Gozlin,_Count_of_Bidgau_and_Methingau

Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau

Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau

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Gozlin (c. 911 between 19 October 942 and 16 February 943), was count of the Ardennes and the Bidgau, and army commander for his brother, Adalbero I of Metz.[1]

Gozlin was a son of Count Palatine Wigeric of Lotharingia and Cunigunda of France.[2] In 930, he married Oda of Metz (905 10 April 963),[2] a daughter of Count Gerard of Metz and Oda of Saxony. Through her mother Oda was a cousin of King Henry the Fowler of East Francia (Germany). Gozlin and Oda had the following children:


References

  1. Huysmans, Ortwin (January 2015). "Pious Foundation or Strategic Masterstroke? The Chronicon Mosomense and the Reform of Mouzon by Archbishop Adalbero of Reims (969-989)". Revue d'Histoire Ecclésiastique. 110 (1–2): 103–134. doi:10.1484/j.rhe.5.105329. ISSN 0035-2381.
  2. Nash 2017, table 2.

Sources

  • Nash, Penelope (2017). Empress Adelheid and Countess Matilda: Medieval Female Rulership and the Foundations of European Society. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Parisse, ‘Généalogie de la Maison d'Ardenne’, La maison d'Ardenne Xe-XIe siècles. Actes des Journées Lotharingiennes, 24 - 26 oct. 1980, Centre Univ., Luxembourg, (1981) 9-41

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