Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: M1TN-4YB

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 9CD1-KW4

Notes:

"Gerhard I of Metz was count of Metz. He was the son of Adalhard, count of Metz, himself son of Adalard the Seneschal."

"After 13 August 900, Gerhard married Oda, daughter of Otto I, Duke of Saxony, and had: Wigfried, Oda, Godfrey, and a daugther (name unknown)."

"Gerhard was killed in a battle against the Bavarian army on 22 June 910."

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Gerhard married of Saxony, Oda after 13 Aug 900. Oda (daughter of of Saxony, Otto I and von Babenberg, Hedwiga) was born in 877; died in 952. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• FSID: GSX5-T31

Notes:

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oda_of_Metz --

Oda of Metz was a German noblewoman. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF Gerhard I of Metz (9CD1-KW4). HER MOTHER, ODA OF SAXONY (LB2S-623), was a daughter of Otto I Duke of Saxony and thus a member of the Liudolfings.

In 930, Oda married Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau, who gained fame as military commander for his brother, Adalberon I of Metz. Because she outlived her husband by twenty years, she was head of the household and ran the estate and lands until their children had reached adulthood.

They had the following children:

~ Reginar, count of Bastogne (d. 18 Apr 963)
~ Henry (d. 6 Sep 1000)
~ Godfrey (935/940 – 3 Sep 995/1002), count of Verdun[1]
~ Adalberon (935/940 – 23 Jan 989), archbishop of Reims 969-989

-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oda_of_Metz --

Oda married de Lothiers, Count Gozelon I in 930 in France. Gozelon (son of de Lorraine, Wigerich and de France, Countess Cunigunda) was born in 914 in Thionville, Moselle, Lorraine, France; died on 18 Dec 943 in Champagne, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• House: House of Ardennes-Verdun
• Nickname: The Captive
• FSID: 94HZ-CG3
• Appointments / Titles: 959; Count of Bidgau and Methingau
• Appointments / Titles: Between 963 and 1005, Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France; Count of Verdun
• Military: 969, Antwerpen, Antwerpen, Belgium; Antwerp and Ename; Margraviate
• Appointments / Titles: 974, Mons, Hainaut, Belgium; Count

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Godfrey I, Count of Verdun
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Godfrey I, Count of Verdun
Died 1002
Noble family House of Ardennes-Verdun
Spouse(s) Matilda Billung of Saxony
Father Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau
Mother Oda of Metz
Godfrey I (died 1002), called the Prisoner or the Captive[1] (le Captif), sometimes the Old (le Vieux), was the count of Bidgau and Methingau from 959 and the sovereign count of Verdun [1][2] 963 to his death. In 969, he obtained the Margraviate of Antwerp and Ename. Between 974 and 998, he was also the sovereign count of Hainault and Mons. He was the son of Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau, and Oda of Metz.[3] He was the brother of Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims, who crowned Hugh Capet the king of France.

He was the founder of the House of Ardennes-Verdun, a cadet branch of the House of Ardennes. He was always loyal to the Ottonians, whom he was related through his maternal grandmother.

Contents
1 Life
2 Family
3 Notes
4 References
Life
He is styled as Count by the grace of God of [2] in 963 and already count of Bidgau and Methingau through inheritance since 959. In 974, he became count of Mons, and Hainault jointly with Arnold, Count of Valenciennes, after the fall of Reginar IV. Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, was a supporter of Reginar and defeated Godfrey and Arnold at Mons in 976, where the former was captured.

After his release, he was at the side of the Emperor Otto II fighting Lothair of France at Verdun in 985, but he was again taken captive, along with his son Frederick, and held several years.[4][5] He was released in 987 by Hugh Capet, whose political ally was Adalberon, Godfrey's brother,[6] having crowned Hugh and Godfrey being an enemy of Charles of Lower Lorraine, Hugh's Carolingian rival.[6]

In 989, he was made prisoner a third time by Herbert III of Vermandois. He was liberated before 995, when he appears at the synod of Mousson. In 998, he lost his Hainault portion (the county of Mons) to Reginar IV.

Family
In 963, he married Matilda, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony, of the Billung family, a widow of Baldwin III of Flanders.[7] He had the following issue:

Frederick (d. 1022), count of Verdun[8]
Godfrey (d. 1023), duke of Lower Lorraine (1012–1023)[8]
Adalberon (d. 988), bishop of Verdun (984–988)[9]
Herman of Ename (d. 1024), count of Brabant (retired as a monk in the abbey of Verdun abt. 1022)[8]
Gothelo (d. 1044), margrave of Antwerp, duke of Lower (1023–1044) and later also Upper (1033–1044) Lorraine
Ermengarde (d. 1042), married Otto of Hammerstein, count in the Wettergau
Ermentrude, married Arnold de Rumigny (d. 1010), lord of Florennes
Adela, married Count Godizo of Aspelt. Their daughter Irmgard married Berthold von Walbeck, son of Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark.

Family/Spouse: von Sachsen, Mathilde Billung. Mathilde (daughter of Billung, Hermann and von Sachsen, Oda) was born in 937 in Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Germany; died on 25 May 1008 in Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands; was buried after 25 May 1008 in Abbey of Saint Pierre-Du-Mont Blandin, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]