Turpio
Turpio (or Turpion; died 4 October 863)
In 838, when the Emperor
Whenever Turpio's tenure began, its main feature was a series of Viking raids, culminating in the great raid of 862–63, in which they allied with Pepin, besieged
Count Turpio—a most strong knight and the best defender, a magnificent man, a lover of the clergy, a builder of churches and one who restored the poor—joined the Northmen in battle, and killed Mauro, only then to be killed; and the whole region was captured and burned.[1]
Turpio was succeeded by his brother Emeno, who is recorded as Count of Angoulême at the time of his death in 866.[9]
Notes
- ^ a b Annales Engolismenses, MGH SS, 16:486 ("863. 4. Non. Oct. Turpio comis, miles fortissimus defensorque optimus, vir magnificus, amator clericorum, ecclesiarum edificator pauperumque recreator, cum Normannis congreditur, et occiso Mauro, ab illo occiditur, et tota illa regio a Normannis capitur et succenditur").
- ^ Adhemar, Historiarum Libri III, Book III, MGH SS, 4:120, wrote that "Turpionem vero comitem constituit Egolisme. . . Emeno quoque ad Turpionem fratrem suum sese contulit" (Turpio [was] established as count of Angoulême. . . Emeno also joined his brother Turpio).
- ^ Léonce Auzias, "L'origine carolingienne des ducs féodaux d'Aquitaine et des rois capétiens", Revue Historique, 173, 1 (1934), 94.
- ^ Cf. MGH Epp., 6:33.
- (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1965), 97.
- ^ J. L. Nelson, The Annals of St-Bertin (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1991), 58 n. 9.
- ^ Lewis, Southern French and Catalan Society, 101.
- ^ Chronicon Aquitanicum, MGH SS, 2:253 ("Turpio Engolismensium comes cum Northmannis congreditur, et occidens eorum regem nomine Maurum, ab eo ipse occiditur").
- ^ The Chronicon Aquitanicum calls him "Emeno Turpionis frater, Engolismae comes".