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• House: Rogonid
• FSID: LDSS-H8K
• Appointments / Titles: Between 819 and 840, Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France; Comte de Rennes
• Appointments / Titles: Between 832 and 840, Maine (Historical), France; Count

Notes:

Rorgon I or Rorico(n) I (also Rorgo or Rorich; died 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 Maine from 832 until his death.

He was a son of count Gauzlin I of Maine[1] and Adeltrude, both of whom are named as his parents in a charter of 839 by Rorgo I to the Abbey of Saint-Maur de Glanfeuil.[2] Between 819 and 832 Rorgon became count of Maine and at some point, possibly at the bidding of his wife Bilechilde who may have owned the property, undertook to restore the Abbey of Glanfeuil. An Abbot Ingelbert of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés allegedly assisted Rorgon and sent monks including Rorgon's brother Gausbert.[a][3] Gausbert (Gauzbert) was the name of an Abbot at St. Maur.[4]
Count Rorgon had been a retainer at the court of Charlemagne, with whose daughter Rotrude he had a sexual relationship.[5] The couple had at least one illegitimate child, Louis, Abbot of Saint-Denis, Saint-Riquier, and Saint-Wandrille,[5] who was also chancellor to his cousin Charles the Bald from 841.[4]

Rorgon became the second Count of Maine in 832 when his predecessor Banzleibs was made Margrave of the Saxons. He remained Count of Maine until his death in 840, at which time he was succeeded by his brother Gauzbert. His own son, Rorgon II, succeeded Gauzbert in 853 and upon his death in 865 his other son Gauzfrid became Count.
Marriage and issue[edit]

Rorgon married a lady named Bilechilde,[4] and had three sons and two daughters:
• Rorgon II of Maine[4]
• Gauzfrid of Neustria[4]
• Gauzlin, Bishop of Paris[4]
• Bilechilde, who married Bernard II, Count of Poitiers[4]
• Adaltrude, who married Ramulf, Count of Poitiers[4]
Rorgon and Rotrude had one illegitimate son—Louis, Abbot of Saint-Denis, Saint-Riquier, Saint-Wandrille, and Chancellor to King Charles the Bald.

Rorgon married de Poitiers, Bilichilde I in 820 in Maine (Historical), France. Bilichilde (daughter of de Poitiers, Adalelme and de Cahors, Ayga) was born in 783 in Maine (Historical), France; died on 1 Mar 839 in Maine (Historical), France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. du Maine, Blichilde was born in 815 in Maine (Historical), France; was christened in 837 in France; died in 865 in France; was buried in 865 in Saint-Jean de Montierneuf, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France.

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• FSID: G8NQ-19S

Gauzlin married de Bourges, Aldetrude in 769 in France. Aldetrude (daughter of de Bourges, Count Humbert and de Champagne, Countess Altrude) was born in 750 in Frencq, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; was christened in 770 in Frencq, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France; died in 825 in France; was buried in 825 in Cathedrale Saint-Maurice, Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: GCPN-2LT

Notes:

Adeltrude was the wife of Gauzlin Du Maine, also Gauzlin I,
Together they had the following children:
Rorgon I Count of Maine b.770
Gauzbert, Count of Maine b.775

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• FSID: G8SQ-XHH
• Death: 770, Sillé, Sarthe, Pays de la Loire, France

Gozlin married de Champagne, Countess Altrude in 749 in France. Altrude (daughter of de Bourges, Optatus II, daughter of de Champagne, Godfried and de Bourges, Pomponia) was born in 730 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died in 788 in Bourges, Cher, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Nickname: Pomponia
• FSID: GDN5-QW9
• Birth: 705, France
• Birth: 730, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France

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• Appointments / Titles: Bourges, Cher, Centre, France; Count
• FSID: GH4Z-R1P

Humbert married de Champagne, Countess Altrude. Altrude (daughter of de Bourges, Optatus II, daughter of de Champagne, Godfried and de Bourges, Pomponia) was born in 730 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France; died in 788 in Bourges, Cher, Centre, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Nickname: Pomponia
• FSID: GDN5-QW9
• Birth: 705, France
• Birth: 730, Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France

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• FSID: GW44-BD4

Notes:

Gotfrid of Champagne was the son of Drogo of Champagne and his wife Anstrude of Neustria and Burgundy. He was born in Champagne about 700. He was the younger brother of Arnulf, Duke of Champagne and Hugh Archbishop of Rouen, and older brother of Pippin. He was also the grandson of Pepin of Herstal.

In 723 it is recorded that at the command of Gotfrid's paternal uncle Charles Martel "two sons of Drogo were bound, Arnold [Arnulf] and another who died", either Gotfrid or Pippin. (Recorded in the Annales Nazariani, the Annales Petaviani, Annales Laureshamenses and Annales Alamannici.) As most records give Gotfrid's year of death as 735, it appears that it was Pippin and not Gotfrid who died at the hands of their uncle.

Godfried married de Bourges, Pomponia. Pomponia (daughter of de Bourges, Optatus Aridius I and de Cahors, N.N.) was born in 700 in Europe; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: GZ79-92Q
• Appointments / Titles: 715