Matfried I (Orléans)

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Matfried I , Count of Orléans (* around 795; † 836/37), was the progenitor of the so-called Matfriede , one of the oldest consistently attested European noble families .

Ascent

Matfried's parentage is unknown. Expressed at the court of Emperor Ludwig the Pious from 815 , he played an important role there from 817 and was entrusted with various political and military tasks. He remained a loyal follower of the emperor until the emperor, at the instigation of his second wife, the empress Judith , began to question the imperial unity decided in the "Ordinatio imperii" in 817 and Judith, through her open partisanship against Ludwig's sons from his first marriage, the Hof and the Frankish nobility split into two warring camps. Nevertheless, he and Count Hugo von Tours accompanied the empress at the baptism of the Danish king Harald Klak in Ingelheim in 826 .

Fall

A less successful Spanish campaign in 827 triggered his fall. Moorish troops had occupied and sacked the entire area of ​​the county of Barcelona . Emperor Ludwig commissioned his son Pippin and Count Hugo von Tours and Matfried von Orléans to raise an army and rush to the aid of Count Bernhard of Barcelona . However, the recruitment was so hesitant that the Moorish troops were already in retreat when the relief army was finally set up. On the court day in February 828 in Aachen , Hugo and Matfried were relieved of their offices and fiefdoms because of their alleged hesitation and the delayed arrival of their army in the Pyrenees. This probably happened at the endeavors of the court party around Empress Judith and Bernhard of Septimania. Bernhard's cousin Odo , who had come west from the Rhine - Nahe region a few years earlier , received Matfried's county of Orléans .

rebellion

Thereafter, Matfried, as an indomitable advocate of the imperial unity idea of ​​817, was an irreconcilable opponent of Louis the Pious. In the uprisings of the emperor's sons of 830 and 833/34, he particularly supported Lothar I , who could not be right that his father-in-law Hugo von Tours had been ousted and that Matfried had been replaced by Odo, a cousin of Bernhard of Septimania and Judith's protégé.

In April 830, Ludwig's son Pippin of Aquitaine rose up in open rebellion against his father. He moved to Orléans, where he reinstated Matfried in his county. At the imperial assembly in Compiègne in late April or early May 830, Judith, who was accused of adultery, was sent to a monastery. Bernhard had fled to Barcelona and Odo was exiled to Italy. But in October, with the Imperial Assembly of Nijmegen , Emperor Ludwig was again in control of the situation. After Pippin was defeated by an imperial army near Limoges in 832 and fled to Italy after a short exile in Trier, Matfried lost his county again to Odo, who had returned from Italy.

During the second rebellion of the sons of Louis, 833/834, Matfried won a crushing victory over his successor Odo, the one from the spring 834 Seine - Loire resources deployed -region militia against him and Lambert of Nantes, the Margrave of Brittany Mark and Son-in-law of Lothar I, led. Matfried and his outnumbered Lotharians surprised the all too carefree Odo on the border with Brittany and achieved a total victory. Odo was killed in action, as were his brother William of Blois , Count Wido of Maine , Count Fulbert, and the abbot and imperial chancellor Theudo of Tours.

Exile and death

After the brothers Pippin and Ludwig had allied themselves against Lothar and put their father back in office in March 834, Lothar had to submit to his father in Blois in June 834 . Matfried had to go into exile in Italy in the wake of Lothar. Lothar generously compensated him and the other followers who were exiled with him. Matfried and many others of them succumbed to a rampant epidemic in 836/837 .

children

  • Matfried's son Matfrid II (* around 820; † after 882) administered a county in the Eifelgau from around 855 to 882 .
  • Matfried's daughter Ingeltrud (* 820/825; † before 878) married Boso in her first marriage and Wangar in her second marriage.

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personal data
SURNAME Matfried I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Orléans
DATE OF BIRTH at 795
DATE OF DEATH 836 or 837