Wigeric of Lotharingia, Count Palatine of Lotharingia
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Navn Wigeric of Lotharingia Suffiks Count Palatine of Lotharingia Kjønn Mann Død Før 923 Tyskland 
Person ID I501122 Haslund Sist endret 15 Jul 2019
Familie Cunigunda of France, f. Ca 893, Tyskland , d. Ett 923, Tyskland (Alder ~ 31 år) Gift 909 Barn 1. Gozlin Count of Bidgau and Methingau, f. 911, d. Ca 943 (Alder 32 år) 2. Siegfried of Luxembourg, Count of Luxembourg, f. Ca 922, Tyskland , d. 28 Okt 998, St. Maximin's Abbey, Trier (Alder ~ 76 år)Sist endret 15 Jul 2019 Famile ID F500340 Gruppeskjema | Familiediagram
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Notater 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, 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.
Family
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:
- Siegfried, count of Luxembourg
Some genealogies record two other children, Henry and Liutgard, who were in fact son and daughter of another Wigeric, son of Roric, a contemporary living in the shire of Bidgau-Trier.
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)
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