: St-Pierre-le-Bas
  7. Flodoard , Hist. Remens. eccles. p.448: "Quod monasterium Ludowicus Alpheidi, filie sue, uxori Begonis comitis, dono dedit"