Conrad I (c. 1040 – 8 August 1086) was count of Luxembourg (1059–1086), succeeding his father, Giselbert.[1]
Conrad was embroiled in an argument with the archbishop of Trier as to the abbaye Saint-Maximin in Trier which he had avowed.[2] The archbishop excommunicated him and Conrad had to make honourable amends and set out on pilgrimage for Jerusalem to have his excommunication lifted.[2] He died in Italy on the return journey.[3]
Conrad founded the Orval Abbey in 1070 with Count Arnold I of Chiny and the Altmünster Abbey in 1083.[4]
His nephew was Hézelon de Liège, canon and architect of the church of Cluny Abbey (Cluny III).[5]
Marriage and issue
[edit]Around 1075 he married Clementia (1060–1142), daughter of Duke William VII of Aquitaine and of Ermesinde.[6] They had:
- Matilda (1070 † ), married Godefroy (1075 † ), Count of Bleisgau
- Henry III († 1096), Count of Luxembourg[7]
- Rudolph († 1099), abbot of Saint-Vannes at Verdun
- Conrad, cité en 1080
- Adalbero, (d. 1098 in Antioch), Archdeacon of Metz, travelled to the Holy Land as part of the army of Godfrey of Bouillon, where he was executed by the Turks
- Ermesinde (1075 † 1143), married
- in 1096 to Albert II († 1098), count of Egisheim and of Dagsbourg,
- in 1101 to Godefroy (1067 † 1139), count of Namur.[8] They were parents of Henry IV of Luxembourg
- William I (1081 † 1131), Count of Luxembourg, married Matilda of Beichlingen[9]
References
[edit]- ^ Gades 1951, p. 55.
- ^ a b Gades 1951, p. 54-56.
- ^ Gades 1951, p. 57.
- ^ Gades 1951, p. 56.
- ^ Dewez, Marie. "Hézelon". Dictionnaire des wallons (in French). Walloon Region. Retrieved 13 December 2023.
- ^ Jackman 2012, p. 51,56.
- ^ Gades 1951, p. 58.
- ^ Jackman 2012, p. 65.
- ^ Gades 1951, p. 59.
Sources
[edit]- Gades, John A. (1951). Luxembourg in the Middle Ages. Brill.
- Jackman, Donald C. (2012). The Kleeberg Fragment of the Gleiberg County. Editions Enplage.
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