Poppo I (died 839–841) was a

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count in the Grapfeld (

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) from 819–839. As a grandson of

Heimrich, Count in the Upper Rheingau Heimrich (Heimo) (740-5 May 795), Count in the Upper Rheingau (Oberrheingau), son of Cancor, Count of Hesbaye, and Angila. Heinrich was also Count of Lahngau, and lay abbot of Mosbach Abbey. Heimrich was a leader in the forces of Charlemagne in h ...

, he was a descendant of the

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count

Cancor Cancor (died 771) was a Frankish count associated with Lorsch Abbey. He was son of a noble lady Williswinda. As her only known husband before she was widowed was named Robert, it has been proposed that Cancor was son to Robert I, Count of Hesbaye, w ...

, and therefore a member of the Frankish

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(Popponids). Poppo was a "leading man of the Franks" in 838-839, when he and several other noblemen, including

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, Count Adalbert of Metz and Archbishop

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opposed

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's revolt against Emperor

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. Poppo was probably the father (or grandfather) of Henry of Franconia, Duke Poppo (II) of Thuringia and Egino.

Sources

*
The Annals of Fulda
'. (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II.)

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