Godfrey de Verdun I

• Preferred Name: Godfrey de Verdun I^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}
  
• Alternate Name: Godfrey de Verdun I
  
• Alternate Name: Godefroy Count of Ardenne
  
• Alternate Name: Godfried van Lotharingen
  
• Alternate Name: Godfrey Count of Verdun I
  
• Gender: M
  
• Christening: 935 in Lorraine, France at LATI: N8.7398 LONG: E0.1759
  
• Fact: with note: Description: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130412583/godfrey_i-of_verdun
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Count of Lorraine
  
• Title (Nobility): BET 973 AND 995 with note: Description: Count of Hainaut
  
• FSID: 94HZ-CG3
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Margrave of Antwerpen
  
• Alt. Birth: ABT 932 in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France at LATI: N9.25 LONG: E0.3333
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Mark of Eenham
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Count of Bidgau
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Count of Verdun
  
• Nickname:
  
• Birth: 935 in Verdun, Lorraine, France at LATI: N9.25 LONG: E0.3333 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Death: 9 APR 1002 in Tillières-sur-Avre, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France at LATI: N8.7581 LONG: E0.0575
  
• Title (Nobility): with note: Description: Count of Methingau
  
• Title (Nobility): BET 963 AND 1002 with note: Description: Duke of Verdun
  
• Burial: 10 SEP 1005 in Ardennes, Champagne-Ardenne, France at LATI: N9.6667 LONG: E0.6667
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Godfrey I (died 1002), called the Prisoner or the Captive (le Captif), sometimes the Old (le Vieux), was the count of Bidgau and Methingau from 959 and the count of Verdun from 963 to his death. In 969, he obtained the Margraviate of Antwerp and Ename. Between 974 and 998, he was also the count of Hainault and Mons.He was the son of Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau, and Oda of Metz. 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 Limburg or 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.
  
  He appears as the new count of Verdun in 963, though 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. He was released in 987 by Hugh Capet, whose political ally Godfrey's family was: Adalberon, Godfrey's brother, having crowned Hugh and Godfrey being an enemy of Charles of Lower Lorraine, Hugh's Carolingian rival.
  
  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.
  
  In 963, he married Matilda, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony, of the Billung family, a widow of Baldwin III of Flanders. He had the following issue:
  1 Frederick (d. 1022), count of Verdun
  2 Godfrey (d. 1023), count of Verdun and duke of Lower Lorraine (1012-1023)
  3 Adalberon (d. 988), bishop of Verdun (984-988)
  4 Herman of Ename (d. 1024), count of Brabant (retired as a monk in the abbey of Verdun abt. 1022)
  5 Gothelo (d. 1044), margrave of Antwerp, duke of Lower (1023-1044) and later also Upper (1033-1044) Lorraine Bertram de Verdun, grand-uncle of the Bertram I who went to England where he held the manor of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire.
  6 Ermengarde (d. 1042), married Otto of Hammerstein, count in the Wettergau
  7 Ermentrude, married Arnold de Rumigny (d. 1010), lord of Florennes
  8 Adela, married Count Godizo of Aspelt. Their daughter Irmgard married Berthold von Walbeck, son of Lothair I, Margrave of the Nordmark.
  
  BIO
  BIO: Duke of Brabant, 1139; Count of Louvain.
  
  ** from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRABANT,%20LOUVAIN.htm#GodefroiVIILowLothdied1190A as of 6/12/2016
  
  GODEFROI de Louvain (-[11 Nov/31 Dec] 1142,
  
  Functies
  Comte en Bidgau et Methingau Comte de Hainaut (973) Comte de Verdun (963) Marquis d'Eenham (979)
  
  === r.GODFREY II, d. 1143, Count of Louvain; ===
  r.GODFREY II, d. 1143, Count of Louvain; m. 1136, Luitgarde of Sultebach, dau. of Berenger I, Count of Sultebach. ["60 Colonists" line 155-24.]
  
