Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine

Adalbert (1000 – 11 November 1048 in Thuin) was the Duke of Upper Lorraine from 1047 until his death the next year. He was the first son of Gerard de Bouzonville (Gerhard), Count of Metz, and Gisela (Gisella), possibly a daughter of Theodoric I, Duke of Upper Lorraine.

Adalbert
Duke of Lorraine
Reign1047-48
PredecessorGodfrey III
SuccessorGerhard
Born1000
Died11 November 1048(1048-11-11) (aged 47–48)
Thuin
FatherGerard de Bouzonville
MotherGisela

Gothelo I, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Upper Lorraine, died in 1044 and was succeeded by his son Godfrey III in Upper Lorraine but was refused Lower Lorraine. Irritated, Godfrey rebelled in that same year and devastated his suzerain's lands in Lower Lorraine. He was soon defeated and Adalbert named in his place in Upper Lorraine. Godfrey continued to fight for all Lorraine and Adalbert died in battle against him at Thuin on 11 November 1048. He had no known children,[1] and Henry III, Holy Roman Emperor immediately nominated his brother Gerhard to succeed him.

See also

  • Dukes of Lorraine family tree

Notes

  1. In 1960, Szabolcs de Vajay hypothesized that Adalbert was count of Longwy and father-in-law of William VII of Aquitaine and William I, Count of Burgundy. (Annales de Bourgogne, Vol 32 (1960) 258-261), and has been followed in this by Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, Line 144-22. However, de Vajay subsequently published an unqualified retraction of his hypothesis in "Parlons encore d'Etiennette" in Onomastioque et Parente dans l'Occident medieval (Prosopographica et Genealogica, no.3), K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2-6.
Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine
House of Metz
Born: 1000 Died: November 11 1048
Preceded by
Godfrey III
Duke of Upper Lorraine

1047–1048
Succeeded by
Gerhard
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