Guy of Nantes

Guido ( Wido ) of Nantes ( † 802/814 ) was Count of Nantes, and Margrave of Breton Mark. He was the son of Lambert of the family originating from Austrasia Guidonen and Bosonidin Deotbric.

Count Wido is a descendant and successor of possession Warnharius, of the monastery of Hornbach in the Palatinate donated to 742; also descendants of the Warnharius are Willi Gart (828 giver of Wilgartswiesen (Pfalz ) ) and her Nepos Warnharius; to the possession successors and probably also to the descendants Warnharius ' heard beyond Werner, the progenitor of the Salian, making the relationship between the two families is busy, without being specific comprehensible.

Guido occurs the first time together with the abbot of Saint- Denis Fulrad - still in the service of the King Pippin the Younger ( † 768) - in Alsace and in Ortenau on. Under pressure of Charlemagne, he had 782 his claims that he rose to the monastery Mettlach that his father had brought into his possession, give up. 796 he and his brother Warnharius occur as the owner of the monastery of Hornbach on.

The domination of Nantes and the Breton Mark, he was before 799, at the same time his brother was Frodoald ( Hrodolt ) subordinate to him as Count of Vannes; in the aftermath, he seems to Brittany - have largely subject - at least briefly. Three years later (802 ) he is imperial missus in Touraine.

His successor in both Nantes and the Mark, his son Lambert I of Nantes, which is called as Margrave already 806 as Count and 818.