Gerhard, duke in Upper Lorraine

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: 14 April or 11 August, about 1070.

Place of Death: Remiremont.

Rieckenberg gives 1070. Parisse gives 11 August 1070 in Remiremont. Poull (p. 22) gives 14 April in Remiremont.

Place of Burial: Remiremont.

The place is given by Rieckenberg.

Relationships

Father: Gerhard, count in Alsace.

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

Mother: Gisela.

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

(probable) Spouse: Hedwig de Namur.

This relationship is given by Rieckenberg and by Parisse. Poull (p. 22), while acknowledging that most historians gives Hedwig as being the daughter of the count of Namur, regards this as unproven. Weller (p. 535) states that Hedwig was probably from the house of Namur.

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.)

Dietrich II (died 30 December 1115), duke of Upper Lorraine, married (1) Hedwig von Formbach; married (2) Gertrude de Flandre.

Gerard (died 1108), count of Vaudémont, married (1) Alberade; married (2) Heilwig von Egisheim.

Gisèle.

Béatrix married Étienne (I) “Tête-Hardi”, count of Mâcon.

References

Cawley, Charles. “GERARD Duke of Upper Lotharingia” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

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].

Weller, Tobias. Die Heiratspolitik des deutschen Hochadels im 12. Jahrhundert. (2004: Böhlau Verlag).