Erenfried II (died ) was a

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n nobleman, from the area of

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in what is now Germany. According to one proposal, he was a son of Eberhard I, Count of Bonngau and Zülpichgau. He could otherwise be the same as

Ehrenfrid, son of Ricfrid Iremfrid (or Ehrenfried etc. a name which could be shortened to Immo, Emmo, Immed etc.) was a 10th-century noble born to a family which had its power base in the Rhine–Meuse delta region, near the modern border of the Netherlands and Germany. He ...

. He was Count in the Keldachgau, Count in the Zülpichgau (942), in the Bonngau (945), and in Hubbelrath (950). Possibly he was also the count of this name in the Hattuariergau (947) and in the neighbouring Tubalgau (Duffelgau) (948). In this period there was also count of this name in the Belgian

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, who was possibly also

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of Stavelot Abbey. It is proposed that he married Richwara (died 10 July 963) and had issue: * Hermann I,

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. Although there is record of Hermann's mother being Richwara, the proposal concerning who his father was is likely but not certain. * Erenfried, Abbot of Gorze (same as Poppo II Bishop of

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(961-983)?) ( fl. 999).

References

# Instituts für Geschichtsforschung. XII. Erg.-Band. (Innsbruck, 1933) pp. 1–91. # Gerstner, Ruth, 'Die Geschichte der lothringischen Pfalzgrafschaft (von den Anfängen bis zur Ausbildung des Kurterritoriums Pfalz)', Rheinisches Archiv 40 (Bonn, 1941) # Friedrich Wilhelm Oedinger (arrangement): The Regests of the Archbishops of Cologne I (313-1099), Bonn 1954-1960 # Droege, G., 'Pfalzgrafschaft, Grafschaften und allodiale Herrschaften zwischen Maas und Rhein in salisch-staufischer Zeit’, Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 26 (1961), pp. 1–21. # Wisplinghoff, E., 'Zur Reihenfolge der lothringischen Pfalzgrafen am Ende des 11. Jahrhunderts’, in Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 28 (1963) pp. 290–293. # Steinbach, F., ‘Die Ezzonen. Ein Versuch territorialpolitischen Zusammenschlusses der fränkischen Rheinlande’, in Collectanea Franz Steinbach. Aufsätze und Abhandlungen zur Verfassungs-, Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte, geschichtlichen Landeskunde und Kulturraumforschung, ed. F. Petri & G. Droege (Bonn, 1967) pp. 64–81. # Lewald, Ursula, 'Die Ezzonen. Das Schicksal eines rheinischen Fürstengeschlechts', in Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter 43 (1979) pp. 120–168 # Stefan Weinfurter / Odilo Engels : Series Episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae Occidentalis V.1, Stuttgart 1984 # Reuter, Timothy, 'Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056', New York: Longman, 1991. # Bernhardt, John W. (2002). Itinerant Kingshiop & Royal Monasteries in Early Medieval Germany, c.936-1075. Cambridge University Press. #

Links

* http://www.manfred-hiebl.de/genealogie-mittelalter/ezzonen_pfalzgrafen_bei_rhein/erenfried_2_graf_im_keldachgau_+_um_969.html *

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