Wigerich von Lothringen

• Preferred Name: Wigerich von Lothringen^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Count Palatine Of Lotharingia915 with note: https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wigerich?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Count Of Bidgua0899, 902, 909 with note: https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/wiki/Wigerich?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
  
• Occupation: Evêque de Metz, Compte palatin de Lotharingie 915 Comte de Verdun d'Ardennes Trèves de Moselle Méthingau Bidgau Comte Palatin d'Aix-la-Chapelle915
  
• FSID: LZPK-P7H
  
• Birth: 890 in Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany at LATI: N9.7534 LONG: E0.6393 with note: bisherige daten
  
• Burial: in Hastière, Namur, Walloon, Belgium at LATI: N0.2167 LONG: E0.8167
  
• Death: AFT 19 JAN 916
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Wigeric or Wideric (French: Wigéric or Wéderic) (died before 923) was the count of the Bidgau (pagus Bedensis) and held the rights of a count within the city of Trier. He received also the advocacy of the Abbey of Saint Rumbold at Mechelen from Charles III of France. From 915 or 916, he was the count palatine of Lotharingia. He was the founder of the House of Ardennes.
  
  Medieval historians have been unable to precisely pin down Wigeric's origins or rise to power. He possessed lands in the region of Bitburg, in the middle Moselle valley, in the Gutland, the western Eifel, and the Meuse region.
  
  At the death of Louis the Child, the Lotharingians rejected the suzerainty of Conrad I and elected Charles of France as their king. At the time, the military authority in Lotharingia was assigned to Count Reginar I of Hainaut (died 915), but at his death it fell to Wigeric, who became count palatine, exercising as such the military authority in Lotharingia.
  
  Wigeric founded the monastery of Hastière (French: L'abbaye d'Hastière) now in Hastière-par-delà(fr), of which he also assumed the advocacy.
  
  There is no historical trace of Wigeric after 919: he probably died between 916 and 919, and was buried in the monastery of Hastière.
  
  «b»Family and descendants«/b»
  Wigeric's first wife Eva died, leaving him a widower. He then married Cunigunda, daughter of Ermentrude, granddaughter of Louis II of France, and therefore a descendant of Charlemagne. Their children were:
  
  1.) Frederick (died 978), count of Bar, the duke of Upper Lorraine from 959
  
  2.) Adalberon (died 962), bishop of Metz
  
  Gilbert (died 964), count in the Ardennes
  
  3.) Sigebert (fl. c. 942)
  
  4.) Gozlin (died 942), count of Bidgau, married Uda of Metz, father of:
  
  a.) Godfrey the Prisoner
  
  b.) Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims
  
  5.) Siegfried, count of Luxembourg
  
  6.) Liutgarde wife of Adalbert, count of Metz and Eberhard, count of Nordgau
  
  Wigeric and Cunigunda were the founders of the dynasty of the House of Ardennes. Its three branches'97Ardennes-Verdun, Ardennes-Bar and Ardennes-Luxembourg'97dominated Lorraine for a century and a half. The Ardennes family extended from Laon and Reims to Trier and Cologne, from Metz and Verdun to Liège and Anvers. Its descendants were to appear in the following positions:
  
  Dukes of Upper and Lower Lorraine (959-1046 and 1012-1100 respectively)
  Bishops of Metz (929-1072)
  Bishops of Laon (977-1031)
  Bishops of Reims (969-989)
  Bishops of Verdun (984-988)
  Bishops of Trier (1004-1015)
  
  BIO
  BIO: Count Palatine of Aachen, occ 899-June 919.
  
  ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LUXEMBOURG.htm#Fredericdied1019 as of 3/26/2016
  
  --- . The identity of Cunigonde´s supposed third husband,
  
  === Count of Metz. ===
  Count of Metz.
  
  === Count Palatine of Luxembourg. aka Wiger ===
  Count Palatine of Luxembourg. aka Wigeric of Aachen/Triesgau; Wigerich, Count of Trier and Ardennes.
  
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• m. 909 in Auchen, Monschau, Germany

1. Luitgarde von Luxembourg, b. 910 in Metz, Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire     d. 986 in Alsace, France
2. Gozlin de Verdun, b. ABT 914 in Thionville, Moselle, Lorraine, France     d. 18 DEC 942 in Champagne-et-Fontaine, Dordogne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
3. Sigefried von Luxemburg, b. 15 AUG 922 in Luxemburg, Oldenburg, Niedersachsen, Germany     d. 28 OCT 998 in Luxembourg, Belgium
4. Frédéric de Lorraine I, b. ABT 912 in Bar, Haute-Lor., Fr.     d. 18 MAY 978 in Aachen, Aachener Reich, Holy Roman Empire

1. Title: Geni.com-website ; Personal info on the father of the founder of Luxemburg
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Wigerich-Pfalzgraf-von-Lothringen/6000000011927175372;
   Page: Information seems credible.
   
2. Title: Wikipedia-Wigerich-Count Palatine of Lorraine (German)
   Publication: Name: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigerich;
   
3. Title: FMG: Wigerich (parents unknown)
   Publication: Name: http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIAN%20(LOWER)%20NOBILITY.htm#Wigerichdiedbefore919;
   Note: PARENTS ARE UNKNOWN
   
4. Title: MedLands
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIAN%20(LOWER)%20NOBILITY.htm#Wigerichdiedbefore919;
   
5. Title: Wikipedia-Wigeric of Lotharingia (English)
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigeric_of_Lotharingia;
   
6. Title: Wikipedia-Wigéric de Bidgau (French)
   Publication: Name: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wig%C3%A9ric_de_Bidgau;