Duke Mathieu of Lorraine I

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Simon of Lorraine I

Aleidis of Hainault

Thierry (The Brave) of Upper Lorraine II

Count Baldwin of Hainault II

Ida de Louvain

Agathe

General Notes

He was the duke of Lorraine from 1138 to his death as the eldest son and successor of Simon I and Adelaide of Supplinburg. Like his forefathers going back to Thierry II and even to Adalbert, he was a stern supporter of the king of Germany and Holy Roman Emperor. This loyalty transcended dynasties: his fathers had followed the Salians, his mother was a niece of the Supplinburger Emperor Lothair II, and he himself married Judith (sometimes called Bertha), daughter of Frederick II, Duke of Swabia, and therefore niece of the Hohenstaufen king Conrad III and sister of Frederick Barbarossa, future emperor.

He accompanied Barbarossa on a number of important occasions, including his imperial coronation by Pope Adrian IV in Rome, 1155. He assisted the emperor in his wars against Adrian and his successor Alexander III and the kings of France and Sicily. He extended his own ducal demesne at the expense of the bishop of Toul, but was an important donor to the Church and founder of abbeys.

He died in 1176 and was interred in his abbey of Clairlieu in Villers-lès-Nancy.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
- Duke Gerard of Upper Lorraine
  - b.1024 d.18 Jan 1071
  
  Thierry (The Brave) of Upper Lorraine II
  - b.1060 in Lorraine, France d.23 Jan 1115 in Chatenois
  
  Albert de Namur I
  - b.0980 d.1000
  
  Adalbert de Namur II
  - b.0997 d.1064
  
  Ermentrude of Lower Lorraine ^*
  - b.0991
  
  Hedwige de Namur
  - b.1030 d.1074
  
  Regilinde de Lorraine
  - b.1005 d.1067
  
  Simon of Lorraine I
  - b.<  1088 d.1139
  
  Duke Mathieu of Lorraine I
  - b.1118 d.13 May 1176
  
  Baldwin of Flanders IV ^*
  - b.0980
  
  Baldwin of Flanders V
  - b.1012
  
  Ogive de Ardennes ^*
  - b.0995 in Flanders, Belgium d.21 Feb 1029
  
  Count Baldwin (The Peaceable) of Flanders and Hainault VI
  - d.1070
  
  King Robert II (The Pious) Capet Of France ^*
  - b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in France
  
  Princess Adelais Capet of France
  - b.~  1003 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Monasteraere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, France
  
  Constance Of Toulouse ^*
  - b.0974 d.1032
  
  Count Baldwin of Hainault II
  - b.~  1056 in Flanders, Belgium d.1098
  
  Rainier of Hainault IV ^*
  - b.0950 d.1013
  
  Reinier de Hainault V
  - b.0995 d.1039
  
  Edith Capet of France ^*
  - b.0972 d.1013
  
  Richilda de Namur
  - b.1040 d.~15 Mar 1086
  
  Count Hermann de Verdun
  - b.0975
  
  Mathilde de Verdun
  - b.1005
  
  Mathilde de Dagsbourg
  - b.0977
  
  Aleidis of Hainault
  - b.1084 in Hainault, Belgium d.>  1153
  
  Count Lambert of Louvain I ^*
  - b.0950 d.1015
  
  Count Lambert de Louvain II
  - b.~  0991 in Florennes, Louvaine, Brabant, France d.21 Sep 1062
  
  Gerberga of Lower Lorraine ^*
  - b.0977
  
  Count Henry de Louvain II
  - b.1021 in Brabant, France d.1078
  
  Botho von Bottenstein
  - b.1026
  
  Ode de Verdun
  - b.1015 d.1044
  
  Jutte von Schweinfurt ^*
  - b.1037 d.21 Aug 1057
  
  Ida de Louvain
  - b.1065
  
  Godizo of Betuwe ^*
  - b.~  0985 in Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands d.1018
  
  Count Eberhard of Betuwe
  - b.~  1015 in Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands d.~  1067
  
  Berthe
  - b.~  0990
  
  Countess Adelaide von Betuwe
  - b.~  1054 in Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands d.1086
  
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