{{Short description|Frankish nobleman}} '''Poppo I''' (died 839–841) was a [[Franks|Frankish]] count in the Grapfeld ([[Grabfeld]]) from 819–839. As a grandson of [[Heimrich, Count in the Upper Rheingau]], he was a descendant of the [[Robertians|Robertian]] count [[Cancor]]. He was the founder of the Frankish [[Popponids]] (later more known as the [[House of Babenberg]]).
Poppo was a "leading man of the Franks" in 838-839, when he and several other noblemen, including [[Gebhard, Count of the Lahngau]], Count [[Adalbert of Metz (died 841)|Adalbert of Metz]] and Archbishop [[Odgar of Mainz]] opposed [[Louis the German]]'s revolt against Emperor [[Louis the Pious]].
Poppo was either the father or the grandfather of [[Henry, Margrave of the Franks|Margrave Henry of Franconia]], [[Poppo, Duke of Thuringia|Duke Poppo II of Thuringia]] and [[Egino, Duke of Thuringia|Egino]].
==Sources== *''[https://web.archive.org/web/20070312020323/http://www.medievalsources.co.uk/fulda.htm The Annals of Fulda]''. (Manchester Medieval series, Ninth-Century Histories, Volume II.) [[Reuter, Timothy]] (trans.) Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992.
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