Acfred (died 927) was briefly

Count of Auvergne This is a list of the various rulers of Auvergne. History In the 7th century Auvergne was disputed between the Franks and Aquitanians. It was later conquered by the Carolingians, and was integrated for a time into the kingdom of Aquitaine. The cou ...

and

Duke of Aquitaine The duke of Aquitaine (, , ) was the ruler of the medieval region of Aquitaine (not to be confused with modern-day Aquitaine) under the supremacy of Frankish, English, and later French kings. As successor states of the Visigothic Kingdom ( ...

between 926 and his death, succeeding his brother William II. Acfred was the youngest son of the count

Acfred I of Carcassonne Acfred I (died 906) was the Count of Razès from 837 and Count of Carcassonne from 877. Acfred was the younger son of Oliba I of Carcassonne and part of the Bellonid Dynasty. He inherited Razès on his father's death, while his elder brother Oliba ...

and Adelinda, sister of

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. He was the last direct heir of his house. His title of "duke" only appears in a posthumous charter of 928. Acfred possessed very little land in Auvergne, most of it having been transformed into

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s of the leading men long before. Based on surviving charters, he did not control the

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or the

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, though he held some property in the latter. His other property was scattered throughout the Auvergne and

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.Lewis, 202. He did, however, possess a few comital

castle A castle is a type of fortification, fortified structure built during the Middle Ages predominantly by the nobility or royalty and by Military order (monastic society), military orders. Scholars usually consider a ''castle'' to be the private ...

s. When Acfred drew up a will in 927, he granted away all that remained of the comital

fisc Under the Merovingians and Carolingians, the fisc (from Latin '' fiscus,'' whence we derive "fiscal") applied to the royal demesne which paid taxes, entirely in kind, from which the royal household was meant to be supported, though it rarely was. ...

to his retainers. Though

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called Ebalus Manzer his successor, no contemporary documents evidence Ebalus in Auvergne, though he certainly had a claim to it.Lewis, 181 n12. Ebalus, however, was not the only claimant. Between 940 and 941,

Raymond Pons of Toulouse Raymond Pons (''Regimundus Pontio''; died after 944), who may be numbered Raymond III or Pons I,He has traditionally been called Raymond III, but with the discovery of at least one and perhaps two additional Raymonds, this numerical designation is ...

controlled the region, and, in 955,

William III of Aquitaine William III (913 – 3 April 963), called Towhead (, ) from the colour of his hair, was the "Count of the Duchy of Aquitaine" from 959 and Duke of Aquitaine from 962 to his death. He was also the Count of Poitiers from 935 and Count of Auver ...

invaded and held it.

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References

* Brunterc'h, Jean-Pierre. "La Succession d'Acfred, Duc d'Aquitaine (927–936)." ''Quæstiones medii ævi novæ'' 6 (2001): 195–240. * Lewis, Archibald R.
The Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718–1050
'. University of Texas Press: Austin, 1965. {{DEFAULTSORT:Acfred, Duke Of Aquitaine 927 deaths Year of birth unknown Dukes of Aquitaine Counts of Auvergne 10th-century people from West Francia

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