  === !Brown book 5, P C 164 & 216. ===
  !Brown book 5, P C 164 & 216.
  
  === ! Europaische Stammtafeln neue folge vol ===
  ! Europaische Stammtafeln neue folge vol.1 tafel 95;
  
  === !Name,parents,Bd,pla,Titles,Dd,Bap,End-T ===
  !Name,parents,Bd,pla,Titles,Dd,Bap,End-TIB FHL 884548 Bd also listed as 1105,1119;Bpla as Brabant,Neth;Brabant,Baeil;Alsace-Lorraine, France;Title as Duke of Brabant,Count of Louvaine
  
  === !"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. 1. He was Duke of Brabrant and 1st Cousin 26 generations removed of Edward Probyn James III.
  
  === #Générale# Duc de Basse-Lorraine. ===
  #Générale# Duc de Basse-Lorraine.
  
  === Weis. 155-24. Godfrey II was Count of ===
  Weis. 155-24. Godfrey II was Count of Louvain.
  
  === Sources: RC 68, 120; A. Roots 155; Kraen ===
  Sources: RC 68, 120; A. Roots 155; Kraentzler 1077, 1081. Roots: Godfrey II, Count of Louvain. Died 1143. RC: Godfrey II, Duke of Brabant and of Lower Lorraine, Count ofLouvain. Born about 1108, died 1142. K: Godfrey II, Duke de Brabant. Born 1105, married 1139, died 11 Nov.to 31 Dec. 1142.
  
  === BYU #942.04 C837 ===
  BYU #942.04 C837
  
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  [[Category:EuroAristo_-_Profiles_that_need_work]]
  
  {{Euro Aristo 742-1499}}
  
  ==Biography==He was the oldest son. He succeeded his father in 1139. Shortly before he had married Lutgart von Sulzbach, the sister in law of king Conrad III. Relatively little is known of him, as he died in 1142, leaving behind only a son a less then a year old.
  
  == Occupation ==
  Count of Louvain; Duke of Lower Lorraine; Margrave of Antwerp
  
  === Sources ===
  
  
  === ! ! BAPTIZED; ENDOWED; SEALED TO PARENTS ===
  ! ! BAPTIZED; ENDOWED; SEALED TO PARENTS: IGI 1994 Edition, Film # 1760889. ! SEALED TO SPOUSE: {Luitgarde} IGI 1994 Edition, Film # 1760977. ! RELATIONSHIP: Patron, H. Reed Black, is 24th G G Son.
  
  === Hertog van Neder-Lotharingen. ===
  Hertog van Neder-Lotharingen.
  
  === My PAF Notes ===
  from thepeerage.com, 2/2009:
  Godefroi II de Louvain, Duc de Basse-Lorraine
  M, #40325, d. 1142
  Godefroi II de Louvain, Duc de Basse-Lorraine|d. 1142|p4033.htm#i40325|Godefroi I de Louvain, Duc de Basse-Lorraine|b. c 1074\nd. 25 Jan 1140|p10251.htm#i102501|Clementia de Bourgogne|b. b 1111|p4033.htm#i40323|Henri I., Comte de Louvain|b. 1021\nd. a 1075|p395.htm#i3941|Adele de Bettau|b. c 1023\nd. a 1086|p395.htm#i3942|Guillaume de Bourgogne, Comte de Bourgogne|b. b 1096|p4033.htm#i40324||||
  Last Edited=10 May 2003
  Godefroi II de Louvain, Duc de Basse-Lorraine was the son of Godefroi I de Louvain, Duc de Basse-Lorraine and Clementia de Bourgogne. He married Lutgardis von Sulzbach, daughter of Berenger Graf von Sulzbach, after 1138. He died in 1142.
  Godefroi II de Louvain, Duc de Basse-Lorraine gained the title of Duc de Basse-Lorraine.
  Child of Godefroi II de Louvain, Duc de Basse-Lorraine and Lutgardis von Sulzbach
  Godefroi III de Louvain, Duc de Basse-Lorraine + d. 1190
  
  === Ref: Weis Ancestral Roots 155-24. ===
  Ref: Weis Ancestral Roots 155-24.
  
