Lambert II of Nantes
Lambert II of Nantes ( * before 834; † May 1 852) from the family of Guidonen was Count of Nantes and Angers. He was the second son of Count Lambert I of Nantes
Biography
After the deposition and banishment of his father as a partisan of King Lothar I. Lambert II and his brother remained Warnarius ( Garnier ) 834 in the county of Nantes.
Lambert fought on 25 June 841 at the Battle of Fontenoy -en- Puisaye on the side of Charles the Bald against Richwin Count of Nantes, the successor of his father. Richwin fell, but the County of Nantes, which looked at Lambert as his legitimate heir, was given by Count Renaud Herbauges, whereupon the services of Charles Lambert left and the Bretons Nominoë joined.
Lambert killed 844 Count Bernard of Poitiers and the son and successor Renaud, Hervé of Herbauges. Late October or early November 845 Lambert broke the alliance with Nominoe and submitted to the king, the Reserve left him in his role as Count of Nantes and Angers him also the county and the Breton Mark transferred.
In December 846 Lambert was driven by the king from the Nantais. Charles the Bald tried 846-849 one of his men, Amaury enforce as Count of Nantes. Charles the Bald Lambert called 849 back and entrusted him with the Nantais, the county Rennes and the land south of the Loire (probably Herbauges ) to.
After 15 August 850 occupied Nominoe and again allied with him Lambert, who had been deposed again by Karl, Rennes and Nantes, leaving the city walls torn down to prevent a return of the royal troops. Lambert accompanied Nominoë 851 in its campaign against Neustria. After the sudden death of the Bretons in Vendôme, on 7 March 851, Lambert took command and led the retreat of the Bretons. Then he fought on August 22 at the Battle of Jengland at Grand Fougeray, in which the French were defeated, at the side Erispoës, Nominoës son and successor. The closed before the end of the contract between Charles and Erispoë, awarded to in the latter the title of king and the Breton Mark with Rennes and Nantes was ceded, destroyed Lamberts, hoping to settle permanently in the region.
When trying to build a new territory between Maine and Anjou, Lambert was killed on May 1, 852 in a skirmish with the Rorgoniden. Lambert was buried in " Saponarias ".
To 850/851 Lambert Rotrud had married the daughter of the former Emperor Lothar. With her he had a son, Witbert ( Wicbert ), Lothar's son Lothar II took over the guardianship for, and the 869, after the death of Lothair II, in return guardian of his son Hugo, Duke of Alsace. Although Witbert bore the title of count, but had in Nantes apparently no more power.