Family/Spouse: Renald, Ct. Ermengarde of Bar Dau. Of. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
her 2nd husband

1. Otho Count was born in 1000; died on 25 May 1045.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Reference Number: 579

Notes:

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{Alternately, Albert I may be son of Herbert I and therefore a brother to
Herbert II. W.H.Turton, "The Plantagenet Ancestry"
(Balt.:Gen.Pub.Co.,1968),p.112, shows Herbert II and wife Hildebrand as
parents of Albert I, and Herbert III as son of Albert I and Gerberga of
Lorraine.}

I married Lorraine, Gerberga of on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Count of Vermandois and Troyes.

II married Liegarde, of FranceTroyes, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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Giselbert supported Henry I who rewarded him with his daughter Gerberga in
marriage and with the title, Duke of Lorraine (928). In 939 Giselbert
revolted against Henry I's son, Otto I the Great and was killed in defeat
near Andernach - Otto I thereupon was recognized by Louis IV as Duke of
Lorraine and Louis IV married Gerberga. Giselbert was lay abbot of
Echternach, 915-39.

+ Saxony, Gerberga of. Gerberga (daughter of Henry, The Emperor of Germany I and Ringelheim, Mathilda of) died on 5 May 984. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
her first husband

Notes:

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Herbert was Count de Vermandois, Siegneur of Senlis, Peronne and St.
Quentin. {- ref. "Ancestral Roots of Sixty New England Colonists," by
F.L.Weis (Lancaster, Mass., 1950, p. 64).} Allstrom's "Dict. of Royal
Lineage," Vol. ii, p. 755, states that Herbert m. Richilde, dau. of Robert
the Strong who died in battle, 866/67. Herbert I was Imperial Ambassador.

I married de Morvois, Bertha ("Lady Beatrix") on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Duke, then King

Notes:

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Robert did not claim the crown on his brother's death in 898, but recognized the Carolingian king, Charles III; Robert continued to defend northern France from Norman attacks as "duke of the Franks"; about 921 he gathered support for his claim, and
drove Charles into Lorraine; 29 June 922 he was crowned at Rheims and the next year faced Charles' attempt to oust him, during which "in a stubborn and sanguinary battle near Soissons, Robert was killed, according to one tradition, in single combat
with his rival." {-Encyclopedia Britannica, 1956 Ed., 19:346} Robert's daughter, Emma, m. Raoul of Burgundy who reigned 923-936.

I married Adele on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

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"Ancestral Roots..." (Balt., 1992) 48-18 gives Aelis as first wife of
Robert I, but other sources state that Beatrix of Vermandois is the first.

Notes:

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First to bear title of Count of Hainaut ca. 875; controlled duchy of
Lorraine; married the great-granddaughter of Charlemagne. He became first
Duke of Lorraine in 911. He was lay abbot of Echternach (Luxembourg),
897-915.

I + Hersent, of France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
his first wife

Notes:

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Building on the strong base achieved by his father, Henry I further extended
Saxony and was elected German King in 919. He walled towns and built
substantial fortifications; he established markets, churches and monasteries
and encouraged learning and culture. He defended Germany against the Wends
(929), the Magyars (who invaded Thuringia in 933) and the Viking Danes (934).
He was the first to create a unified Germany.

I married Ringelheim, Mathilda of in 909. Mathilda (daughter of Dietrich Ct. of Ringelheim and Lorraine, Gisele of) was born in 894 in Memleben, Germany; died on 14 May 936 in Quedlinberg, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]