  === SOURCE: Edmundson's Baronage 3:269 TITLE ===
  SOURCE: Edmundson's Baronage 3:269 TITLE: Duke of Lorraine From the database of PJ Autry:(pjautry@aol.com) Check primaryrecords.
  
  === !Brown book 5, P C 664. Duke of Lower Lo ===
  !Brown book 5, P C 664. Duke of Lower Lothringen, 1139 to death in 1143. Based on Alstrom's Royal Lineages.
  
  === !SOURCE: FAMILY GROUP SHEET SUBMITTED B ===
  !SOURCE: FAMILY GROUP SHEET SUBMITTED BY FRANS LATOUR !SOURCE: ANCESTRAL FILE VERSION 4.15
  
  === !Ancestral Roots, Line 155-24. !FTM Vol ===
  !Ancestral Roots, Line 155-24. !FTM Vol 11, tree #4329.
  
  === Line in Record @I11045@ (RIN 11044) from ===
  Line in Record @I11045@ (RIN 11044) from GEDCOM file not recognized: _UID 49C427CA9ECCD61193C3973FD6E9BB5E532A Line in Record @I11046@ (RIN 11045) from GEDCOM file not recognized: _UID 858B322446A2D61193C3E88C9393015F85B7 Line in Record @I11063@ (RIN 11058) from GEDCOM file not recognized: _UID 369F34DE985DD61193C294AD8A14235E78AA Line in Record @I11064@ (RIN 11064) from GEDCOM file not recognized: _UID 573A5B7C3451D61193C2CDEE4AFA0D5E93E4 1 _UID C6E2E40DF5E0D51193C2F02AB1EEA0565842 FTM disc 1 Tree # 0986
  
  === NOTES: Count of Louvain, Duke of Braban ===
  NOTES: Count of Louvain, Duke of Brabant
  
  === AKA: Godfrey II, Count of Louvain - Doc. ===
  AKA: Godfrey II, Count of Louvain - Doc. Line 155-24 DEATH: Date: 1143 - Doc. Line 155-24 MARRIAGE: Godfrey II, Count and Luitgarde of Sultzbach - Doc. Line 155-24 Date: 1139 - Doc. Line 155-24
  
  === !Name,parents,Bd,pla,DD,Bap,End-TIB FHL ===
  !Name,parents,Bd,pla,DD,Bap,End-TIB FHL 884549

• m. ABT 963

1. Gothelo I, "the Great" of Louvain Duke, b. 952 in Leuven Graafschap bergen Ostfrankenreich     d. in Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Belgium
2. Hermann de Verdun, b. ABT 965 in Westphalia, Prussia, Germany     d. 28 MAY 1029 in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France
3. Gerberge de Verdun, b. 973 in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France     d. ABT 1030
4. Ermengarde de Verdun, b. ABT 975 in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France     d. 1042

1. Title: Godefroi, Graf von Bidgau, Comte de Verdun and Comte de Hainaut, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://shop.fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIAN%20(UPPER)%20NOBILITY.htm#Godefroidied995B [See document in the Memories section]
   Publication: Name: http://shop.fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIAN%20(UPPER)%20NOBILITY.htm#Godefroidied995B;
   Note: Godefroi, Graf von Bidgau, Comte de Verdun and Comte de Hainaut, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://shop.fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIAN%20(UPPER)%20NOBILITY.htm#Godefroidied995B [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Godefroi, Graf von Bidgau, Comte de Verdun and Comte de Hainaut, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~http://shop.fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIAN%20(UPPER)%20NOBILITY.htm#Godefroidied995B [See document in the Memories section]
   
