Gerberga of Lotharingia

Events

Date of Birth: about 935.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Glocker (pp. 282-283) and by Settipani (p. 236).

Date of Death: after 7 September 978.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Glocker (pp. 282-283) and by Settipani (p. 236).

Relationships

(probable) Father: Giselbert, duke of Lotharingia.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:50), by Settipani (p. 236), by Le Jan (p. 207), and by Glocker (p. 283). MacLean (p. 59) states that this relationship is known, citing M. Bur's Chronique ou livre de foundation du monastère de Mouzon (Paris, 1989).

Mother: Gerberga of Germany.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:50), by Settipani ( p. 236), by Le Jan (p. 207), and by Glocker (p. 283).

Spouse: Albert, count of Vermandois.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:50), by Settipani (p. 236), and by Glocker (p. 283).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)

Heribert (IV) (about 954 - 29 August, about 993), count de Vermandois, married Ermengardis.

Otto, count of Ivois.

Liudolf, bishop of Noyon.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Cawley, Charles. “GERBERGA” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Le Jan, Régine. Femmes, pouvoir et société dans le haut Moyen Age. (Picard, 2001).

MacLean, Simon. Ottonian Queenship. (Oxford University Press, 2017).

Settipani, Christian (with Patrick Van Kerrebrouck). La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Première Partie (Volume 1 of Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France, 1993).