Egino (died 3 August 908) was a count in East Franconia and

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in the late 9th century. He was a Popponid ( Elder House Babenberg), the younger brother of Henry of Franconia and Poppo of Thuringia. All three may have been sons or grandsons of

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. Egino feuded with his brother Poppo in

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in 882 and 883, but the reasons are unknown. In 882, he and the

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had instigated a war with Poppo and the

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and vanquished them. In 883, he was recorded as a co-duke of the Thuringii, and savagely defeated his brother, forcing him to retreat with but a small remnant of his original fighting force. While a

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records Egino's death in 886, he was mentioned in charters as living in 887 and 888. Egino was killed, along with Burchard, Duke of Thuringia, and Rudolf I, Bishop of Würzburg, in battle with the

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.Reuter, ''Germany'', 129.

Sources

Reuter, Timothy Timothy Alan Reuter (25 January 1947 – 14 October 2002), grandson of the former mayor of Berlin Ernst Reuter, was a German-British historian who specialized in the study of medieval Germany, particularly the social, military and ecclesiastical ...

. ''Germany in the Early Middle Ages 800–1056''. New York: Longman, 1991. *Reuter, Timothy (trans.)
The Annals of Fulda
'. (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.

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