2. Title: Godefroi, Gozelon I and Gozelon II, Dukes of Lower Lotharingia, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIA.htm#Gozelondied1044A [See document in the Memories section]
   Publication: Name: https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIA.htm#Gozelondied1044A;
   Note: Godefroi, Gozelon I and Gozelon II, Dukes of Lower Lotharingia, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIA.htm#Gozelondied1044A [See document in the Memories section]
   Page: Godefroi, Gozelon I and Gozelon II, Dukes of Lower Lotharingia, in the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy ~https://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIA.htm#Gozelondied1044A [See document in the Memories section]
   
3. Title: Godfrey I of Verdun, "Find A Grave Index"
   Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG5-YM3N : 14 April 2023), Godfrey I of Verdun, ; Burial, Ghent, Arrondissement Gent, East Flanders Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium, Abbaye De Saint Pierre-Du-Mont Blandin; citing record ID 130412583, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
   Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVG5-YM3N;
   
4. Title: Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
   Publication: Name: http://shop.fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LOTHARINGIAN%20(UPPER)%20NOBILITY.htm#Godefroidied995B;
   Note: GODEFROI, son of Comte GOZELON & his wife Uda [Matfriede] (-3 Sep [998 or after], bur Gent St Peter). "Uda…comitissa" donated property "in pago Rizzigowi cui Egylolfus comes" to St Maximin at Trier "pro remedio…seniorique mei Gozlini necnon filiorum meorum Henrici…et Reginheri, Godefridi quoque et Adalberonis" by charter dated 18 May 963 witnessed by "Sigefrido comite, Richwino comite"[1205]. "Otto…Romanorum imperator augustus" confirmed the rights of "monasterio super fluvium Mose" founded by "Gotefridi comitis nostrique fidelis…et coniux sua pro anime sui fratris Alberonis" by charter dated 6 Apr 997[1206]. Graf von Bidgau: "Bovo cum coniuge mea Engila" donated property "ex hereditate paterna…in villa Dundeva in comitatu Bedense cui Godefridus comes preesse dinoscitur" to St Maximin at Trier by charter dated 1 Nov 959[1207]. He was installed as Comte de Verdun before [960]: "Rodulfus filius quondam…comitis Rodulfi et eius…coniugis Evæ" donated property "res…meæ…in pago et in comitatu Virdunensi…Geldulfi villa" for the souls of "senioris mei Wigfridi episcopi et parentis mei Ottonis, Gisleberti quondam comitis fratris" to Verdun Saint-Vanne by charter dated to [960], subscribed by "Gotdefridi comitis et fratris eius Heinrici"[1208]. "Godefridi comitis, Ingelberti advocati, Arnulfi junioris marchysi…" signed the charter dated 11 Apr 969 under which "Theodericus comes" donated "sui iuris possessionem…Frilingim in pago Flandrensi" to Saint-Pierre de Gand[1209]. Comte de Hainaut 973. "Godefridus comes et uxor sua Mathildis" donated "regium fiscum Holinium…in pago Tornacensi…et…Ramelgeis ecclesia…" to Saint-Pierre de Gand by charter dated [21 Jan] 974, signed by "Arnulfi…junioris marchysi, Herimanni comitis filiis Godefridi comitis, Wiggeri, Ingelberti advocati…"[1210]. "Godefridus…comes et uxor mea Mathildis" donated "Holinum…in pago Tornacensi…" to Saint-Pierre de Gand by charter dated 21 Jan 979, signed by "…Hermanni comitis filii Godefridi comitis…Ingelberti advocati…"[1211]. Marquis d'Eenham. The Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensium records that "comites Godefridus…[et] Arnulfus" defended Cambrai against