{{Short description|French noble}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2023}} {{infobox noble | name = Hugh of Tours | image = | caption = | noble family = Etichonids | father = {{ill|lt=Luitfrid II|Luitfrid II of the Sundgau|fr|Luitfrid II de Sundgau}} | mother = Hiltrude of Wormsgau | spouse = Ava of Morvois | issue = Ermengard <br />Adelaide<br />Liutfrid | birth_date = {{circa|765}} | birth_place = | death_date = 837 | death_place = Italy }} '''Hugh''' (or '''Hugo''') ({{circa|765}} – 837) was the count of Tours and Sens during the reigns of Charlemagne and Louis the Pious, until his disgrace in February 828.
Hugh had many possessions in Alsace, as well as the County of Sens. He also held the convent of {{ill|Abbey of Saint-Julien d'Auxerre|lt=Saint-Julien d'Auxerre|fr|Abbaye Saint-Julien d'Auxerre}}. He appeared in 811 as an envoy or ''ambasciator'' to Constantinople with Haido, Bishop of Basel, and Aio, Duke of Friuli, to renew the Pax Nicephori.{{sfn|Duckett|1962|p=123}} In 821, he allied himself by marriage to the royal family; his daughter Ermengard married Louis' son Lothair. In 824, he took part in an expedition in Brittany and, in 826, he accompanied the Empress Judith to the baptism of Harald Klak in Ingelheim. His other daughter, Adelaide, married Conrad I, Count of Auxerre (died 862).{{sfn|Bouchard|1999|p=340}}{{efn|The ''Miraculis Sancti Germani'' records the marriage of ''Adheleid'' with ''Chuonradus princeps''.}} She was dead by 886, when Walahfrid Strabo included her epitaph in a poem of his.
In 827, Hugh, along with Matfrid of Orléans, was commissioned by Louis to recruit an army with his son Pepin I of Aquitaine and repel the invasion of the ''Marca Hispanica'' by the Moslem general Abu Marwan. Hugh and Matfrid delayed until the threat had passed. For this he was given the nickname ''Timidus'' or '''the Timid'''. Barcelona being the greatest military accomplishment of Louis' career, the Spanish March meant much to him and Hugh and Matfrid found themselves greatly disfavoured at court. They were deposed in February of the next year.
He remained very influential as the father-in-law of Lothair. He joined Matfrid in inciting Lothair to rebellion and had all his lands confiscated in Gaul. He remained highly influential in Italy, where Lothair created him "duke of Locate" (''dux de Locate''). He became a benefactor of the cathedral of Monza. According to the ''Annales Bertiniani'', he and Lambert of Nantes died during an epidemic in Italy in 837.{{sfn|Duckett|1962|p=53}} News of their deaths—and that of Wala of Corbie in an earlier Italian epidemic in the fall of the previous year—greatly distressed Louis the Pious, but the opponents of Lothair interpreted it as divine judgement.{{sfn|Nelson|1991|p=37}}{{sfn|Hummer|2005|p=165}}
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==Sources== *{{cite book |title=The New Cambridge Medieval History: Volume 3, C.900-c.1024 |volume=III |chapter=Burgundy and Provence, 879-1032 |first=Constance Brittain |last=Bouchard |editor-first=Timothy |editor-last=Reuter |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 }} *{{cite book |title=Carolingian Portraits: A Study in the Ninth Century |author-link=Eleanor Shipley Duckett |first=Eleanor Shipley |last=Duckett |publisher=The University of Michigan Press |year=1962 }} *{{cite book|first=Hans J.|last=Hummer|title=Politics and Power in Early Medieval Europe: Alsace and the Frankish Realm, 600–1000|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2005}} *{{cite book|first=Janet L.|last=Nelson|author-link=Janet L. Nelson|title=The Annals of St-Bertin|publisher=Manchester University Press|place=Manchester|year=1991}}
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Category:Nobility of the Carolingian Empire Category:837 deaths Category:Year of birth uncertain Category:Counts of Tours