Otto

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Count of Vermandois.

Family/Spouse: Parvi. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Herbert IV was born about 1032; died after 30 Sep 1080.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 955

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Count of Vermandois.

Herbert married Ermengarde before 987. Ermengarde died after 1018. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1035

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Given in some sources as a daughter of Reinald, Count of Bar-sur-Seine.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 920
• Alternate death: 8 Sep 987

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Count of Vermandois.

Also called Albert I le Pieux; the Pious; Adalbert.

Albert married Gerberge of Lorraine before 954. Gerberge (daughter of Giselbert I and Gerberga of Saxony) was born about 930; died after 7 Sep 978. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 935

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Count of Meaux, Soissons, and Vermandois and lay abbot of Saint-Crépin and Saint-Médard of Soissons. The Henry Project says it is "very probable" that his father was Heribert I.

Heribert married (Unknown daughter of Robert I, King of France). (Unknown (daughter of Robert I, King of France and (Unknown wife or mistress of Robert I, King of France)) died after 931. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Alleged by various sources to be named Adele; Liegarde; Hildebrante.

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Duke of Lorraine, probably 928-939; Lay-abbot of Echternach, 915-939; Lay-abbot of Stavelot-Malmedyl; Lay-abbot of Saint-Maximin; Lay-abbot of Saint-Servais; Lay-abbot of Chèvremont.

Following his defeat in the Battle of Andernach, drowned in the Rhine while fleeing the forces of Otto I.

"From these two brothers [Giselbert I and Reginar II] are descended the later kings of England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, many of the German emperors, the Dukes of Brabant, Burgundy, Warwick, Northumberland, and Lorraine, the earls of Chester, Clare, and Pembroke, the Counts of Roucy, Vermandois, Bercelona, Provence, Nevers, Poitou, Burgundy, and Savoy, and the families of Cantelou, Courtenay, Zouche, and many others." [Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 240-18]

Giselbert married Gerberga of Saxony in 929. Gerberga (daughter of Heinrich I "The Fowler", King of Germany and St. Matilda) was born between 913 and 914; died on 5 May 969; was buried in Saint-Rémy de Reims. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 5 May 984

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Also called Gerberga of Germany; Gerberga of France.

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• Alternate death: Between 900 and 906

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Count of Vermandois, with Saint-Quentin and Péronne, and lay abbot of Saint-Quentin. Count of Soissons and lay abbot of Saint-Crépin.

Heribert married (Unknown wife of Heribert I). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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King of France, 922-3. Marquess of Neustria, 888-922. Count of Paris, Orléans, Tours. Abbot of Saint-Martin de Tours. Lay-abbot of Marmoutier.

According to The Henry Project, "adhuc parvulus [still a child] at his father's death in 866."

Killed in battle with Charles the Simple at the Battle of Soissons.

Robert married (Unknown wife or mistress of Robert I, King of France). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Possibly Adèle (also called Aelis), who "appears with Robert on 21 May 907, and has been placed as either a wife or daughter of Robert" [The Henry Project], but possibly an entirely separate woman.

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Lay-abbot of Echternach (897-915); Lay-abbot of Stavelot-Malmedy; Lay-abbot of Saint-Servais; Lay-abbot of Saint-Maximum. Lay Margrave between the Meuse and the Scheldt. Count, perhaps of Hesbaye, perhaps of Masau. Called "Dux" 898, 905. Called "Missus Dominicus" 911. Called Marquess 915.

Also called Regnier.

Many genealogical sources, including Ancestral Roots, give Reginar as the son of Giselbert and a daughter of Lothair I. But (as Wikipedia notes), no contemporary evidence exists linking Reginar and this Giselbert. A detailed discussion of what we know and of the plausibility of this and other speculations can be found at The Henry Project.

From Wikipedia (accessed 15 March 2014): "His nickname is variously given in other languages as Langhals, au Long Cou, au Longue Col, Collo-Longus, or Longi-colli. Nevertheless, this nickname does not appear in primary sources and in fact refers to his eponymous grandson [Reginar III, abt 920-973, Count of Hainault] and great-grandson [Reginar IV, abt 950-1013, Count of Mons]."

From The Henry Project: "Regnier was still living on 25 August 915, when he appeared in a charter of Charles 'the Simple' (see above). He was certainly deceased by 19 January 916, when he was not present at the assembly at Heristal, but his sons Giselbert and the younger Regnier were (the order they were listed making it clear that it was not the father who was present) [Parisot (1898), 617; Wampach (1935), 170 (#146)]. If the Catalogi abbatum Epternacensium is correct in having his tenure as lay-abbot end in the fourth year of Charles the Simple (as king of Lorraine -- see above), then Regnier was deceased by November of that year [see Brabant (1881), 66 (#81), n. 1; Parisot (1898), 609-610]."

Reginar married Alberada of Mons. Alberada died after 915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Albreda; Alberade of Lorraine.

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Duke of Sachsen (Saxony). King of Germany 919-936.

Heinrich married St. Matilda in 909. Matilda (daughter of Dietrich and Reinhild of Denmark) was born about 890; died on 14 Mar 968 in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; was buried in Quedlinburg Abbey, Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 895

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Also called Mechtilde of Ringelheim.

"The principal basis for estimating her birth date is that she is said to have been of tender years (aetate tenera) in a passage of Vita Mahthildis reginae shortly before her marriage to Heinrich, which occurred about 909." [The Henry Project]

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• Alternate birth: 818

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Count near Paris. Seigneur of Péronne and Saint-Quentin.

Pépin married (Unknown wife of Pépin). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of France. Marquess in Neustria, ca. 861-866. Count of Anjou, before 853?-865. Count of Blois, 865. Count of Auxerre and Nevers, 865-866. Count of Autun. Lay-abbot of Marmoutier, 852. Lay-abbot of Saint-Martin de Tours, 866.

Also called Robert "le Fort"; Robert "Fortis"; Rutpert IV Count of Wormgau.

Killed at the Battle of Brissarthe while defending Francia against a joint Breton-Viking raiding party led by Salomon, King of Brittany, and the Viking chieftain Hastein.

"Robert's wife (or wives) cannot be unambiguously identified." [The Henry Project]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 836

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Duke of Saxony 880-912.

Otto married Hadwig von Babenberg between 869 and 870. Hadwig (daughter of Heinrich of Babenberg) died on 24 Dec 903. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Hedwiga; Hathui; Haduwich; Hadui von Frankenau.

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Count in Westfalen.

Also called Theodoric.

Fl. 929.

Dietrich married Reinhild of Denmark. Reinhild died about 932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ragnhildis; (possibly spuriously) Ludmilla.

"Reinhild is stated to have been of Danish-Frisian origin in two lives of her daughter queen Mathilde." [The Henry Project]