Hattonids
The hat- Onen were a family of Frankish nobles who occupied the Great and Louis the Pious, major positions of power in the Frankish Empire during the first half of the 9th century, ie under the Emperors Charles. As faithful followers of the emperor, even Lothar I, they were encouraged and provided with goods and rights from the imperial possession. They were as governors and royal messengers ( missus ) used in Bavaria and Saxony, after the death of Louis the Pious, but then because of their loyalty to the Emperor (and the idea of the unity of the empire ) were deducted: One of the first acts of Louis the German after the death of his father was to distribute the hat- Onen from Saxony and their possessions to the monastery of Corvey to give (December 14, 840). The end of the hattonischen came to power at the latest at the Battle of the Wörnitz on 13 May 841, in which the allies Lothar Louis the German documents.