Guido of Nantes

Guido (Wido) of Nantes († 802/814) was Count of Nantes and Margrave of the Breton Mark . He was the son of Lambert of the family of Austrien originating guideschi and Bosonidin Deotbric.

Count Wido is the descendant and successor of the property of Warnharius, who founded the Hornbach monastery in the Palatinate around 742 ; Also descendants of Warnharius are Willigart (828 donor from Wilgartswiesen (Palatinate)) and her Nepos Warnharius; Werner , the progenitor of the Salier family, is one of the successors of the property and probably also one of the descendants of Warnharius , which proves the relationship between the two families without actually being tangible.

Guido appears for the first time together with the abbot Fulrad of Saint-Denis - still in the service of King Pippin the Younger († 768) - in Alsace and in Ortenau . In 782, under pressure from Charlemagne , he had to give up his claims that he had raised against the Mettlach monastery that his father had brought into his possession. In 796 he and his brother Warnharius appear as owners of the Hornbach Monastery.

He received rule over Nantes and the Breton Mark before 799, at the same time his brother Frodoald (Hrodolt) was subordinate to him as Count of Vannes ; in the period after that he seems to have largely subjugated Brittany - at least for a short time. Three years later (802) he is imperial missus in the Touraine .

He was succeeded in both Nantes and the Mark by his son Lambert I of Nantes , who is mentioned as count as early as 806 and as margrave in 818.

literature

• André Chédeville, Hubert Guillotel: La Bretagne des saints et des rois Ve-Xe siècle Editions Ouest France (1984) ISBN 2-85882-613-7
• Josef Fleckenstein : Fulrad of Saint-Denis and the Franconian attack in southern Germany. in: Studies and preparatory work on the history of the Greater Franconian and early German nobility Eberhard Albert Verlag Freiburg im Breisgau 1957
• Irmgard Dienemann-Dietrich: The Franconian nobility in Alemannia in the 8th century. in: Basic questions of Alemannic history. Lectures and Research Volume 1 Jan Thorbecke Verlag Sigmaringen
• The Reichsannals with additions from the so-called Einhard Annals . Sources on the Carolingian history of the empire Volume V Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft Darmstadt 1974
• Andreas Kalckhoff : Charlemagne. Profiles of a ruler. R. Piper GmbH & Co. KG, Munich 1987
• Lexicon of the Middle Ages IX, 67
• Michael Mitterauer : Carolingian margraves in the southeast. Archive for Austrian History Volume 123. Hermann Böhlaus Nachf./Graz-Wien-Köln 1963
• Pierre Riché,: Die Karolinger, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag Munich 1991
• Hermann Schreibmüller : The ancestors of Emperor Konrad II and Bishop Brunos of Würzburg, in Herbiopolis Jubilans. 1200 years of the Diocese of Würzburg. Festschrift for the secular celebration of the collection of the Kilian's relics, Würzburg diocesan history sheets 14/15 1952
• Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln Volume II (1984) Table 188b, as well as (improved version) Volume III.1 (1984) with the corrections and additions in the appendix
• Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history Volume II, Volume 2 European Imperial, Royal and Princely Houses II Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe, RG Fischer Verlag 1994, plate 389
• Noël-Yves Tonnerre: Naissance de la Bretagne , Presses de l'Université d'Angers (1994), ISBN 2-903075-58-9

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