Amalvinus, Amauvin, or Amauguin was the Count of Bordeaux

Count of Bordeaux

The Count of Bordeaux or comes Burdagalensis was the ruler of the city of Bordeaux and its environs in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods. The names of the counts are scarcely known until the ninth century, when they start to take on a larger role because of their strategic importance in the...

 in the late ninth and early tenth century. He is only recorded on two occasions in history.

At the Council of Bourges

Council of Bourges

The Council of Bourges was a Catholic council convened in November 1225 in Bourges, France; it was the second largest church assembly held in the West up to that time, exceeded in the numbers of prelates that attended only by the Fourth Lateran Council...

 in August 887

887

Year 887 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* The city of Toledo rises against the Umayyad leader....

, he appeared as count of Bordeaux along with William I of Auvergne

William I of Aquitaine

William I , called the Pious, was the Count of Auvergne from 886 and Duke of Aquitaine from 893, succeeding the Poitevin ruler Ebalus Manser. He made numerous monastic foundations, most important among them the foundation of Cluny Abbey on 11 September 910.William was the son of Bernard II of...

, Odo of Toulouse

Odo of Toulouse

Odo was the Count of Toulouse from 872 to 918 or 919, when he died.He was a son of Raymond I of Toulouse and Bertha or of Bernard II of Toulouse....

, Sancho III of Gascony, and Archbishop Frotaire of Bordeaux. He was clearly one of the leading personages in Aquitaine

Aquitaine

Aquitaine , archaic Guyenne/Guienne , is one of the 27 regions of France, in the south-western part of metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. It comprises the 5 departments of Dordogne, :Lot et Garonne, :Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes...

 at the time.

He was a friend of Alfonso III of Asturias, rex Hispaniae, who calls him "duke" in a letter to the canons of Saint Martin of Tours. The canons had offered the king a golden and jewelled crown and the king readily consented to buy it. His ships and envoys landed in Bordeaux in May 906

906

Year 906 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Battle of Fritzlar: The Conradines defeat the Babenberg counts to establish themselves as dukes of Franconia. Conrad the Elder is killed in the battle...

to receive the crown which the canons had entrusted to Amalvinus.