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TROYES. The See also:succession of the counts of Troyes from the 9th to the loth See also:century can be established in thefollowing manner. Aleran, mentioned in 837, died before the 25th of See also:April 854. See also:Odo (or Eudes) I. appears as See also:count on the 25th of April 854, and seems to have been stripped of his dignities in See also:January 859. Raoul, or See also:Rudolph, maternal See also:uncle of See also:King See also:Charles the Bald, was count of Troyes in 863 and 864, and died on the 6th of January 866. Odo I. seems to have entered again into See also:possession of the countship of Troyes after the See also:death of Raoul, and died himself on the loth of See also:August 871. Boso, afterwards king of See also:Provence, received the countship in See also:ward after the death of Odo I. A royal diploma was granted at his See also:request, on the 29th of See also:March 877, to the See also:abbey of Montier-la-See also:Celle in Troyes. Odo II., son of Odo I., became count of Troyes on the 25th of See also:October 877. See also:Robert I., See also:brother of Odo II., was count from 879. He married Gisla, See also:sister of See also:kings See also:Louis III. and See also:Carloman, and was killed by the Northmen in 886. Aleaume, See also:nephew of Robert I., is mentioned in 893.

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Richard, son of the See also:viscount of See also:Sens See also:Garnier, is styled count of Troyes in a royal diploma of the loth of See also:December 926. He was living in 931. See also:Herbert I., already count of See also:Vermandois, succeeded Richard, and died in 943. Robert II., one of the five sons of Herbert of Vermandois, is called count of Troyes in an See also:act of the 6th of August 959, and died in August 968. Herbert II. the Old, younger brother of Robert II., succeeded him and died between 98o and 983. Herbert III. the See also:Young, nephew and successor of Herbert II., died in 995. See also:Stephen I., son and successor of Herbert III., was alive in 1019. His successor was his See also:cousin, Odo II., count of See also:Blois. From the 11th century the counts of Troyes, whose domains increased remark-ably, are commonly designated by the name of counts of See also:Champagne. See H. d'See also:Arbois de Jubainville, Histoire See also:des dues et des comtes de Champagne {1859), vol. i.; F. See also:Lot, See also:Les Derniers Carolingiens, (1891), pp. 370-377; A.

Longnon, Documents relatifs an costae de Champagne et de See also:

Brie (1904), ii. 9, See also:note. (A.

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