Gerhard, count in Alsace

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 1045.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Parisse.

Relationships

Father: Adalbert, count of Metz.

This relationship is given by Rieckenberg, by Poull (p. 15), and by Parisse.

Mother: Judith.

This relationship is given by Rieckenberg, by Poull (p. 15), and by Parisse.

Spouse: Gisela.

This relationship is given by Rieckenberg, by Poull (p. 15), and by Parisse. Jackman (p. 49) makes Gisela the sister of Frederick II, duke of Lorraine, and a descendant of Louis the Blind and his Byzantine wife Anna. (Scholars are divided on whether Louis ever actually married Anna.)

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Adalbert (died 11 November 1048), duke of Upper Lorraine.

Gerhard, duke in Upper Lorraine, married Hedwig de Namur.

Konrad.

Adalbero.

Beatrix.

Odelrich.

Cuono.

Gisela.

Oda.

Azelinus.

Ida.

Adelheid.

References

Hlawitschka, Eduard. Die Anfänge des Hauses Habsburg-Lothringen (Saarbrücken, 1969).

Jackman, Donald. “A Greco-Roman Onomastic Fund” in Onomastique et Parenté dans l’Occident médiéval (2000) pp. 14-56.

Parisse, M. "Gerhard I." in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 4 (Stuttgart: 1989).

Poull, Georges. La Maison ducale de Lorraine, (Presses Universitaires de Nancy, 1991).

Rieckenberg, Hans Jürgen. “Gerhard“” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), S. 268 [Onlinefassung].