Poppo of Grapfeld

Poppo of Grapfeld

Poppo I was a count in the Grapfeld (Grabfeld), floruit 819 – 839. He was a "leading man of the Franks" in 838–839, when he and several other noblemen, including Gebhard, Count of the Lahngau, Adalbert, Count of Metz, and Otgar, Archbishop of Mainz, who opposed Louis the German's revolt against Louis the Pious.

Poppo was probably the father or grandfather of Henry of Franconia, Poppo (II) of Thuringia, and Egino. He was a forefather of the later Babenbergs.

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*" [http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/fulda.htm The Annals of Fulda] ". (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II.) Reuter, Timothy (trans.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.


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