Giselbert

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• Alternate death: Aft 991
• Alternate death: 19 Apr 1000

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Count of Roucy.

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

1. Liétaud de Roucy
2. Ebles I de Roucy was born about 980; died on 11 May 1033.

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Also called Ragebold. Count of Roucy 948-967. Count of Reims.

Renaud married Alberade de Lorraine. Alberade (daughter of Giselbert I and Gerberga of Saxony) was born about 931; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Remi, Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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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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]