Gérard (Auvergne) d'Auvergne (abt. 795 - 841)

Born about 0795 in Poitiers, Aquitaine, France

Descendants

Died 25 Jun 0841 at about age 46 in Fontenoy, Yonne, France

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Biography

Gerard (d. 25 Jun 841 Battle of Fontenoy)[2]^[1]

Titles

• Comte d'Auvergne[3]

Parents

UNKNOWN[4]

Siblings

• Guillame[5]

Marriage

m.1 UNKNOWN. Issue: 1 - 2

• Ramnulf (Rainulf) I, Comte de Poitou

• (disputed ... see below) dau ____ [6]

m. Foulques de Limoges

m.2 (unproven) Mathilde d'Aquitaine (p. Pepin I, King of Aquitaine and Ringardis). Issue: 0 - 1.[7]

• (disputed ... as above) dau _______^[2]

m. Foulques de Limoges

• Gerard (d. ante 879)[8]

m. Aldatrude UNKNOWN

Battle of Fontenoy

Battle of Fontenoy:^{[citation needed]}

Ludwig I died on 20 June 840, on an island in the Rhine, while the head of an army he led against his son Louis. On 24 July in Strasbourg 840 the new Emperor Lothair said that everything must be under its control and with his nephew Pepin II to attack it from the Loire river on an old Roman road. The preparations of war committed on both sides. The Count of Paris, Girard II who married Bertha, sister of Tours Ermengarde, wife of Lothaire, is in the camp of his brother-in-law. In March 841, the Burgundians Guérin faithful to join their king. In May, Louis and his troops, who join in Châlons-sur-Marne. In June, Pépin II and found its Aquitanians Lothaire Auxerre.Les 150 to 000 men on each side are in battle since June 21. Tradition has it that Charles has set up its camp at Thury on the Hill Roichat. Lothair and Pepin II will prevail when all of a sudden, the arrival of Guerin (or Warin or Garin), Duke of Provence, at the head of an army of southern reverses the situation. If everyone has chosen their camp, this is not the case of the Marquis Bernard de Septimanie, awaiting the outcome of the confrontation before heading to the winner. Finally, the confrontation ended with a resounding victory of Charles the Bald and his half-brother Louis the German. The losses amount to 40 000 deaths, including Gérard comte d'Auvergne and Ricouin (near Charles) de Nantes. In principle Lothaire is reconciled on the tomb of St Germain in Auxerre, but this is just a sham as the conflict resumed in February 842 and 14 in a snowstorm before the walls of Strasbourg and Louis Charles exchanged before their armies for oaths to strengthen their alliance against Lothair. They get another victory to the west of Koblenz. Lothaire had fled to Aachen in March 842 taking refuge in Lyon. The preliminaries of peace were signed in an island in the Saône near Macon, June 15 with 842 out of sharing a treaty signed at Verdun in early August 843; Yutz confirmed in 844 and 847 in Meerssen.

Low Burgundy with counties towns of Chalon-sur-Saône, Autun, Mâcon, Nevers, Auxerre, Sens, Tonnerre, Avallon and Dijon, is attached to the kingdom of Charles. On 25 June 841, the Battle of Fontenoy determined the partition of the empire of Charlemagne. The nations that are formed embryos were from Germany, Italy and France. The Western world was marked by the fall of an empire so powerful.^{[citation needed][3]}

Sources

1. ↑ Different sources point to either of the sisters Hildegarde or Rotrude as his wife. As Hildy had the Count of Champagne, I am treating Ro as winning Ger. Many sources give a birth date of 795. Some sources site Warin De Thurgovie and Alba d'Autun as his parents, others Bera De Razes and Ermengarde De Hesbaye, others Renaud of Poiters (which we are going with here).Different sources point to either of the sisters Hildegarde or Rotrude as his wife. As Hildy had the Count of Champagne, I am treating Ro as winning Ger. Many sources give a birth date of 795. Some sources site Warin De Thurgovie and Alba d'Autun as his parents, others Bera De Razes and Ermengarde De Hesbaye, others Renaud of Poiters (which we are going with here).^{[citation needed]}
2. ↑ Gerard's unknown daughter, could have been the child by either of his wives (Cawley, 2006).
3. ↑ also see: "La Bataille de Fontenoy n'a pas eu lieu dans l'Aisnes mais dans l'Yonne près d'Auxerre à Fontenoy-en-Puisaye..."[1]

• Ancestral Roots; Fredrick Weis; Seventh Edition, 1992.
• Wikipedia: Battle of Fontenoy (841)
• Pedigrees of Charlemagne's Descendants, Vol. III Author: Compiler: Buck Jr., J. Orton; Beard, Timothy F. Publication: Genealogical Publishing Company, Balitmore, reprint 2002
• Chapter XLVI, Fowke-Mitchell-Norris, p.158-160