Udo in Lahngau

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Udo (attested from 860 to 879) was a count in the Lahngau . He was the son of Count Gebhard and thus a member of the Konradin family . In a document from the year 861, he and his brothers are referred to as propinqui (close relatives) of Seneschal Adalhard .

Although his father had a good relationship with King Ludwig the German , Udo and his brothers took part in a conspiracy against the king, which resulted in their fling to Charlemagne in West Franconia: King Ludwig took them at the Reichstag in Regensburg Offices and fiefs, whereupon they went to their relative Adalhard in Lotharii Regnum , until an alliance between Ludwig and Lothar II forced the brothers and Adalhard to leave the Middle Kingdom; Since Adalhard was the maternal uncle of the West Franconian Queen Irmentrud , he could safely escort his relatives to the West Franconian court, where they were endowed with goods and fiefs by Charles the Bald. In 865, however, Adalhard and with him his relatives lost the favor of the king, presumably because of mistakes in the fight against the Normans. Only Ludwig the Younger , the son of Ludwig the German, got in touch with the brothers who had fled to West Franconia and promised them reinstatement in offices and fiefdoms.

Ludwig the German died in 876 and Ludwig the Younger apparently kept his promises, since in the year 879 Udo and his brothers as well as their father in connection with the founding letter for the St. Severus Abbey in Kettenbach / Gemünden in the Westerwald in eastern France, but for the last time , be mentioned.

Research suggests that Count Odo von Orléans was Udo's paternal grandfather. This makes Queen Irmentrud, who was certainly a daughter of Odos, an aunt of Udo (and his brothers) and Adalhard's great-uncle as the brother of Udo's grandmother Ingeltrud, which explains the term propinquus and Udo's acceptance at the West Franconian court.

At the same time, it is assumed that Udo was married to a daughter of Count Konrad I of Auxerre who was not known by name , which gave him a central place in the family structure (not only) at the West Franconian court: he was now

This marriage also shows how the Guelph lead names Konrad and Rudolf passed on to Udo's family, in which the name Konrad ultimately even became the name of the family itself and the king's name in Eastern Franconia and the Holy Roman Empire .

Udo's sons are:

literature

  • Ernst Dümmler : History of the East Franconian Empire, Volume I, 1865.
  • Friedrich Stein: History of King Konrad I of Franconia and his house, 1879.
  • Eduard Hlawitschka : The beginnings of the House of Habsburg-Lothringen. Genealogical research on the history of Lorraine and the empire in the 9th, 10th and 11th centuries, 1969, pages 49–51.
  • Eduard Hlawitschka: The ancestors of the high medieval German kings, emperors and their wives. An annotated table work, 2 parts in one volume, 2006.
  • Detlev Schwennicke: European Family Tables , Volume I.1, 2005, Table 8.
  • Alfred Friese: Studies on the history of the rule of the Franconian nobility. The mainland-Thuringian area from the 7th to the 11th century (1979) ( history and society, Bochum historical studies, volume 18).
  • Donald C. Jackman : The pedigree of the earliest German kings. In: Herold Yearbook. New episode. Volume 15, 2010, pp. 47-67.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Schwennicke
  2. ↑ Schwennicke; Hlawitschka, p. 189, from: Annales Bertiniani on the year 861 (p. 55) and on the year 865 (p. 80).
  3. ↑ Friese, p. 104, Hlawitschka, p. 164, from: Annales Fuldenses for the year 861 (p. 55).
  4. ↑ Dümmler, p. 463.
  5. ↑ Dümmler, p. 576.
  6. ↑ Dümmler, p. 593.
  7. ↑ Stein, p. 2.
  8. ^ Jackman / Fried, most recently in Jackman (2010), rejected by Hlawitschka.
  9. ↑ Jackman (2010), p. 52, and agreeing Hlawitschka (2006), pp. 7-13.
personal data
SURNAME Udo in Lahngau
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Udo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Graf im Lahngau
DATE OF BIRTH 9th century
DATE OF DEATH after 879