Hugh (abbot of Saint-Quentin)
Hugo (* 802/806, † June 14 844 ), called the Abbot ( Hugo Abbas, Hugues l' Abbé, not to be confused with the Guelph Hugo Abbas, † 886 ), was an illegitimate son of Charlemagne and the last Lord Chancellor Louis the Pious.
Biography
Hugo was born 802-806, the son of Charlemagne from his extramarital relationship with Regina; He was the younger full brother of Bishop Drogo of Metz ( * 801) and the half-brother of Louis the Pious. From 814 he was one of those at table Louis, 818 but also to the family members of the emperor, the ( April 17 818) after the rebellion of Bernard of Italy, and his death by now the family miss daring Ludwig was removed from his environment. Hugo received the tonsure at the command of his half brother and was exiled to the abbey Charroux.
The handling, the Louis the Pious with the closest members of his family used, and in particular the ( unintended ) Bernhard's death brought Ludwig as a ruler so much in the criticism that he a few months after the death of his close aide Benedict of Aniane († 11 February. 821 ) in mid-October on a national assembly 821 in Thionville the followers of Bernard pardoned and lifted the longstanding ban his cousins Adalhard and Wala. Shortly thereafter ( 822/823 ) the exiled half-brothers were compensated with prominent spiritual offices. For Hugo, this meant the Abbey of Saint -Quentin, whose abbot, he was appointed.
Participation Hugos in intra- family disputes the next ten years is not known. Unknown, therefore, are the reasons that prompted Louis to make him his Lord Chancellor, after he was recognized on March 1, 834 in the Abbey Church of Saint -Denis again as emperor, and was killed in June, the incumbent abbot Theoto of Marmoutier. Hugo's first known appearance as Lord Chancellor dated July 3, 834 In the year 836 Hugo yet received the abbey of Saint- Bertin, beyond the abbeys Lobbes and NOAILLE.
After Louis died on 20 June 840 and escalated the succession disputes among his sons, Hugo did initially hard to choose a side. After the battle of Fontenoy (841), he joined in September 841 the victors and Karl Ludwig and advanced to Charles Erzkaplan. Later, probably after agreement of Charles, Louis and the new emperor Lothar, he was back in the service of the latter.
In the year 834 he intervened in the fighting between Charles and the overridden in the division of the kingdom of 843 Pepin II of Aquitaine. When Karl Toulouse besieged, Hugo was sent to help with an army and placed in Angoumois on June 14, 844 of Pippin and beaten, said Hugo was killed. Pippin was, a desire Hugos following, bring his body to the abbey Charroux and bury there.