Conrad I, Count of Auxerre

Conrad I ( † 21 September after 862 ) was a son of Count Welf I and the Heilwig, a brother of the Empress Judith († 843) and Queen Hemma. Because of this relationship, he became one of the Emperor Louis the Pious († 840), who also shared his detention 833/834 closest confidants, and who managed to build a strong position of power in Upper Swabia his family.

He was one of the three ambassadors, who to their brother Lothar I sent 842 endowed by Charles the Bald and Louis the German with extraordinary powers to negotiate the division of the Frankish Empire and Lothar offer designated by them to the third part of the empire. The other two envoys were the seneschal Adalhard and Count Cobbo the Elder.

After the death of Louis the Pious he was at the conclusion of the Treaty of Verdun ( 843) involved. He was now consultant of its other brother in law, Louis the German until this 859 during a campaign in the West Frankish kingdom and left his half-brother on the opposite side, his biological nephew Karl joined the Bald with his sons. He was ten years earlier included after his marriage to Aelis, a daughter of Count Hugo of Tours from the family of Etichonen, as Count of Paris, in the kingdom of his nephew. Due to this change of sides Konrad lost all offices and counties in the eastern kingdom, but was compensated later on the west by the County of Auxerre.

Konrad led the following titles:

  • 830 " Dux nobilissimus " (ie Duke in Alemannia )
  • 839 - after 849 Count in Argengau,
  • 839 Count in Alpgau,
  • 844 Count in Linzgau,
  • 849 Count of Paris,
  • After 860 Count of Auxerre as a follower of Charles the Bald;

Konrad and Aelis had at least three sons:

  • Conrad II, Margrave of Transjuranien
  • Hugo Abbas, † May 12 886
  • Rudolf, † before 864, abbot of Saint -Riquier, 849 Abbot of Jumièges

And probably also

  • (Which could be also a son of Konrad's brother Rudolf) Welf II, 842/850 Graf Linzgau, 852-858 Count in Alpgau, the probable progenitor of Swabia Welf.

Aelis married after the death of Conrad's second wife 864 the Robertiner Robert the Strong (le Fort ), Count of Tours and Paris ( † September 15 866), which she Conrad's son Hugo Abbas, less Konrad II, when Charles the Bald had fallen into disgrace and had left the kingdom, again moved by the connection to the Robertiner the power center of the West Frankish Empire.

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