The Hattonids were an important

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noble family in the first half of the 9th century, during the reigns of the

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kings

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and

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. They lost their position under

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. They were patronised by the emperors and were enfeoffed with

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s on imperial estates. They attended empire-wide councils and were given military commands on the borders to defend the empire from

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and

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. Hailing from

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and

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, where they had many lands and ''

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'', the Hattonids were appointed to

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s and

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and the central

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from an early date. One of their family, Banzleib, was both

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in 832 and, by 838, ''comes et Saxoniae patriae marchio'' ("count and margrave of the Saxon fatherland") under Louis the Pious. The Hattonids more or less controlled Saxony in the last years of Louis the Pious' reign. The Hattonids were staunch supporters of Louis the Pious and the unity of the Frankish Empire. After Louis's death in 840, Banzleib and his brothers, Adalbert, Count of Metz, and Hatto, Count of Nassau, supported Lothair in the subsequent civil war which arose between Louis's sons and opposed

and the creation of an

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. On 14 December 840 at Rösbeck Louis dispossessed Banzleib of his benefices and public offices and granted them to

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, Abbot of

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. In the

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(13 May 841), Adalbert, Count of Metz and possibly also Banzleib fell. Their brother Hatto lost his county of

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, too, but he maintained his possessions in Alemannia until at least 857.

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) ## Banzleib, 832

, 838 Count and Margrave in Saxony ## Adalbert (d. 841), 825 attested,

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Austrasiorum, fell in the Battle of Wörnitz ## ? daughter, married to Poppo I., Count in the GrabfeldJackman, S. 64/65

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