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Albert III, Comte de Namur was the son of Albert II, Comte de Namur and Regulinde de Basse-Lorraine. He married Ida von Sachsen circa 1067.

Albert — Ida von Sachsen. Ida was born Bef 1047; died Aft 1117. [Group Sheet]

1. Ida of Namur was born Abt 1078, Namur, Belgium; died 23 Apr 1151.

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He married Regulinde de Basse-Lorraine, daughter of Gozelo I der Große Herzog von Niederlothringen and Urraca d'Ivrea.

Albert — Regelindis of Lower-Lorraine. [Group Sheet]

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Albert — Ermengarde de Basse-Lorraine. Ermengarde (daughter of Otto, Duc de Basse-Lorraine) died Aft 1012. [Group Sheet]

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He was the son of Godefroi, Comte de Verdun and Mathildis Billung von Sachsen. He married Urraca d'Ivrea, daughter of Berengar II d'Ivrea, King of Italy and Willa di Toscana.

He succeeded to the title of Duc de Basse-Lorraine in 1023. He gained the title of Duc de Haute-Lorraine in 1033. He succeeded to the title of Duc de Lorraine in 1033.

Gothelo (or Gozelo) (c. 967 - 19 April 1044), called the Great, was the duke of Lower Lorraine from 1023 and of Upper Lorraine from 1033. He was also the margrave of Antwerp from 1005 (or 1008) and count of Verdun. Gothelo was the youngest son of Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, and Matilda Billung, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony. On his father's death, he received the march of Antwerp and became a vassal of his brother, Godfrey II, who became duke of Lower Lorraine in 1012. He succeeded his brother in 1023 with the support of the Emperor Henry II, but was opposed until Conrad II forced the rebels to submit in 1025. When the House of Bar, which ruled in Upper Lorraine, became extinct in 1033, with the death of his cousin Frederick III, Conrad made him duke of both duchies, so that he could assist in the defence of the territory against Odo II, count of Blois, Meaux, Chartres, and Troyes (the later Champagne).

In the Battle of Bar on 15 November 1037, Gothelo dealt a decisive blow to Odo, who was trying to creating an independent state between France and Germany. Odo died in the battle.

Gothelo died on 19 April 1044 and is buried in the Abbey Church of Bilsen. His son Godfrey succeeded in Upper Lorraine, but the Emperor Henry III refused to give him the duchy of Lower Lorraine as well. When Godfrey showed disagreement with the imperial decision, Henry III threatened to pass the duchy to Godfrey's incompetent brother Gothelo. This caused a long rebellion in Lotharingia between the allies of Godfrey (the counts of Flanders and Leuven) and imperial forces (1044-1056).

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The name of Gothelo's wife is not known, the name Barbe de Lebarten (and in fact her entire ancestry), being a spurious concoction of later genealogists. He had the following children:

Godfrey the Bearded, duke of Upper Lorraine
Gothelo, duke of Lower Lorraine
Frederick, later Pope Stephen IX
Regilinda, married Albert II, Count of Namur
Oda, married Lambert II, Count of Leuven
Matilda, married Henry I, Count Palatine of Lotharingia

Gothelo — Urraca d'Ivrea. [Group Sheet]

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He gained the title of Duc de Basse-Lorraine in 993.

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He was the son of Gozelo von Lothringen and Oda von Metz. He gained the title of Comte de Verdun in 963.

Godfrey I (died 1002), called the Prisoner or the Captive (le Captif), sometimes the Old (le Vieux), was the count of Bidgau and Methingau from 959 and the count of Verdun from 963 to his death. In 969, he obtained the Margraviate of Antwerp and Ename. Between 974 and 998, he was also the count of Hainault and Mons.

History

He was the son of Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau, and Oda of Metz. He was the brother of Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims, who crowned Hugh Capet the king of France.

He was the founder of the House of Limburg or House of Ardennes-Verdun, a cadet branch of the House of Ardennes. He was always loyal to the Ottonians, whom he was related through his maternal grandmother.

He appears as the new count of Verdun in 963, though already count of Bidgau and Methingau through inheritance since 959. In 974, he became count of Mons, and Hainault jointly with Arnold, Count of Valenciennes, after the fall of Reginar IV. Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, was a supporter of Reginar and defeated Godfrey and Arnold at Mons in 976, where the former was captured.

After his release, he was at the side of the Emperor Otto II fighting Lothair of France at Verdun in 985, but he was again taken captive and held several years. He was released in 987 by Hugh Capet, whose political ally Godfrey's family was: Adalberon, Godfrey's brother, having crowned Hugh and Godfrey being an enemy of Charles of Lower Lorraine, Hugh's Carolingian rival.

In 989, he was made prisoner a third time by Herbert III of Vermandois. He was liberated before 995, when he appears at the synod of Mousson. In 998, he lost his Hainault portion (the county of Mons) to Reginar.

Family

In 963, he married Matilda, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony, of the Billung family, a widow of Baldwin III of Flanders. He had the following issue:

Frederick (d. 1022), count of Verdun
Godfrey (d. 1023), count of Verdun and duke of Lower Lorraine (1012-1023)
Adalberon (d. 988), bishop of Verdun (984-988)
Herman of Ename (d. 1024), count of Brabant (retired as a monk in the abbey of Verdun abt. 1020)
Gothelo (d. 1044), margrave of Antwerp, duke of Lower (1023-1044) and later also Upper (1033-1044) Lorraine
Bertram de Verdun, grand-uncle of the Bertram I who went to England where he held the manor of Farnham Royal in Buckinghamshire.
Ermengarde (d. 1042), married Otto of Hammerstein, count in the Wettergau
Ermentrude, married Arnold de Rumigny (d. 1010), lord of Florennes
probably also an unnamed daughter, married Count Godizo of Aspelt

Godfrey married Mathildis Billung von Sachsen Abt 963. Mathildis (daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony) was born 942; died 25 May 1008, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium; was buried Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium. [Group Sheet]

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She married, firstly, Baldwin III, Comte de Flandre et Artois, son of Arnulf 'the Great', Comte de Flandre and Adela de Vermandois, in 961. She married, secondly, Godefroi, Comte de Verdun, son of Gozelo von Lothringen and Oda von Metz, circa 963. She was also known as Maud.

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Berengar II d'Ivrea, King of Italy was born circa 900. He was the son of Abelbreta d'Ivrea and Gisella. He married Willa di Toscana, daughter of Boson di Toscana, Marchese di Toscana and Willa II di Borgogna, before 936.

He gained the title of King Berengar II of Italy in 950. He was deposed as King of Italy in 963.

Berengar married Willa di Toscana Bef 936. Willa (daughter of Boson di Toscana, Marchese di Toscana and Willa di Borgogna, II) was born Bef 926; died Aft 06 Aug 966. [Group Sheet]

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She was the daughter of Boson di Toscana, Marchese di Toscana and Willa II di Borgogna. She married Berengar II d'Ivrea, King of Italy, son of Abelbreta d'Ivrea and Gisella (?), before 936.