These pages represent the work of an amateur researcher and should not be used as the sole source by any other researcher. Few primary sources have been available. Corrections and contributions are encouraged and welcomed. -- Karen (Johnson) Fish
Wigeric Count of Bidgau
(Abt 0882-Bef 0923)

 

Family Links

Spouses/Children:
1. Cunigonde

Wigeric Count of Bidgau 1 2 3

  • Born: Abt 882, <Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia (Germany)>
  • Marriage (1): Cunigonde between 907 and 909
  • Died: Bef 923

   Other names for Wigeric were Wideric of Lotharingia, Count of the Bidgau, Wigeric of Lotharingia and Wigerich Count of Trier and Ardennes.

  Research Notes:

First husband of Cunigonde. Founder of the house of Ardennes.

From Wikipedia - Wigeric of Lotharingia :

Wigeric or Wideric (French : Wigéric or Wéderic) (died before 923 ) was the count of the Bidgau (pagus Bedensis) and held the rights of a count within the city of Trier . He received also the advocacy of the abbey of Saint Rumbold's at Mechelen from Charles III of France . From 915 or 916 he was the count palatine of Lotharingia . He was the founder of the House of Ardennes .

At the death of Louis the Child , the Lotharingians rejected the suzerainty of Conrad I and elected Charles of France as their king. At the time, the military authority in Lotharingia was assigned to Count Reginar I of Hainaut (d. 915), but at his death it fell to Wigeric, who became count palatine, exercising as such the military authority in Lotharingia.

Wigeric founded the monastery of Hastière , of which he also assumed the advocacy. He married Cunigunda, daughter of Ermentrude and granddaughter of Louis II of France . Their children were:
Frederick (d.978 ), count of Bar , the duke of Upper Lorraine from 959
Adalberon (d.962 ), bishop of Metz
Gilbert (d.964 ), count in the Ardennes
Sigebert (fl.c.942 )
Gozlin (d.942 ), count of Bidgau, married Uda of Metz, father of:
Godfrey the Prisoner
Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims
Siegfried , count of Luxembourg

Some genealogies record two other children, Henry and Liutgard, who were in fact son and daughter of another Wigeric, son of Roric, a contemporary living in the shire of Bidgau-Trier.

  Death Notes:

May have died by 919.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Living, 899-916.

• Count Palatine: of Lotharingia, 916-923.


Wigeric married Cunigonde, daughter of Unknown and Ermentrude of France, between 907 and 909. (Cunigonde was born about 890 in <Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia (Germany)> and died after 923.)


Sources


1 <i>http://www.familysearch.org</i>, Cit. Date: 31 Jul 2009.

2 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 100B-20.

3 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, "Wigeric of Lotharingia," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wigeric_of_Lotharingia. Cit. Date: 13 Sep 2009.


Home | Table of Contents | Surnames | Name List

This Website was Created 10 May 2020 with Legacy 9.0 from MyHeritage; content copyright and maintained by karen@ffish.com