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Birth:          ABT  765 
Death:          ABT Oct  836 

Notes
of the House of Eticho
d Sept/Nov 836
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_of_Tours
Hugh (or Hugo) (c. 780 – 837) was the count of Tours and Sens during the reigns of 
Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, until his disgrace in February 828.

Hugh had many possessions in Alsace, as well as the County of Sens. He also held 
the convent of St-Julien-d'Auxerre. He appeared in 811 as an envoy or ambasciator to 
Constantinople with Haido, Bishop of Basel, and Aio, Duke of Friuli, to renew the Pax 
Nicephori. In 821, he allied himself by marriage to the royal family; his daughter 
Ermengard married Louis' son Lothair. In 824, he took part in an expedition in Brittany 
and, in 826, he accompanied the Empress Judith to the baptism of Harald Klak in 
Ingelheim. His other daughter, Adelaide, married Conrad I, Count of Auxerre (died 
862).[1] She is sometimes said to have taken as her second husband Robert the 
Strong. She was dead by 886, when Walahfrid Strabo included her epitaph in a poem 
of his.

In 827, Hugh, along with Matfrid of Orléans, was commissioned by Louis to recruit an 
army with his son Pepin I of Aquitaine and repel the invasion of the Marca Hispanica 
by the Moslem general Abu Marwan. Hugh and Matfrid delayed until the threat had 
passed. For this he was given the nickname Timidus or the Timid. Barcelona being the 
greatest military accomplishment of Louis' career, the Spanish March meant much to 
him and Hugh and Matfrid found themselves greatly disfavoured at court. They were 
deposed in February of the next year.

He remained very influential as the father-in-law of Lothair. He joined Matfrid in 
inciting Lothair to rebellion and had all his lands confiscated in Gaul. He remained 
highly influential in Italy, where Lothair created him "duke of Locate" (dux de Locate). 
He became a benefactor of the cathedral of Monza. According to the Annales 
Bertiniani, he and Lambert of Nantes died during an epidemic in Italy in 837. News of 
their deaths—and that of Wala of Corbie in an earlier Italian epidemic in the fall of the 
previous year—greatly distressed Louis the Pious, but the opponents of Lothair 
interpreted it as divine judgement.[2][3]

Parents
____ Liutfrid II (EST  740 - ABT  780)
____ Hiltrude ()

Siblings
OF TOURS Hugues II "Le Mefiant" (ABT  765 - ABT Oct  836)

Marriage To ____ Ava (Bava) (Aba) (ABT  779 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Ava (Bava) (Aba) ABT  779 - 
OF TOURS Ermengarde (ABT  800 - 20 Mar  851)
____ Hugh (ABT  800 - AFT  853)
OF TOURS Bertha (ABT  805 - )
OF TOURS Adelaide (Aelis) (ABT  820 - )

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