Lothaire King of the West Franks, during the absence of Emperor Otto II in Poland, dated to 979, and against Eudes de Vermandois who had constructed Vinchy castle near the city[1212]. The Epistolæ Bambergenses name "Gottefredus et Arnulfus marchiones" among those who sent contingents for the Italian expedition of 980[1213], which likely refer to Godefroi Comte de Verdun et de Hainaut (who was marquis d'Eenham) and Arnoul de Cambrai (marquis de Valenciennes). Richer records that "Belgicæ dux Theodericus, necnon et vir nobilis ac strenuus Godefridus, Sigefridus quoque vir illustris, Bardo etiam et Gozilo fratres clarissimi et nominatissimi" captured Verdun in 985[1214]. He helped defend Verdun against Lothaire King of the West Franks in [984/85], but was captured together with Siegfried Comte de Luxembourg[1215]. Otto III King of Germany confirmed rights of Gant Saint-Pierre abbey in property "in pago Haginao villam Dulciacum [et]…in pago Bracbanto villam Wandeleni…quam Eilbodo…tradidit…", at the request of "Godefridi et Arnulfi comitem", by charter dated 20 May 988[1216]. Richer records that "Godefridus comes cum duobus filiis suis, atque Ragenerus Remensium vice-dominus" were among the lay representatives at the council of Mouzon in 995[1217]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records that "comes Raginerus" captured "Montem castri" from "comiti Godefrido" in 998[1218] which, if the text refers to this Godefroi, suggests a later date of death (assuming the dating of Alberic is accurate). The necrology of Verdun Saint-Vanne records the death "III Non Sep" of "Godefridus comes pater ducis Gozelonis qui nobis Borrarum dedit"[1219]. m ([963]) as her second husband, MECHTILD of Saxony, widow of BALDWIN III joint Count of Flanders, daughter of HERMANN Billung Duke in Saxony & his [first/second] wife [Oda ---/Hildesuit ---] ([942]-Ghent 25 May 1008, bur Ghent St Peter). The Annalista Saxo names (in order) "Bennonis ducis, qui et Bernhardus et Liudigeri comitis et Machtildis comitisse" as brothers and sister of "domna Suanehildis [filia] Herimanni ducis de Liuniburh", recording the names of Mechtild's two husbands[1220]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Mathildis comitissa Saxonie" as wife of "Godefridi Ardennensis"[1221]. Sigebert names "dux Godefridus…Eihamensis" and states that he married "Mathildem, filiam Herimanni ducis Saxonum, viduam relictam Baldewini comitis"[1222]. "Godefridus comes et uxor sua Mathildis" donated "regium fiscum Holinium…in pago Tornacensi…et…Ramelgeis ecclesia…" to Saint-Pierre de Gand by charter dated [21 Jan] 974[1223]. "Heinricus…Romanorum imperator augustus" confirmed the rights and property of Kloster Mouzon donated by (among others) "dux Fredericus pro anima Ottonis…[et] Godefridus comes et coniux sua Mathildis pro anima sui fratris Adalberonis archiepiscopi" by charter dated 1023[1224]. The necrology of Liège Saint-Lambert records the death "VIII Kal Jun" of "Mathildis comitisse"[1225]. The necrology of Verdun Saint-Vanne records the death "VIII Kal Jun" of "domna Matildis comitissa"[1226]. Comte Godefroi & his wife had [eleven] children: 1. ADALBERO (-in Italy 18 Apr 988, bur Verdun Cathedral). 2. FREDERIC (-Verdun 6 Jan 1022, bur Monastery St Guy). 3. HERMAN [Hezelo] (-28 May 1029, bur Verdun Saint-Vanne). 4. GODEFROI (-26 Sep 1023, bur Verdun Saint-Vanne). 5. GOZELON ([968/73]-19 Apr 1044, bur Münsterbilsen) 6. ADELA . 7. IRMGARD (-1042). 8. ERMENTRUDE (-7 Mar after 1010). 9. [REGINLIND (-1 Feb [1050]). 10. [GERBERGE . 11. [--- . m ---.] One child: