Raculf
RaculfRaculf witnesses as viscount in a charter of 1×9 November 893 ["Signum Raculfi, vicecomitis." Cart. Cluny, 1: 62 (#53)]. He appears in another charter of 20 June 898 ["... domnus Raculfus ..." ibid., 1: 74-5 (#65)]. He was excommunicated at a council at Chalon in 915 for usurping the rights of the church [Mansi, 18: 325].
Date of birth: Unknown.
Place of birth: Unknown.
Date of death: After 915.
Place of
death: Unknown.
Father: Unknown.
Mother: Unknown.
Spouse: Unknown.
Children:
Tolosane/Etolane/Attalane, m. Aubry
I, count of Mâcon.
["Hec sunt nomina Comitum
Matisconensium. Primus, Albericus Narbonensis qui, accipiens
filiam Raculfi vice-comitis post mortem domini Bernonis
Matiscensis episcopi, comitem se fecit;
..." Cart. Mâcon, 6 (#7)]
Probable relative: Liétaud, fl. 879×887-905, viscount
or count of Mâcon.
Liétaud appears as a missus of
count Guillaume of Auvergne and Mâcon in 879×887 ["Leotaldus
missus Willelmi comitis" Cart. Mâcon, 105 (#152)]. At
Mâcon on 2 November 905, Liétaud signed a donation to Cluny as
count [Cart. Cluny, 1: 101 (#90)]. Since Raculf's grandson who
eventually became count of Mâcon was also named Liétaud, and
the younger Liétaud's father came from Narbonne, it is very
likely that the younger Liétaud was named after this Liétaud
because of some relationship via Raculf and his daughter.
Conjectured daughter:
Ingeltrude, m. Robert,
d. ca. 960, count of Dijon.
The basis of this conjecture is that Lambert (evidently
the son of Robert and Ingeltrude of that name), is called a consanguineus
in a charter of Liétaud, son of Aubri and Tolosane ["ego
Leotaldus et uxor mea Berta, ..., quem mihi Lanbertus,
consanguineus meus, dedit, et soror mea Attala michi postea
reddidit, ...", February 944, Cart. Cluny, 1: 609-610
(#655); see Poupardin (1907), 234, 419, n. 3].
Cart. Cluny = A. Bernard & A. Bruel, Recueil des chartes de l'abbaye de Cluny, 6 vols., (Paris, 1876-1903).
Cart. Mâcon = M.-C. Ragut, ed., Cartulaire de Saint-Vincent de Mâcon (Mâcon, 1864).
Mansi = Mansi, Sacrorum Conciliorum.
Poupardin (1907) = René Poupardin, Le royaume de Bourgogne (888-1038) - Étude sur les origines du royaume d'Arles (Paris, 1907).
Compiled by Stewart Baldwin
First uploaded 24 April 2008.