 After his Easter court (23 April) in 882, Louis the Younger enfeoffed Hugh with Alsace, but the latter rebelled and Louis chased him in Burgundy.In 883, Hugh murdered Bernarius, Count of Charpeigne, the second husband of Friderada (widow of Engelram, Chamberlain to Charles the Bald), and married her as her third husband.He also murdered his guardian Wipert of Nantes, son of Lampert III of Nantes, as both Bernarius and Wipert opposed his ambitions.