Conrad of Argengau Comte d'Auxerre1 [5745] 24
- Marriage: Aelis (Adelaide) of Tours [5422]
- Died: Aft 862
 Other names for Conrad were Conrad I of Altdorf and Conrad, Comte d'Auxerre.
General Notes:
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Conrad I the Elder was the count of several counties, most notably the Aargau </wiki/Aargau> and Auxerre </wiki/Count_of_Auxerre>, around Lake Constance </wiki/Lake_Constance>, as well as Paris </wiki/Count_of_Paris> from 859 to 864. He was also the lay abbot </wiki/Lay_abbot> of Saint-Germaine in Auxerre .
He was one of the early Welfs , a member of the Bavarian branch, and his sister Judith was the second wife of Louis the Pious . In 858, he and his family \emdash his wife Adelaide and his sons Hugh and Conrad the Younger \emdash abandoned their sovereign Louis the German and went over to Charles the Bald , Judith's son. They were generously rewarded and Conrad was appointed to many countships. Louis the German confiscated his Bavarian fiefs and lands.
Conrad's father was Welf .
Sources
The Annals of Fulda <http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/fulda.htm>. (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II.) Reuter, Timothy (trans.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.
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John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 125. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World
Noted events in his life were:
• Acceded, 859.
Conrad married Aelis (Adelaide) of Tours [5422] [MRIN: 1714], daughter of Hugh of Tours Count of Orleans & Tours [5427] and Ava (Bava) of Paris. Countess of Tours [5424]. (Aelis (Adelaide) of Tours [5422] was born about 819 in Tours, Indre-et-loire, France and died about 866.)
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