Lambert III (830–882) was pretender to the
County of Nantes The counts of Nantes were originally the Frankish rulers of the Nantais under the Carolingians and eventually a capital city of the Duchy of Brittany. Their county served as a march against the Bretons of the Vannetais. Carolingian rulers would s ...
. Lambert was the son of
Lambert II of Nantes, at whose death in 851, the administration of the region fell effectively to the
Dukes of Brittany. After his father's death, Lambert III became a pretender to the County of Nantes. His mother was Tetrata of Lombardy, a daughter of
Pepin of Italy, eldest son of
Charlemagne
Charlemagne ( , ) or Charles the Great ( la, Carolus Magnus; german: Karl der Große; 2 April 747 – 28 January 814), a member of the Carolingian dynasty, was King of the Franks from 768, King of the Lombards from 774, and the first ...
. Lambert III married Rotrude of Italy, a daughter of
Holy Roman Emperor Lothair I. The Emperor was a first cousin of Lambert's mother, as both were grandchildren of Charlemagne. Lambert's and Rotrude's only son was Wipert of Nantes.
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830 births
882 deaths
Counts of Nantes
9th-century people from West Francia
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