Rorgon I. (Maine)

Rorgon I. , also called Rorico or Rorich (* around 770 ; † June 16, 839 ) was a Neustrian nobleman, Count of Rennes and Maine .

Life

Rorgon was the son of Gauzlin I, Lord of Maine, and his wife Adeltrude. He came to the court of Charlemagne around 800 and had a relationship with his daughter Rotrud (775–810), with whom he probably had two illegitimate children:

• Ludwig (* around 800; † 867), later the abbot of Saint-Denis and chancellor of Charles the Bald
• Adaltrud, ∞ Gerhard , Duke of Auvergne

He later married an otherwise unknown Bilchilde, with whom he had other children:

• Gauzfried († 886), Earl of Maine ∞ NN
• Bilchilde ∞ Bernhard of Poitiers (X 844/845; Gellone ), ∞ II. Count Ramnulf I (Poitou)
• Gauzlin , Bishop of Paris , Arch Chancellor Charles the Bald
• Rorgon II (around 808 - 865), 839 Earl of Maine
• Gauzbert II , Earl of Maine

Louis the Pious enfeoffed him in 819 with the County of Rennes. In 824 he founded the Abbey of Saint-Maur de Glanfeuil . He became Earl of Maine in 832.

The family of the first earls of Maine is named after him Rorgonids .

literature

• Pierre Riché: Les Carolingiens, une famille qui fit l'Europe. Hachette, Paris 1983 (reprint 1997), ISBN 2-01-278851-3 .
• Michel Mourre: Le Petit Mourre. Dictionnaire d'Histoire universelle. Editions Bordas, 2007, ISBN 978-2-04-732194-2 .
• Régine Le Jan: Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siècle). Essai d'anthropologie sociale. Publication de la Sorbonne, Paris 1995, ISBN 2-85-944268-5 , p. 445.