Adalard the Seneshal
Adalard , or Alard, Adalhard, known as the Seneshal, was a noble Carolingian, wire of the count de Paris Leuthard Ier of Fézensac. He is the brother of Girart of Roussillon.
He was seneshal of the Carolingian empire under the reign of Louis the Piles but, at the end of the lifetime of this last, he took the party of the children of the emperor against their father, then that of the wire juniors Louis Germanic the and Charles the Bald person against their elder Lothaire Ier. Besides he encouraged Charles the Bald person to marry Ermentrude of Orleans, girl of his sister Ingeltrude de Fézensac and the count Eudes of Orleans. After the division of the empire in 843, to the Treated of Verdun, it followed Louis the Germanic one in Francie Orientale.
Compromised in 861, at the time of the revolt of Carloman of Bavaria against his father, he flees of Germanic with his parents Udo, Bérenger and the Waldo abbot to take refuge at the court of Charles the Bald person, who gave them the Marche of Neustrie, with the mission of defending it against the Norman ones. But this favor caused the jealousy of the Rorgonides, strongly established in Maine, which revolted and joined with Solomon of Brittany. In order to bring back peace, Charles the Bald person withdrew the walk of Neustrie with Adalard and his cousins to give it to the rorgonide Gauzfrid of Maine.
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