Bernhard of Poitiers

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Bernhard von Poitiers († 844/45) was a Frankish nobleman in the first half of the 9th century and briefly Margrave of the Breton Mark .

biography

Bernhard was the brother of Emenon , Count of Poitou , who was one of the main supporters of King Pippin I of Aquitaine . When, after the death of Pippin I (838), Emeno proclaimed his son Pippin II to be the new King of Aquitaine, he was in opposition to Emperor Louis the Pious . Ludwig marched into Poitou, drove out Emeno and Bernhard and installed a new count in Poitiers. While Emeno fled to another brother, Turpion , Count of Angoulême , Bernhard went to Count Rainald von Herbauges .

In 844 he was appointed by Charles the Bald as Margrave of the Breton Mark , this being passed over to Lambert II of Nantes (again), who claimed the Mark as a paternal inheritance as well as Nantes. A little later Bernhard was killed in the fight against Lambert, although the details are unclear. According to one source, he died in battle as an ally of Renaud von Herbauges, another gives 844 as the year of his death; Ademar von Chabannes reports that Bernhard and Hervé were beaten and killed by Count Lambert of Nantes in the year after Renaud's death; the Chronicle of Saint Maxence specifically mentions the year 845.

family

Bernhard of Poitiers was married to Bilichildis, daughter of Rorico , Earl of Maine , and Bilichildis. The couple had at least two children:

It is not clear who Bernhard's parents were. Michel Dillange sees his brother Emenon (and thus also Bernhard) as the son of Dietrich II, Count von Autun , or his brother Adalhelm (Alleaume), which would assign him to the Gellones . At Schwennicke Bernhard von Gothien is shown as the grandson of Adalhelm (who is here an uncle of Dietrich II), which in view of Bilichilde as the mother and Rorico as the maternal grandfather forces Adalhelm to be the paternal grandfather.

swell

  • Ademar von Chabannes , Chronique III, J. Chavanon (ed.), 1897
  • Chronicon Aquitanicum,
  • Annales Engolismenses 844, MGH SS XVI, p. 486.
  • Marchegay, P., and Mabille, E. (eds.) (1869) Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou (Paris) Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis

literature

  • Alfred Richard: Histoire des comtes de Poitou, Vol. 1: 778-993 . Éditions PN, Pau 2003, ISBN 2-84618-098-9 (reprint of the Paris 1903 edition).
  • Karl Ferdinand Werner : Important noble families in the empire of Charlemagne. A personal historical contribution to the relationship between royalty and nobility in the early Middle Ages . In: Helmut Beumann (Ed.): Personality and History (Karl der Große. Lebenswerk und Nachleben; Vol. 1). 3rd edition. Verlag L. Schwann, Düsseldorf 1967, pp. 84-142.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ up to this point see the article on Emenon for the sources
  2. ↑ Ademar von Chabannes III, 16, p. 132: "Rainaldum comitem Arbatilicensem"
  3. ↑ Werner, S: 142
  4. ↑ Richard (1903) Volume I, p. 34, and Chronicon Aquitanicum 840-1025, 844, MGH SS II, p. 253.
  5. ↑ Annales Engolismenses 844, MGH SS XVI, p. 486.
  6. ^ Ademar von Chabannes III, 17, p. 133.
  7. ↑ Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis, Chroniques des Eglises d'Anjou, p. 365.
  8. ↑ The origin of Bernhard's wife results from the Historia Inventionis Sanctii Baudelli : "Gothorum princeps Bernardus cum avunculo suo Gauzleno tunc inclito Abbate, futuro autem episcopo" (Historia Inventionis et Translationis reliquiarium Sancti Baudelli martyris 878, RHGF IX, p. 111), after which Gauzlin was an Avunculus (mother brother) of Bernhard. Also Flodoard called "Gozlino ... Bernardo nepote ipsius" refers here but on Bernhard of Septimanien and its uprising 877 (Flodoardi Historia Remensis Ecclesiæ III, 24, MGH SS XXXVI, p 536.); in addition, it is mentioned in the excommunication files "Bernardum filium Bernardi et Belihildis" by Pope John VIII. 879 (Conventu Compendiensi IV, RHGF IX, p. 304). It is possible that these are the Bilichildis who later married Count Ramnul I of Poitou
  9. ↑ Detlev Schwennicke, European Family Tables Volume III.4 (1989) Plate 731
personal data
SURNAME Bernhard of Poitiers
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Frankish nobleman; Margrave
DATE OF BIRTH 8th century or 9th century
DATE OF DEATH 9th century