Richwin (Verdun)

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Richwin or Ricuin (Latin: Ricuvinus ; † November 15, 923 ) was a count of Verdun in the 9th and 10th centuries.

Richwin is first mentioned as Count of Verdun in a document from King Zwentibold of Lotharingien dated August 14, 895, which was addressed to the Saint-Mihiel monastery. As a "meritorious count" he is named together with Wigerich on January 23, 899 at the side of the same king. After his death the following year, Richwin apparently turned to the West Franconian King Charles III. to the simple-minded , in whose wake he is named on February 12, 912. Once again with the Count Palatine Wigerich and for the first time with his son Otto, Richwin is mentioned next to the king on January 9, 916 in Herstal . Shortly afterwards Wigerich died and Richwin married his widow, Kunigunde . Since then he has also appeared as lay abbot of Moyenmoutier and Saint-Pierre in Metz , presumably he also held the office of Count of Metz.

In 921 Richwin took part in the rebellion of the Lotharing greats against the rule of King Charles the Simple in favor of the East Frankish King Henry I. On November 15, 923 he was murdered by Boso lying in his bed , possibly on behalf of his stepson Adalbero , the later Bishop of Metz. The murder of him by the brother of the new West Franconian King Rudolf intensified the apostasy of the Lorraine nobility towards the East Franconian Empire.

In his first marriage, Richwin was married to the daughter of a Count Ingelram, whose identity cannot be determined. With her he had the son Otto , who later rose to become Duke of Lorraine. His second wife, Kunigunde, was the widow of Count Palatine Wigerich and on his mother's side a granddaughter of King Ludwig II of West Franconia the Stammler .

literature

  • Jean-Pol Evrard: Les comtes de Verdun aux Xe et XIe siècles , in: Publications de la Section historique de l'Institut Grand-Ducal de Luxembourg (1981), pp. 153-182
  • Rüdiger E. Barth: The Duke in Lotharingien in the 10th Century (1990)

Individual evidence

  1. in pago Uridunensi in comitatu Rihuuini , see in: The documents of Zwentobold and Ludwig of the child , ed. by Theodor Schieffer in MGH DD Zw (1960) p. 21, no. 3
  2. Richquinus et Widiacus vernerandi comites , see in: The documents of Zwentobold and Ludwig of the child , ed. by Theodor Schieffer in MGH DD Zw (1960), p. 66, no.27
  3. Martin Bouquet : Recueil des Historiens des Gaules et de la France (RHGF) 9 (1995), p. 516
  4. Flodoard , Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), pp. 5-6
  5. On the murder and year of death see Flodoard, Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), pp. 12-13
  6. On the day of death see Liber memorialis von Remiremont , ed. by Eduard Hlawitschka, Karl Schmid and Gerd Tellenbach in MGH Libri mem. 1 (1970), p. 76; Richwin is called here as Riquinus dux .

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before 895–923
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