Kunigund

Also known as Cunégonde.

Events

Date of Birth: about 885 or 895.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The estimated date is given by Baldwin.

Date of Death: possibly 2 October, year unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Baldwin.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Baldwin discusses conjectures.

Mother: Ermentrude, daughter of Louis II “le Begue”, king of France.

This relationship is given by Baldwin and by Settipani (p. 318).

Spouse: Wigeric, count palatine.

This relationship is given by Baldwin, by Le Jan (p. 456), and by Murray (p. 6).

Spouse: Ricuin/Richwin (died 923), count of Verdun.

This relationship is given by Baldwin.

Children (by Wigeric):

(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 Baldwin.)

Adalbero I (died 26 April 962), bishop of Metz.

Liutgard married (1) Adalbert; married (2) Eberhard.

Gozlin (died 18 October 942 or 943), count, married Uda.

Children (probably by Wigeric):

Frédéric I (died 978), duke of Upper Lorraine, married Beatrix, daughter of Hugues le Grand.

Siegfried, count, married Hedwig.

Children (father unclear):

Giselbert.

References

Baldwin, Stewart. “Cunégonde/Kunigund” in The Henry Project. (2007).

Le Jan, Régine. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VII^e - X^e siècle): essai d’anthropologie sociale (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995).

Murray, Alan V. The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History. (Prosopographica et Genealogica: 2000).

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).