Giselbert (Reginar) Lorraine (abt. 885 - 939)

Born about 0885 in Reims, Kingdom of the West Franks

Ancestors

Descendants

Died 7 Oct 0939 at about age 54 in Andernach, Kingdom of the East Franks

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Biography

Giselbert II "Gilbert" (885/900 - 02 Oct 939 Rhine River near Andernach)[1]

Titles

• 928: Duke of Lotharingia[2][3]

Parents

Father: Reginar I "Langhals/Longneck"[4]

Mother: Alberada UNKNOWN[5]

Marriage

m. (928/9 - 939) Gerberga of Germany. Issue: 4[6][7][8]

• Alberade (b. 929/30)[9]

• Haduidis (b. ante 934)

• Henri (ante 934 - 943/5)

• Gerberga (935 - after 07 Sep 978)

Religion

• 925/34: Lay Abbot of St Maximin (Trier)[10]

Death

"Duke Gislebert of the Lotharingians set out raiding across the Rhine and was returning with the Saxons in pursuit. He jumped in the Rhine with his horse and was killed by the force of the water. His body was never found but is is said that fishermen discovered the corpse of a man, which was buried and concealed because of his equipment." (Flodoard)

Sources

Space: Flodoardi Chronicon (Reims : Regnier, 1855) Records his death in 939. (english translation by Fanning & Bachrach)

Henry project (Stewart Baldwin): http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/gisel101.htm

Weis, F.L. (1992). Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, (7th ed). Walter Lee Sheppard Jr. (Ed). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc.

Wikipedia: Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine (stub: 24 Nov 2015)

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