Emenon

Emenon († June 22 866 in Rancogne ) was Count of Poitou and later Count of Angoulême.

Life

On June 9, 828 Emenon was apparently held as Count of Poitou, the chairman of the court counselor, the King Pepin I of Aquitaine in Chasseneuil. He was the pious to Pippin's face in its fight against the Emperor Louis, and transferred by Pippin's death 838 support to his son Pepin II: Emenon proclaimed king Pepin II of Aquitaine in opposition to Emperor Louis, who invaded then in Poitou and 839 Emenon and his brother Bernhard sales. Emenon found in Angoulême refuge with Turpion, another brother.

He himself died in the third year of his reign, on 22 June 866 in the castle Rancogne to the injuries he in the fight against Landri, the Count of Saintes, the castle Bouteville had contracted. Emenon was buried in the church of Saint- Cybard in Angoulême.

Family

As is evident from the reports of his escape from Poitiers, Emenon had two brothers, Bernard and Turpion. He was married to a daughter of Count Odo of Troyes and his wife Wandilmodis, with whom he had at least two children:

  • Ademar, who was still a minor when his father died, and later Count of Poitou was, and
  • Adalhelm, the mother followed his uncle as Earl of Troyes.

From other sources shows that he joined another marriage. This wife was Sancha, daughter of Sancho and sister of Count Aznar Vasconia (House Gascony); with her he had a son:

  • Arnald, † 885/887, 864 Count (or Duke ) of Gascony

It is not clear who the parents Emenons. Dill Michel Ange sees him as the son of Dietrich II, Count of Autun, or his brother Adalhelm ( Alleaume ), which would assign him the Gellones. In Schwennicke is Bernard of Gothia, the son of Emenons brother Bernard of Poitiers, shown as grandson Adalhelms, which considering Bilichilde as a mother or wife and Rorico of Maine as maternal grandfather enforces that Adalhelm the paternal grandfather. In web.genealogie Emenon is referred to as the son of Rothaire / Rohier / Rathier / Ithier Count of Limoges, X 841 and a daughter of Pepin I of Aquitaine, which is already purely temporal ( Pippin married 822) is not possible ( Ratger was probably a son- Louis the Pious ).

Swell

  • Annales Engolismenses, MGH SS IV
  • Chronicon Aquitanicum
  • Marchegay, P., and Mabille, E. ( Ed.) ( 1869) Chroniques des Eglises d' Anjou (Paris) Chronicon sancti Maxentii Pictavensis
  • Adémar de Chabannes, Chronique III, J. Chavanon (ed.), 1897
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