Udo of Neustria

Udo ( 860-879 testified ) was Count in Lahngau. He was the son of Count Gebhard and thus a member of the family of Conradines. In a document from the year 861 he and his brothers are called propinqui ( close relatives ) of the Seneschal Adalhard.

Although his father a good relationship with King Louis had the Germans, Udo and his brothers took part in a conspiracy against the king, which meant that they the Bald fled to Karl in western France: King Louis took them at the Diet of Regensburg offices and fiefs, after which they went into Lotharii Regnum their relatives Adalhard until an alliance between Louis and Lothar II the brothers and also Adalhard forced to leave the middle Kingdom; because Adalhard was the maternal uncle of the West Frankish queen Irmentrud, he could see it safely to his relatives in the West Frankish court, where they are endowed by Charles the Bald in goods and fiefs. In the year 865, however, lost Adalhard and his relatives with him the king's favor, probably due to failures in the fight against the Normans. It was not until Louis the Younger, son of Louis the German, entered into with the West Franks brothers fled in connection and promised them the re-establishment of offices and fiefs.

Louis the German died in 876 and Louis the Younger made ​​his promises true obviously since the year 879 Udo and his brothers as well as her father in connection with the founding letter for the monastery of St. Severus in chain Bach / Gemünden Westerwald in the eastern kingdom, but also the last time are mentioned.

In research, it is assumed that Count Odo of Orléans Udo's paternal grandfather was. This makes the Queen Irmentrud that a daughter Odos was sure an aunt Udo's ( and his brothers ) and Adalhard whose great-uncle as a brother of Udo's grandmother Ingeltrud, thus the term propinquus and Udo's recording on the West Frankish court explained.

At the same time it is assumed that Udo was married to an unnamed daughter of Count Conrad I of Auxerre, which he (and others) gained a central place in the kinship structure of the West Frankish court: he was now

  • Brother of Hugo Abbas,
  • Son of Adelheid of Tours, the second wife of Robert the brave and the mother of the later King Robert I from this marriage.
  • Nephew by marriage of Queen Hemma, the wife of Louis the German.

By this marriage is also clear how the Guelph Leitnamen Konrad and Rudolf went over to Udo's family, in the name of Konrad eventually even became the name for the family itself and the royal name in the eastern kingdom and the Holy Roman Empire.

Udo's sons are:

  • Conrad the Elder, X 906 Count in Oberlahngau etc.
  • Eberhard, X 902/903, Count of Niederlahngau
  • Gebhard, X 910, 903 Dux regni in Lorraine
  • Rudolf, X908, 892/908 Bishop of Würzburg
Gebhard, Count of the Lahngau Adalard the Seneschal West Francia Middle Francia Lothair II Ermentrude of Orléans Hugh the Abbot Robert I of France East Francia Donald C. Jackman Annales Fuldenses Integrated Authority File
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