According to Ademar of Chabannes, writing 150 years after the events, Emenon was count of Poitou in 838, when King Pippin I of Aquitaine died.
Louis died on 20 June 840, and during the ensuing civil war between his sons, Pippin II seized control of Aquitaine.
In any case, there is no evidence that during this time the city of Poitiers was administered by anyone other than the bishop, who was present on the scene, unlike Bernard or Ranulf.
The Historia inventionis et translationis reliquiarium Sancti Baudelli martyris[a] records that her son had an uncle named Gauzlin who was an abbot before he was a bishop.
He was a son of Count Rorgon I of Maine and Bilichildis (a variant of Belihildis), who were thus most likely the parents of Bernard's wife as well.