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Personal data Rorico I van Maine 

  • He was born in the year 775.
  • (Geschiedenis) .Source 1
    Rorico van Maine (ca. 790 - 16 juni 839/840), ook Rorgon, was een Frankische hoveling en bestuurder.

    Rorico was hoveling van Karel de Grote en Lodewijk de Vrome. Lodewijk benoemde hem in 819 tot graaf van Rennes. In 824 stichtte Rorico de Abdij van Glanfeuil in het dorp Saint-Maur-sur-Loire (in de gemeente Le Thoureil) die volgens andere bronnen al in de 6e eeuw zou zijn gesticht door de heilige Sint-Maurus. Rorico werd in 832 graaf van Maine en deed in 833 en 839 schenkingen aan de Abdij van Glanfeuil, waar hij ook is begraven.

    Rorico was zoon van Gauzelin en Aldetrude, die alleen bekend zijn uit zijn schenkingsaktes.

    In zijn tijd aan het hof was hij minnaar van Rotrudis, dochter van Karel de Grote en Hildegard. Karel stond niet toe dat zijn dochters met edelen huwden, maar had geen bezwaar tegen hun liefdesrelaties. Rorico en Rotrudis hadden twee kinderen:

    Lodewijk (ca. 800 - 867) abt van Abdij van Saint-Denis en kanselier van Karel de Kale
    mogelijk een dochter

    Later trouwde Rorico met Blichildis, waarvan de ouders onbekend zijn. Zij hadden de volgende kinderen:

    Rorico II (ovl. 866), graaf van Maine
    Gauzfried (ovl. 877), graaf van Maine, markgraaf van Neustrië
    Blichildis (geb ca. 830), in eerste huwelijk getrouwd met Bernard van Poitiers, in tweede huwelijk getrouwd met Ranulf I van Poitiers.
    Gauzlin (834-886), bisschop van Parijs, kanselier van Karel de Kale.
  • (Levens event) .Source 2
    Rorgon I or Rorico(n) I (also Rorgo or Rorich; d. 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.

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    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 Staint-Denis, Saint-Riquier, and Saint-Wandrille,[5] who was also chancellor to his cousin Charles the Bald from 841.
  • He died on March 1, 839, he was 64 years old.
  • A child of Gauzlin I van Maine and Adeltrude van Bourges
  • This information was last updated on April 10, 2013.

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(1) He has/had a relationship with Hrothrudis der Franken.

The relationship startedSource 3


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(2) He is married to Blichildis.

They got married


Child(ren):

  1. Gausfriend van Maine  < 810-878 
  2. Bilchildis van Maine  830-???? 

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  1. http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorico_van_Maine
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorgon_I,_Count_of_Maine
  3. http://members.upc.nl/n.prins53/pietzuiker/pietzuikervoorouders/f5652.html

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