Count Orleans was the ruler of the region , including the city of Orleans and its environs. The title was used during the rule of the Merovingians and the Carolingians .
When Hugh Capet became King of the Franks, the Orleans county belonging to him became part of the royal domain . Subsequently, on the basis of the county, the duchy of Orleans was created, which was traditionally given to the second oldest sons of the king of France , until the duke Philip II of Orleans secured him in his posterity. From that time on, the elder sons of the Orleans line of the Bourbon House became the dukes of Orleans.
The Carolingian Age
- ? - 821 : Adrian (c. 760 - 821 ), palatine count of Rhine, son of Herold I de Wintzgau and Emma Alemansky, brother of the wife of Charlemagne .
- 818-828 : Matfried (d. 836).
- 828 - 830 : Ed I (c. 790 - 834 ), son of Adrienne of Orleans and Valdrada de Wormsgau.
- 830-832 : Matfried (d. 836) (second time).
- 832-834 : Ed I (c. 790-834 ) (second time).
- 834-834 : Matfried (d. 836) (third time).
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- Robert Strong ( 815/820 - 866 ), Count of Anjou and Touraine, Secular Abbot Marmutier, Count of Blois and Orleans, possibly the son of Robert (died 834), Count in Wormsgau and Walldrada, sister of Ed Orleans.
- Hugo Abbot (d. 886 ), son of Conrad I of Burgundy , earl of Paris and Auxerre , and probably the brother of the wife of Robert the Strong.
- Ed II ( 860 - 898 ), Count of Paris , Secular Abbot Saint-Germain des Pres, Saint-Amand, Saint-Denis and Marmouth, Count of Anjou and Tours , Count of Blois and Orleans, King of France .
- Hugh Capet ( 956 - 987 ), King of France , son of Hugo the Great .
See also
- Dukes of Orleans