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Acfred
(died 927) was briefly
Count of Auvergne
and
Duke of Aquitaine
between 926 and his death, succeeding his brother
William II
. Acfred was the youngest son of the count
Acfred I of Carcassonne
and Adelinda, sister of
William I of Aquitaine
. He was the last direct heir of his house.
[1]
His title of "duke" only appears in a posthumous charter of 928.
[2]
Acfred possessed very little land in Auvergne, most of it having been transformed into
allods
of the leading men long before. Based on surviving charters, he did not control the
Lyonnais
or the
Velay
, though he held some property in the latter.
[3]
His other property was scattered throughout the Auvergne and
Gevaudan
.
[4]
He did, however, possess a few comital
castles
.
[5]
When Acfred drew up a will in 927, he granted away all that remained of the comital
fisc
to his retainers.
[6]
Though
Adhemar of Chabannes
called
Ebalus Manzer
his successor, no contemporary documents evidence Ebalus in Auvergne, though he certainly had a claim to it.
[7]
Ebalus, however, was not the only claimant. Between 940 and 941,
Raymond Pons of Toulouse
controlled the region, and, in 955,
William III of Aquitaine
invaded and held it.
[4]
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Notes
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Lewis, 181.
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Lewis, 201 n33.
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Lewis, 201.
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a
b
Lewis, 202.
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Lewis, 230.
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Lewis, 212.
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Lewis, 181 n12.
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