Hugh I, Count of Maine explained

• This article is based in large part on a translation of the article from the French Wikipedia on 10 July 2012.

Hugh I was count of Maine (reigned 900–933). He succeeded his father as of Count of Maine .

Life

He was the son of Roger, Count of Maine, and Rothilde, daughter of Charles the Bald.^[1] He succeeded his father .^[2] By a marriage of his sister Judith ^[3] to Hugh the Great sometime before 917, Hugh became an ally to the Robertians ending a long period of hostility between them.^[4] Around 922, King Charles the Simple withdrew the benefit of the Abbey of Chelles from Rotilde, Hughʻs mother and Hugh the Greatʻs mother-in-law, to entrust it to a favorite of his, Hagano.^[5] The favoritism shown Hagano caused a great deal of resentment and led, in part, to a revolt against Charles the Simple that placed Robert I of France on the throne.^[6] Even after the death of his sister when Hugh the Great married a second time he remained an adherent of the Robertians.

Family

By his wife, name unknown, very probably a Rorgonide,^[7] he had:

• Hugh II, Count of Maine (d. bef. 991).^[7]

Notes and References

1. Pierre Riché, The Carolingians; A Family who Forged Europe, Trans. Michael Idomir Allen (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1993), p. 237
2. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, 'Two Studies in North French Prosopography', Journal of Medieval History, Vol. 20 (1994), p. 10
3. [Europäische Stammtafeln]
4. Richard E. Barton, Lordship in the County of Maine, c. 890-1160 (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2004). p. 83
5. The Annals of Flodoard of Reims; 919-966, Ed. & Trans. Steven Fanning & Bernard S. Bachrach (University of Toronto Press, 2011), p. 6
6. Jim Bradbury, The Capetians: Kings of France, 987-1328 (Continuum, London & New York, 2007), p. 34
7. K.S.B. Keats-Rohan, Family Trees and the Root of Politics; A Prosopography of Britain and France from the Tenth to the Twelfth Century (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1997) p. 194