Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: LHTH-XJT

Notes:

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermentrude_(fille_de_Louis_le_B%C3%A8gue)

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

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Countess of Lotharingia
• FSID: G8K2-QK3

Notes:

"Cunigunda WAS THE DAUGHTER OF ERMENTRUDE of France, [who was the daughter] of Louis the Stammerer. THE IDENTITY OF HER FATHER IS UNKNOWN."

"To gain greater affinity with the nobles of Lotharingia, King Charles III arranged the marriage of Cunigunda in 909 with the powerful Wigeric of Lotharingia."

"Their children were:
- Frederick I
- Adalberon I
- Gilbert
- Sigebert
- Liutgarde
- Gozlin
- Siegfried"

"Around 922, she married Ricwin, Count of Verdun."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunigunda_of_France

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Cunigunda married de Lorraine, Wigerich in 909. Wigerich was born in 870; died in 919; was buried in 919 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: G8K2-9TL

Family/Spouse: of Nordgau, Eberhard IV. Eberhard (son of of Nordgau, Hughes V and de Ferrdis, Hildegard) was born in 918; died in DECEASED. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Count of Ardennes
• Appointments / Titles: Count of Lorrain
• FSID: GSFP-764

Gozelon married of Metz, Oda in 930 in France. Oda (daughter of of Metz, Gerhard I and of Saxony, Oda) was born in 911 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France; was christened in Alsace, Lorraine, France; died on 7 Apr 963 in France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Count of Ardennes
• FSID: LZ9M-HWG

Notes:

"Sigfried (or Siegfried) was count of the Ardennes and the first person to rule Luxembourg. He was an advocate of the abbeys of St. Maximin in Trier and Saint Willibrord in Echternach. He MAY have been the son of Count Palatine Wigeric of Lotharingia and Cunigunda. He was the founder of the House of Luxembourg, a branch of the House of Ardennes."

"In the mid-10th century, Siegfried acquired the rocky promontory known as Lucilinburhuc (Luxembourg) and its immediate surrounding area, as well as usage rights for the river from the Abbey of Saint-Maximin in Trier; this was in exchange for land he owned near Feulen."

"Around 950, he married Hedwig of Nordgau (937–992), daughter of Eberhard IV of Nordgau. They had the following issue:
- Henry I of Luxembourg
- Siegfried
- Frederick I
- Dietrich II
- Adalberon
- Gislebert
- Cunigunda
- Eve
- Ermentrude
- Luitgarde
- a daughter [that married Thietmar]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigfried,_Count_of_the_Ardennes

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Siegfried married of Nordgau, Hedwig in 950. Hedwig (daughter of of Nordgau, Eberhard IV and de Lorraine, Lutgard) was born in 922; died in 993. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 9M85-YGM

Notes:

PARENTS ARE UNKNOWN:
http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LUXEMBOURG.htm#_ftnref31
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedwig_of_Nordgau

"Hedwig of Nordgau was the wife of Siegfried of Luxembourg, first count of Luxembourg and founder of the country. They were married c. 950. She was of Saxon origin but her parentage is not known for sure. [...]"

Hedwig of Nordgau (c. 922 – after 993) was the wife of Siegfried of Luxembourg, first count of Luxembourg and founder of the country. They were married c. 950.[1] She was of Saxon origin but her parentage is not known for certain. Some sources claim that she was connected to the family of Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor.[2] Described as "saintly" herself, Hedwig of Nordgau was the mother of Saint Cunigunde of Luxembourg, the seventh of eleven children from her marriage to Siegfried.[3]

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Hedwig married of Luxemburg, Siegfried I in 950. Siegfried (son of de Lorraine, Wigerich and de France, Countess Cunigunda) was born in 922 in Herzogtum Lauenburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; died on 28 Oct 998 in Luxembourg. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• 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

Notes:

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• FSID: 945D-J9Y
• Death: 14 May 1005, Egmond-Binnen, Egmond, Noord-Holland, Netherlands

Notes:

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LUXEMBOURG.htm#Liutgarddiedafter1005

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/HOLLAND.htm#Arnulfdied993

Liutgard married of Holland, Arnulf in May 980. Arnulf (son of of Friesland, Dietrich II and van Vlaanderen, Hildegard) was born in 952; died on 18 Sep 993 in Winkel, Ammerland, Niedersachsen, Germany; was buried after 18 Sep 993 in Egmond-Binnen, Egmond, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]