Hattons

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The Hattons were a family of the Frankish nobility who held important positions of power in the Franconian Empire in the first half of the 9th century, i.e. under the emperors Charlemagne and Louis the Pious . As loyal followers of the emperors, including Lothar I , they were promoted and given goods and rights from the imperial property. They were used as governors and royal messengers ( missus ) in Bavaria and Saxony, but after the death of Ludwig the Pious they were deposed because of their loyalty to the emperor (and the idea of ​​imperial unity): One of the first acts of Ludwig the German after the death of his father was to drive the Hattons out of Saxony and give their property to the Corvey monastery (December 14, 840). The end of Hattonic power came at the latest with the Battle of the Wörnitz on May 13, 841, in which the allies of Lothar Ludwig the German were defeated.

Tribe list

  1. NN
    1. Hatto (Ato, Uto), 831/854 and maybe 857 Graf in Alemannia
      1. Lambert, Abbot of the Monastery of Rails (today Öhningen )
    2. Banzleib, 832 Count of Le Mans , 838 Count and Margrave in Saxony
    3. Adalbert, 825 attested, X May 13, 841 in the Battle of the Wörnitz , Count of Metz , dux Austrasiorum
    4. ? Daughter; ∞ Poppo I., Count im Grabfeld ( Popponen )

literature

  • Alfred Friese: Studies on the history of the rule of the Franconian nobility. The mainland-Thuringian region from the 7th to the 11th century. 1979
  • Gerd Althoff : About the names sent to Reichenau by Archbishop Liutbert. in: Frühmittelalterliche Studien Vol. 14 (1980) pp. 219–242, here pp. 233–235 and 237-239 PDF
  • Michael Borgolte : The Counts of Alemannia. , 1986, pp. 60-62
  • Walther Kienast : The Franconian vassal from the house chicks to Ludwig the child and Karl the simple. 1990
  • Karl Schmidt: Monastery rails. Pp. 282-303
  • Donald C. Jackman : The pedigree of the earliest German kings. In: Herold Yearbook. New series, Volume 15, 2010, pp. 47ff

Remarks

  1. ^ Philippe Depreux : Prosopographie de l'entourage de Louis le Pieux (781-840) . Sigmaringen 1997, ISBN 978-3-7995-7265-1 , p. 69-72 .
  2. ↑ Eric J. Goldberg: Struggle for Empire. Kingship and Conflict under Louis the German. 817-876 . Ithaca (New York) 2006, ISBN 978-0-8014-3890-5 , pp. 76.83.88-90.92-95.98-100.174 .
  3. ↑ Jackman, pp. 64/65