Bernard, Count of Poitiers

Bernard of Poitiers ( † 844/45 ) was a Frankish nobleman of the first half of the 9th century and briefly Margrave of Breton Mark.

Biography

Bernhard was the brother of Emenon, Count of Poitou, who was one of the main supporters of the King Pippin I of Aquitaine. As Emeno after the death of Pepin I ( 838 ) whose son Pepin II proclaimed the new king of Aquitaine, he sat down with it in opposition to Emperor Louis the Pious. Louis marched into a Poitou, sales Emeno and Bernhard and sat in Poitiers a new one counts. While Emeno to another brother, Turpion, Count of Angoulême, flea, Bernhard went to Count Rainald of Herbauges.

844 he was appointed by Charles the Bald as Margrave of Breton Mark, said Lambert II of Nantes ( again ) passed, as well as the Nantes claimed the Mark as paternal inheritance for themselves. A little later, Bernhard came to the fight against Lambert, the details are unclear. According to one source, he died in battle as an ally of Renaud Herbauges ', another called 844 as the year of death; Ademar of Chabannes reported Bernhard and Hervé were in the year after the death of Count Renaud Lambert of Nantes been beaten and killed, the Chronicle of Saint Maxence specifically mentions the year 845

Family

Bernard of Poitiers was married to Bilichildis, daughter of Rorico, Count of Maine, and Bilichildis. The couple had at least two children:

  • Bernard of Gothia
  • Emenon which 878 participated in the rebellion his brother and 879 as this was excommunicated.

It is not clear who were the parents of Bernard. Dill Michel Ange sees his brother Emenon ( and thus probably also Bernhard ), the son of Dietrich II, Count of Autun, or his brother Adalhelm ( Alleaume ), which would assign him the Gellones. In Schwennicke Will Bernard of Gothia grandson Adalhelms (which here is an uncle of Dietrich II ) are reported which, given Bilichilde as a mother and as Rorico maternal grandfather enforces that Adalhelm the paternal grandfather.

Swell

  • Ademar of Chabannes, Chronique III, J. Chavanon (ed.), 1897
  • Chronicon Aquitanicum,
  • Annales Engolismenses 844, MGH SS XVI, p. 486
  • Marchegay, P., and Mabille, E. ( Ed.) ( 1869) Chroniques des Eglises d' Anjou (Paris) Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis
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