Duke Duke Gerard of Upper Lorraine^[1]

Abt 1020 - 1070  (~ 50 years)

• Name	Duke Gerard of Upper Lorraine
  Prefix	Duke
  Birth	Abt 1020	Lorraine, Alsace, France   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Apr 1070	Remiremont, Lorraine, France   [2]
  	Age: 50y
  Person ID	ind07782	The Skaggs-Files
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2024

  
  

  Family	Hadewide de Namur,   b. Abt 1025, Nomurcum (Present Namur), Herzogtum Niederlothringen (within present Belgium) Heiliges Römisches Reich d. 1070, Namur, Grafschaft Namur Heiliges Romisches Reich (Age ~ 45 years)
  Marriage	1043  [3]
  Children	1. Thierry of Upper Lorraine, II,   b. 06 Mar 1044, Lorraine, France d. 30 Dec 1115, Chatenois, Vosges, Lorraine, France (Age 71 years)   2. Comte Comte Gerhard de Vaudemont, I,   b. 1057, Vaudémont, Meurthe-Et-Moselle, Lorraine, France d. 1108, Holy Roman Empire (Age 51 years)   3. Beatrice de Lorraine,   b. 1060, Lorraine, France d. 1117, Saone-et-Loire, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France (Age 57 years)
  Family ID	fam03031	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2024

  
  

• Notes

  DO NOT MERGE WITH https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZ1V-K5X THEY ARE NOT THE SAME PERSON! He was married to Hedwige of Namur (or of Flanders), daughter of Albert II, Count of Namur, and Regelindis of Lower-Lorraine, daughter of Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine. This marriage helped patch up relations with the baronage. They had the following issue: Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine (c.1055–1115), successor in Lorraine Gerard (1057–1108), count of Vaudémont Beatrice, married Stephen I, Count of Burgundy, Mâcon, and Vienne Gisela, abbess of Remiremont He was the patrilineal ancestor of the line of dukes which ruled Lorraine until 1737 and of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty that ruled Tuscany (1737–1859), the Holy Roman Empire (1745–1807), Austria-Hungary (1780–1918), the Duchy of Parma (1814–1847), Duchy of Modena (1815–1859), and Mexico (1864–1867). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard,_Duke_of_Lorraine

  
  

• Sources

  [source01242] http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I9867&style=TABLE. [source4071150094] LZ1V-KTQ. [source4071150093] GDN3-LQK FamilySearch.org, (Publication Date: 20 FEB 2024 Media: Website / URL).