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Vader: Bernard II dit le Poitevin de Poitiers
Moeder: Bichilde du Maine

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• Overleden: op 31 oktober 900

Neef van Hugo, graaf van Bourges.
A more difficult question is: when did Hugo II succeed Hugo I? We know that Count Hugo son of widow Rothaus (= Rotilde dau of Charles Bold) was alive in 900 (Werner KdG, IV, 426-8). A Hugo son of Roger signs charters of Hugh the Great for St.Martin de Tours 929 & 931: he is assumed to be the same as the Count Hugo of 900. This is acceptable as Hugo would have been very young in 900 (Rotilde was born 870/7), and may have been count in name only: a count Gauslin appears 905-14, who may have been count of Maine in this period. Roger is thus assumed to be the husband of Rothaus/Rotilde, and the same as the count Rodgar, the enemy of the Bp of Le Mans in 897, who excommunicated him, and we are told Rodgar died soon after.
So you can see that the ES may be wrong in assigning Hugo I 900-14, and Hugo II 931-76.
Incidentally this Rodgar is sometimes seen as the count Rodgar, _nepos_ of another Count Hugo, who is mentioned by Abbo de St.Germain- des-Pres in his Poem on the Siege of Paris by the Vikings. This Hugo was killed fighting William the Pious in c.892. Sometimes he is referred to as Count of Bourges and as the ancestor of the cts of Maine: this is why there exists an alternate theory - the 'Bourges descent' we better call it. Some French historians, even good ones, still adhere to it, eg M.Bur in his la formation de Champagne etc).
Another Hugo Ct of Maine appears as the ally of Alan II at the battle of Trans in 939. Werner thinks he was Hugo I and died sometime before 955.
Hugo II appears in 955 up to 976: he had died by 992. Hugo II is assumed to be the son of Hugo I: I don't think any source tells us for certain - the Acts are not much help: they seem to omit Hugo I/II altogether and say that the first Ct of Maine was Hugo son of David (!) father of Herbert. As you will see the Cts of Maine in the 10th century are notable for their longevity: it is possible that due to the lack of sources, historians (eg Werner) may have conflated 2 separate individuals.
> However many Hughs were Counts of Maine, can anyone supply the identity of any of their wives? Stuart shows none for any of his three Hughs.
I don't think any source mentions them, though I suspect that Hugo II probably married an Angevin, perhaps a dau of Fulk II, as he had a son Fulk who appears 967-92."

897 Graf v.Maine, trat gegen Gauzlin v.Maine auf

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