Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine
Frederick I (c. 912 – 18 May 978) was the
duke of Upper Lorraine.[1] He was a son of Wigeric, count of Bidgau, also count palatine of Lorraine, and Cunigunda,[2] and thus a sixth-generation descendant of Charlemagne
.
In 954, he married
House of Ardennes
.
The
in Lower Lorraine and Frederick in Upper Lorraine. After Bruno's death in 977, Frederick and Godfrey styled themselves dukes.As duke, Frederick oversaw the reform of
Saint-Dié and Moyenmoutier.[5]
Family
Frederick and Beatrice had:
- Henry (died between 972 and 978)[1]
- Metz[1]
- count of Bar and duke of Upper Lorraine[6]
- Ida (970–1026), married, in 1010, Radbot, Count of Habsburg (970–1027), who built the castle of Habichtsburg and is thus an ancestor of the great Habsburg family which dominated Europe in the sixteenth century.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c Le Jan 2003, Tableau no 62.
- ^ Nash 2017, p. xxvi.
- ^ Wickham 2009, p. 450.
- ^ Evergates 1995, p. 96.
- ^ Reuter 1992, p. 49.
- ^ Leyser 1994, p. 166.
Sources
- Evergates, Theodore (1995). "Bar-le-Duc". In Kibler, William W.; Zinn, Grover A. (eds.). Medieval France: An Encyclopedia. Garland Publishing, Inc.
- Le Jan, Régine (2003). Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siècle), Essai d’anthropologie sociale (in French). Éditions de la Sorbonne.
- Leyser, Karl (1994). Reuter, Timothy (ed.). Communications and Power in Medieval Europe. The Hambledon Press.
- Nash, Penelope (2017). Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Reuter, Timothy, ed. (1992). Warriors and Churchmen in the High Middle Ages: Essays Presented to Karl Leyser. The Hambledon Press.
- Wickham, Chris (2009). The Inheritance of Rome. Viking Penguin.