Gerhard van de Metzgau I

• Preferred Name: Gerhard van de Metzgau I^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: Gerthard Von Metz
  
• Alternate Name: Gerhard of Metz
  
• Alternate Name: Gerhard Count of Metz I
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: 22 JUN 910 in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany at LATI: N8.3525 LONG: E0.7106
  
• FSID: 9CD1-KW4
  
• Birth: 875 in Metz, Lothringen at LATI: N9.1333 LONG: E0.1667 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerhard_I_of_Metz
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Graf in der Wetterau
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Gerard van de Metzgau (c. 875-22 June 910 ) was Count van Metz who, together with his brother, tried unsuccessfully to acquire power over Lorraine.
  
  Gerard came into conflict with King Zwentibold of Lorraine in 897. He first deprived him of his position but Gerard and Zwentibold reconciled again. The conflict was not resolved, however, and Gerard and his brother Matfried (count of the Eiffel) took the lead of a revolt, and defeated and killed Zwentibold in 900 in a battle at Susteren. Gerard married Zwentibold's widow Oda van Saksen (about 880-after 952), a daughter of Otto I van Saksen, but Gerard and Matfried were unable to establish their authority over Lorraine. In 903 Gebhard from Franconia was appointed Duke of Lorraine. Gerard was in conflict with a Count Koenraad in 906, presumablyKoenraad I van Franken (a nephew of Gebhard) sent by Koenraad the Elder (a brother of Gebhard) with an army to support Gebhard. Gerard was killed in 910 with a Bavarian army.
  
  Gerard was the son of Adelhard van Metz (ca. 850-2 January 890), Count of Metz and layman of Echternach , who was the son of Adalhard de Seneschalk, and of a daughter of Matfried of the Eifelgouw (ca. 820-after September 18 882). Matfried is already mentioned in 843 as count of the Eifelgouw and in 877 he is on a list of nobles who will assist the king of West Francia if he would cross the river Maas.
  
  «b»Gerard and Oda had the following children:«/b»
  
  1.) Wigfried, Archbishop of Cologne (924-953)
  
  2.) Uda van Metz (905-963), married to Gozelo van de Ardennen
  
  3.) unknown daughter
  
  4.) Godfrey van Gulik, Count of Lorraine (-949).
  
  Oda remarried Eberhard of the Upper Lahngouw.
  
  BIO
  BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FRANCONIA.htm#HermannISwabiadied949 as of 7/7/2016
  
  GEBHARD (-killed in battle near Augsburg [22] Jun 910). Regino records the war in 902 between "Adalbertu
  
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  === Biographie ===
  Bezeugt 888, 897 und 906 Graf im Oberen Rheingau, 909 Graf
  in der Wetterau, 903 Herzog in Lothringen : dux regni quod a multis Hlotarii dicitur ( Herzog des Königreichs, das von vielen dasjenige, Lothars genannt wird). 897 eine Salvators weihen.
  
  === !"Our Plafs Roots Are True" A Genealogy ===
  !"Our Plafs Roots Are True" A Genealogy of Kochert and Nieb Families, by Ethel Clift Philips, Published 1983. The information in the book is derived from church records of Rumbach and Family records. !Source is from "Neuhart Nobility", by Dennis Allen Kastens -1997 page 162. 1. He was Count in the Watterau and Duke of Lorraine and Rheingau. He was Edward Probyn James III's 30th GGrandfather
  
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1. Uda , b. 910 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France     d. 7 APR 963 in Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France
2. Godfrey von Metz, b. 905 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France     d. 1 JUN 949

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