Lambert I of Nantes

Lambert I of Nantes ( † between 1 September and 10 November 836/837 ) was Count of Nantes, and Margrave of Breton Mark. He stepped in front of both offices at 818 ( in the year 806 he is as Count (of Nantes) and in the year 818 as Margrave ( the Breton Mark ) refers ) and lost it again 834. He went into exile in Italy and was in the same year, Duke of Spoleto. As the son and successor of Guy of Nantes, he was a member of the family of Guidonen.

Life

This year, 818 Lambert took part in a campaign which Louis the Pious against Morvan Lez- led Breizh, who had proclaimed King of the Bretons. After the uprising of the new head of the Bretons, Wiomarc'h ( Wihomarcus ), he was the instigator of 825 to his assassination after Wiomarc'h had submitted in May of the same year in Aachen, but had started again after his return, " his neighbors with violence and burning as much as he could, haunt, until he was surrounded and killed by the people of Earl Lantbert in his own home. "

When rebellion Lothar I, the eldest son of the Emperor Louis the Pious he stood on the side of the rebels. One of Count Odo of Orléans in June 834 mismanaged military campaign against Lambert and Matfried, Odos predecessor in Orléans and also he is a partisan of the rebel Lothar, to which the militia of the areas between the Seine and Loire up into the upper Burgundy had been summoned ended, a crushing defeat Odo: His army ravaged the country and moved confident of victory until the Breton border. There was defeated in a bloody battle after a surprise attack by Lambert and Matfried. Odo himself fell, as did his brother, Count William of Blois, Count of Maine Wido (perhaps a brother Lamberts ), Count Fulbert and the Imperial Chancellor, Abbot Theudo ( Theoto ) of Tours. Lothar's submission in June 834 in Blois meant, in consequence, for Lambert the end of his career in the western part of the Frankish Empire. He followed Lothar to Italy, which in the same year appointed him Duke of Spoleto.

Lambert of Nantes died between 1 September and 10 November of the year 836 or 837 - how many other Frankish nobles also - to a plague.

Children of Lambert were: