COUNTS  of

TROYES . The succession of the counts of Troyes from the 9th to the loth century can be established in thefollowing manner . Aleran, mentioned in 837, died before the 25th of April 854 . Odo (or Eudes) I. appears as count on the 25th of April 854, and seems to have been stripped of his dignities in January 859 . Raoul, or Rudolph, maternal uncle of King Charles the Bald, was count of Troyes in 863 and 864, and died on the 6th of January 866 . Odo I. seems to have entered again into possession of the countship of Troyes after the death of Raoul, and died himself on the loth of August 871 . Boso, afterwards king of Provence, received the countship in ward after the death of Odo I . A royal diploma was granted at his request, on the 29th of March 877, to the abbey of Montier-la-Celle in Troyes . Odo II., son of Odo I., became count of Troyes on the 25th of October 877 . Robert I., brother of Odo II., was count from 879 . He married Gisla, sister of kings Louis III. and Carloman, and was killed by the Northmen in 886 . Aleaume, nephew of Robert I., is mentioned in 893 .

Richard, son of the viscount of Sens Garnier, is styled count of Troyes in a royal diploma of the loth of December 926 . He was living in 931 . Herbert I., already count of Vermandois, succeeded Richard, and died in 943 . Robert II., one of the five sons of Herbert of Vermandois, is called count of Troyes in an act of the 6th of August 959, and died in August 968 . Herbert II. the Old, younger brother of Robert II., succeeded him and died between 98o and 983 . Herbert III. the Young, nephew and successor of Herbert II., died in 995 . Stephen I., son and successor of Herbert III., was alive in 1019 . His successor was his cousin, Odo II., count of Blois . From the 11th century the counts of Troyes, whose domains increased remark-ably, are commonly designated by the name of counts of Champagne . See H. d'Arbois de Jubainville, Histoire des dues et des comtes de Champagne {1859), vol. i.; F . Lot, Les Derniers Carolingiens, (1891), pp . 370-377; A .

Longnon, Documents relatifs an costae de Champagne et de

Brie (1904), ii . 9, note . (A .