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Birth:          ABT  886 of Luxembourg and Aachen
Death:          BEF  923 

Notes
alive 919
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigeric_of_Lotharingia
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[Note 1] 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.[1]:16

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),[2] 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.[1]
Family and descendants[edit]

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.[1] Their children were:
Frederick (died 978), count of Bar, the duke of Upper Lorraine from 959
Adalberon (died 962), bishop of Metz
Gilbert (died 964), count in the Ardennes
Sigebert (fl. c. 942)
Gozlin (died 942), count of Bidgau, married Uda of Metz, father of: Godfrey the 
Prisoner
Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims

Siegfried, count of Luxembourg
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—Ardennes-Verdun, Ardennes-Bar and Ardennes-Luxembourg—
dominated 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)[1]


Marriage To ____ Cunigunde (ABT  893 - AFT  923)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Ermentrude (ABT  875 - )
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Children by ____ Cunigunde ABT  893 - AFT  923
OF TRIES Luitgard (ABT  908 - )
VON ARDENNES Gozelin (Gonzelo) (ABT  911 - ABT  943)
____ Frederick (Friedrich) I "Ferry" ( 912 - 18 May  978)
____ Siegfried (ABT  922 - 28 Oct  998)

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