Lambert II of Nantes

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Lambert II of Nantes (* before 834, † May 1, 852 ) from the Guidonen family was Count of Nantes and Angers . He was the second son of Count Lambert I of Nantes .

biography

After his father was deposed and exiled as part of King Lothar I , Lambert II and his brother Warnarius (Garnier) stayed in the county of Nantes in 834 .

Lambert fought on June 25, 841 in the Battle of Fontenoy-en-Puisaye on the side of Charles the Bald against Count Richwin of Nantes , his father's successor. Richwin fell, but the county of Nantes, which Lambert considered his legitimate heir, was given to Count Renaud of Herbauges , whereupon Lambert left the services of Charles and joined the Breton Nominoë .

Renaud defeated Lambert and his allies, the Bretons Nominoë and the Viking Hasting, in the Battle of Messac in 843, but was defeated shortly afterwards, on May 24th 843 ( IX Kalendas junii of the Chronicle of Aquitaine) in the Battle of Blain , in which he also was killed. The residents of Nantes refused to recognize Lambert as Count, especially since he was suspected of leading the Loire Normans into the city, which they sacked on June 24, killing the bishop in the cathedral. After his allies withdrew, Lambert was finally able to take possession of the city.

Lambert killed Count Bernhard von Poitiers and Renaud's son and successor, Hervé von Herbauges , in 844 . At the end of October or beginning of November 845 Lambert dissolved the alliance with Nominoe and submitted to the king, who left him in his function as Count of Nantes and also transferred the County of Angers and the Breton Mark to him.

In December 846 Lambert was driven out of the Nantais by the king. From 846 to 849, Charles the Bald tried to enforce one of his men, Amaury, as Count of Nantes. Charles the Bald called Lambert back in 849 and entrusted him with the Nantais, the County of Rennes and the country south of the Loire (probably Herbauges).

After August 15, 850, Nominoe and his allied Lambert, who had been deposed again by Charles, occupied Rennes and Nantes and had the city walls torn down to prevent the royal troops from returning. Lambert accompanied Nominoë 851 on his campaign against Neustria . After the sudden death of the Breton in Vendôme on March 7th, 851, Lambert took command and led the retreat of the Bretons. He then fought on August 22nd in the Battle of Jengland near Grand-Fougeray , in which the French were crushed, at the side of Erispoës , Nominoës son and successor. The contract concluded before the end of the year between Karl and Erispoë, in which the latter was awarded the title of king and the Breton Mark with Rennes and Nantes was ceded, destroyed Lambert's hope of being able to establish himself permanently in the region.

When trying to establish a new domain between Maine and Anjou , Lambert was killed on May 1, 852 in a battle with the Rorgonids . Lambert was buried in "Saponarias".

Around 850/851 Lambert had married Rotrud, the daughter of the former Emperor Lothar. With her he had a son, Witbert (Wicbert), for whom Lothar's son Lothar II took over the guardianship, and who in 869, after the death of Lothar II, became the guardian of his son Hugo, Duke of Alsace . Witbert carried the title of count, but apparently no longer had any authority in Nantes.

literature

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  • Regino : Chronicle. In: Fulda yearbooks. Regino: Chronicle. Notker: Acts of Karl (= sources on the Carolingian history of the empire. Vol. 3 = selected sources on German history in the Middle Ages. Vol. 7). 2nd, revised edition. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1969, p. 190.
  • Pierre Riché : The Carolingians. One family forms Europe (= dtv 4559). License issue. Deutscher Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-423-04559-0 , p. 277.
  • Rudolf Schieffer : The Karolinger (= Kohlhammer Urban pocket books. 411). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1992, ISBN 3-17-010759-3 , p. 147.
  • Hermann Schreibmüller : The ancestors of Emperor Konrad II and Bishop Brunos of Würzburg. In: Herbipolis 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). Würzburger Diözesangeschichtsverein, Würzburg 1952, pp. 173–233, here p. 189.
  • Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history. Volume 2: European imperial, royal and princely houses. Volume 2: Northern, Eastern and Southern Europe. RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-89501-011-1 , plate 389.
  • Noël-Yves Tonnerre: Naissance de la Bretagne. Géographie historique et structures sociales de la Bretagne méridionale (Nantais et Vannetais) de la fin du VIIIe à la fin du XIIe siècle. Presses de l'Université d'Angers, Angers 1994, ISBN 3-123-45678-9 .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Michel Dillange: Les Comtes de Poitou. Ducs d'Aquitaine (778-1204). Geste éditions, Mougon 1995, ISBN 2-910919-09-9 , p. 55.
  2. ↑ Annales de St Bertin AD 843: The Bretons Noménoé and Lambert, who had recently withdrawn their allegiance, killed Renaud, Duke of Nantes and made several prisoners
  3. ↑ Annales de St Bertin AD 844 Lambert and the Bretons attacked and killed some [of the men] of Charles Margrave at the bridge of Mayenne
  4. ↑ Annales de St Bertin AD 852 Lambert and Garnier, brothers, main perpetrators of the clashes, are killed, one in an ambush, the other in a criminal court
  5. ↑ Savonnières, district of Les Verchers-sur-Layon southeast of Angers (Schreibmüller) or Savenay west of Angers (Schwennicke)
personal data
SURNAME Lambert II of Nantes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Nantes
DATE OF BIRTH before 834
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 852