Gozelo I, Count of Montaigu

Gozelon (died 1064), was Count of Behogne and then Count of Montaigu,[1] and is of unknown parentage. He was also avoué of Saint-Barthélémy, Liège, beginning in 1043. Onomastics would suggest that the name Gozelon implies a family connection with the House of Verdun, who had several men with this name and a strong presence in the same Ardennes region. Gozlin, Count of the Ardennes, for example, had a grandson Gozelon, Count of Bastogne, the successor to his father Reginar. Another one of Gozlin's grandsons (the son of Godfrey the Captive), was also known as Gozelo, but there is no direct evidence for a relationship.

In 1038, in an act witnessed by Gozelon, Gothelo the Great, Duke of Lorraine, Arnold I, Count of Looz, and an unknown count named Sigebold, the Archbishop of Trier Poppo von Babenberg restored the monastery of St. Matheus of Trier. Gozelon apparently destroyed the church at Marly and was subsequently buried at the church of Saint Hubert, the Apostle of the Ardennes.

Gozelon married Ermentrude (Ermengarde) de Grandpré,[2] daughter of Widrich I, Count of Clermont, and his wife Hersende. Gozelon and Ermentrude had five children:

• Conon, Count of Montaigu
• Raoul of Montaigu
• Guy of Montaigu
• Jean of Montaigu (d. before 1112), Provost of Saint Pierre, likely Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême (Angoulême Cathedral)
• Henry of Montaigu (d. 1124 or after), Archdeacon and dean (decant) at Saint Lambert, Liège (1095).

Gozelon was the patriarch of the family of Counts of Montaigu that eventually became Counts of Duras, by marriage to an heiress. Gozelon was succeeded as Count of Montaigu by his son Conon, a knight in service of his brother-in-law Godfrey of Bouillon, the first ruler of the Kingdom of Jerusalem. For further details on the transition from Gozelon to his son, see Conon (succession).