Giselbert Duke of Lorraine ^{1 2 3}

   Another name for Giselbert was Gilbert Duke of Lorraine.

  Research Notes:

First husband of Gerberga of Saxony.

From Ancestral Roots, Line 240-18, p. 217, "From these two brothers [Reginar II and Giselbert] are descended the later kings of England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, many of the German emperors, the Dukes of Brabant, Burgundy, Warwick, Northumberland, and Lorraine, the Earls of Chester, Clare, and Pembroke, the Counts of Roucy, Vermandois, Barcelona, Provence, Nevers, Poitou, Burgundy, and Savoy, and the families of Cantelou, Courtenay, Zouche, and many others."

  Birth Notes:

Ancestral Roots has b. abt 880 or b. abt 890. The most recent research give abt 880.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Lay Abbot of Echternach, 915-939.

Giselbert married Gerberga of Saxony, daughter of Henry I "the Fowler" Duke of Saxony, King of the Saxons and Mechtilde of Ringelheim, in 929. (Gerberga of Saxony was born about 914 in <Nordhausen, Saxony, (Thuringia, Germany)>, died on 5 May 984 in Reims, (Marne), Champagne, France and was buried in Reims, (Marne), Champagne, France.)