- The
Rorgonids were a
powerful Frankish family dating from the
eighth century. They are
sometimes referred to as the
first Mayennaise dynasty, referring...
- blood. Were this the case, he
would have come from the same
stock as his
Rorgonid rivals, with whom he
disputed the
county of Maine.
Christian Settipani...
- The
county of
Perche was a
medieval county lying between Normandy and Maine. It was held by an
independent line of
counts until 1226. One of these, Geoffroy...
- 16 June 839 or 840) was the
first Count of
Maine and
progenitor of the
Rorgonid dynasty,
which is
named for him. He was
Count of
Rennes from 819 and of...
-
descended from
Rorgon I,
Count of Maine, and
therefore part of the Rogonid/
Rorgonid dynasty.
Little is
known about Geoffrey,
other than he was
closely ****ociated...
- This is a list of
consorts of Maine, a
former province of France. Joan the Lame and Joan I,
Countess of Auvergne,
became Queen of
France following the...
-
extended over the
county of Le Mans and he was
immediately opposed by the
Rorgonids, who
controlled the city. They
intrigued against him and his relatives...
- made a
claim to the
throne of
France on that basis. The
Widonids and the
Rorgonids competed for
control of the
Breton March through much of the
ninth century...
-
whose son
Charivius has been
speculated to have been an
ancestor of the
Rorgonids Ragobert (d. 678) Folchaid,
married Theodo of Bavaria.
Settipani identifies...
- on the Loire,
dominating central France.
Theobald and his
first wife of
rorgonid origin had:
Theobald (d. 962). Hildegarde,
married Bouchard de Bray, Lord...
