Hugh the Abbot
Hugo Abbas, also the abbot Hugo, French Hugues l' Abbé ( *, ? † May 12 886 in Orléans ) was one of the leaders of the West Frankish kingdom. At times he had the Ducatus regni held, so it was actually Reich Governor ( an appropriate title, however, is not attested in documents ). His nickname he owed to the fact that he possessed a " lay abbot " significant monasteries as sinecures and their related income.
Hugo came from the family of Burgundian Guelph. He was the younger son of Count Conrad I the Elder of Paris and Auxerre and Adelheid of Tours from the family of Etichonen. About his aunt, the Empress Judith, he was a cousin of their son, Emperor Charles II the Bald.
Hugo was 853 as successor to his father lay abbot of Saint- Germain d' Auxerre. At that time, he also received the office of a king messenger ( Missus Regius ) for the region in which he was wealthy ( Nivernais, area of Avallon and Auxerre). From 859-861, he was also lay abbot of Saint- Bertin. He was also to 861 lay abbot of Saint -Riquier. 861 he was apparently in Charles the Bald in disgrace and lose his own offices. Then he went into the service of the King Lothar II of Lotharingia, who wanted to make it in March 864 Archbishop of Cologne, although he had only the rank of subdeacon in the spiritual hierarchy; the project seems to have failed on local resistance. After some time, Charles the Bald reconciled with Hugo. 865 was Hugo Count of Auxerre.
864 had second husband, the Robertiner Robert married his mother the brave, the Marquis of Neustria, at the Battle of Brissarthe was 866 against the Allied Bretons and Normans. After Robert's death was the Bald used to succeed the fallen as commander in the area between the Seine and Loire Hugo Abbas of Karl, was thus Margrave of Breton Mark and was, moreover, Roberts offices of Count of Tours and Angers, and the benefice of a Laienabtes of Saint -Martin de Tours.
After the death of King Charles were he Gauzlin and probably Hincmar those representatives of the nobility, who provided the conditions for accession to the throne of Louis II. Upon the death of Louis again ( 879 ) Hugo tried the division of the empire between the sons of Louis Ludwig III. and prevent Carloman, then let them but (880 ) facing the threat of intervention from the eastern kingdom both crown; Also, he managed to take over the regency for both kings. In this time of loss of Provence Boso of Vienne and the loss Lotharingiens after the Treaty of Ribemont fall.
Hugo Abbas remained the guardian of Carloman in Aquitaine and Burgundy, Gauzlin it was in Neustria, and fought in this task further by the membership of Provence to the West Frankish kingdom. When, after the sudden death of Louis III. ( 882 ) the kingdom was reunited under Karl Mann, Hugo won again while in power, but just could against Gauzlin, who was appointed shortly thereafter became the Lord Chancellor not say.
In later years, he still received the offices of an abbot of Saint- Vaast (around 874), an abbot of Saint- Aignan in Orleans (before 876 ), an abbot of Saint -Julien in Auxerre ( 877), and Sainte- Colombe in Sens. To 880 he was finally Erzkaplan the royal chapel.
After his death, Hugo's possessions went to the Loire to Odo of Paris, the son of Robert the Brave, about which so finally took up his father's legacy. Hugo Abbas was buried in the abbey church of Saint- Germain d' Auxerre.