Egfrid (Artois)

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Egfrid (Latin: Egfridum ; † after 892) was a count of Arras ( Artois ) in the 9th century.

It is unclear since when Egfrid officiated as count ( comitem ) in Arras ; however, he was already a count when the abbot of the Saint-Vaast monastery , Rudolf, died in January 892 . Egfrid was then sent by his followers to the court of King Odo in order to send this news of death to him and to receive the appointment of a new abbot, probably his own. But the people of Arras took advantage of his absence to join Count Baldwin II of Flanders , who immediately occupied the city and the abbey against the will of the king. The Count of Flanders thus provoked a break with King Odo, whom he was henceforth hostile to. In April of the same year a fire broke out in Arras, which also spread to Saint-Vaast Abbey. As the Annales Vedastini report, several relics were stolen from an unknown person.

King Odo was no longer able to drive the Count of Flanders from Arras, nothing of Egfrid has survived after 892. Only King Charles III. the simple-minded succeeded in snatching Arras from the Count of Flanders in 899. But he now installed Altmar as count. Egfrid was probably already dead at this point.

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  • Annales Xantenses et Annales Vedastini , ed. by B. de Simson in MGH SS rer. Germ. 12 (1909), pp. 70-71

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  1. ^ In the Annales Blandinienses Rudolf ( Unruochinger ) was wrongly named as Abbot of Saint-Bertin . See: MGH SS 5, p. 24
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SURNAME Egfrid
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egfridum
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Arras (Artois)
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH between 892 and 899