BABENBERG, Poppo Count of Grapfeld Duke of Franconi

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Poppo I was a count in the Grapfeld (Grabfeld), floruit 819 – 839. He w as a "leading man of the Franks" in 838–839, when he and several other n oblemen, including Gebhard, Count of the Lahngau, Adalbert, Count of Me tz, and Otgar, Archbishop of Mainz, who opposed Louis the German's revo lt against Louis the Pious. Poppo was probably the father or grandfather of Henry of Franconia, Pop po (II) of Thuringia, and Egino. He was a forefather of the later Baben bergs.

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1. Henry de Franconia was born about 810 in Babenberg, Oberfranken, Bavaria, Germany; died in Sep 886 in Paris, Île-de-France, France.