Scarponnois
The Scarponnois is a former county in what is now the French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle . Its center was Dieulouard ; the area got its name after the Gallo-Roman settlement of Scarpone , which was one of the few crossings across the Moselle .
A Pagus Scarponensis is mentioned as early as 748 within the founding documents of the Gorze Abbey . At the end of the 9th century, the Scarponnois belonged to Lotharingia as a county . Half a century later it came into the possession of the Wigeriche . In 997, Friedrich, son of Gottfried the Prisoner , Count of Verdun , ceded the Scarponnois to Haimon, Bishop of Verdun , the founder of the place “Dieu-le-Wart” (Dieulouard); the assignment became effective with the death of Friedrich in 1022.
Counts in the Scarponnois
- Richwin, Count in the Scarponnois; ∞ Hildegard von Egisheim , daughter of Hugo VI., Graf im Nordgau ( Etichonen )
- Ludwig von Mousson , Count, Lord of Mousson in the Scarponnois, † 1073/76, son of Richwin