Count Palatine
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: after 19 January 916, and probably before 13 June 919.
Place of Death: Hastières.
The date and place are given by Baldwin.
Place of Burial: Hastières.
The place is given by Baldwin.
Relationships
Father: unknown.
Mother: unknown.
Le Jan (p. 218) gives Wigeric's father as Odacar. Baldwin regards this as dubious.
Spouse: Kunigond.
This relationship is given by Baldwin, by Le Jan (p. 218), and by Murray (p. 6).
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 Baldwin, who notes that Giselbert may have been a son of Kunigond’s second husband, Ricuin.)
Adalbero I (about 905 or 910 - 26 April 962), bishop of Metz.
Liutgard married (1) Adalbert; married (2) Eberhard.
Gozlin (died 18 October 942), count, married Uda.
(probable) Children:
Frédéric I (died 978), duke of Upper Lorraine, married Béatrix de France.
Sigefroid/Siegfried married Hedwig.
(possible) Children:
Giselbert.
References
Baldwin, Stewart. “Wigeric (Wigericus, Widricus)” in The Henry Project. (2007).
Hlawitschka, Eduard. “Gottfried der Gefangene von Verdun”, in Neue Deutsche Biographie 6 (1964), S. 666-667. [Onlinefassung].
Le Jan, Régine. Femmes, pouvoir et société dans le haut Moyen Age. (Picard, 2001).
Murray, Alan V. The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History. (Prosopographica et Genealogica: 2000).