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  Adalbert III, d. 1048, Count de Longwy, Duke of Upper Lorraine.
  
  (Albrecht) Adalbert Herzog v.Oberlothringen * 10?? + 1048 father : Gerhard v.Metz mother: Gisela v.Metz marriage/union 1: Ermesin de v.Longwy? Stephania v.Longwy?
  
  From - Sun Feb 14 18:48:05 1999
  From: jparsons@@chass.utoronto.ca (John Carmi Parsons)
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  Subject: Re: Clementia de Foix ' older generations
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  Michel Bur's _La Formation du comte' de Champagne_, p. 129, sugg ests the following:
  
  Adalbert or Albert, duke of Upper Lorraine and lord of Longwy d . 1048, husband of Clemence de Foix fl. 1035, was the son of Ger ard count of Metz and his wife Gisella.  (Adalbert was thus a br other of Gerard, who succeeded him as duke of Upper Lorraine 104 8-70 and is the ancestor of all later dukes of Lorraine and th e present house of Habsburg-Lorraine).
  
  Bur believes that Adalbert's parents, Count Gerard of Metz and G isella, were first cousins.  Gerard was the son of a Count Adalb ert d. bef. 1030 and his wife Judith (no family), while Gisell a was the daughter of this Count Adalbert's brother Count Gerar d of Metz fl. 1030 by his wife Eve, daughter of Count Sigfroi o f Luxembourg and Hedwig, who belonged to the family of the count s of Ardennes.
  
  Bur makes the brothers Adalbert d. bef. 1030 and Gerard fl. 103 0 sons of a count Richard or Richer of Metz fl. 968-86.  Miche l Parisse's _Noblesse et Chevalerie de Lorraine_ (1982), however , notes another Count Gerard in this region in the last part o f the 10th century and suggests that either Richer or Gerard cou ld have been the father of Adalbert d. bef. 1030 and Gerard fl . 1030. (Some authorities state that this Adalbert d. 1033 and G erard sometime between 1021 and 1033, and add to their famil y a sister, Adelaide, wife of Count Henry of the Speyergau d. 98 9 and by him mother of the Emperor Conrad II.)
  
  Parisse, building on earlier work by Maurice Chaume and Leon Van derkindere, takes the line further back by making either Count R icher or Count Gerard a son (or sons) of a Matfried/Matfroi, so n of Count Adalbert (of Metz?) d. 944 by Liutgarde, daughter o f Count Wigeric of the Bidgau.  This Adalbert d. 944 is known a s the brother of Bishop Bernouin/Barnouin of Verdun fl. 928-39 . Parisse and others agree in making Adalbert d. 944 and Bernoui n sons of a yet earlier Count Matfroi of Metz fl. 897, d. ca 93 0 (some say in 926) and his wife Lantsind, a sister of Bishop Da don of Verdun fl. 880-923.  Matfroi husband of Lantsind was brot her of Abbot Richer of Prum, later bp of Liege 920-45, and o f a Count Gerard d. 910, husband of Uda of Saxony the widow of K ing Zwentibold of the Germans.
  
  Parisse does not extent this line any further, but Chaume et al . make Matfroi husband of Lantsind the son of a Count Matfroi fl . 867 (d. by 882?), who was in turn son of a Count Matfroi of th e Eiffelgau fl. 843-59 and perhaps as late as 867.  Said Count M atfroi of the Eiffelgau was the son Count Matfroi of Orleans (d . 836) by NF, daughter of Count Leuthard of Paris, a son of th e well-known Count Begon-Conrad of Paris (d. 816) by a first wif e named Guiburg (NOT by Begon-Conrad's second wife Alpais, who w as an out of wedlock daughter probably of Louis the Pious, thoug h also perhaps of Charlemagne himself according to some authorit ies.)
  
  Either Chaume or Vanderkindere suggested that Matfroi d. 836 ha d a sister Ava, wife of Count Hugh of Tours d. 834, and mother o f Adelaide wife of Robert the Strong d. 866. That same Matfroi' s wife's sister, another daughter of Leuthard of Paris, marrie d Count Eudes of Orleans d. 834 and was presumably mother of Erm entrude, wife of Charles the Bald.  Like the pre-Capetians fro m the time of Robert the Strong, then, the line of counts believ ed to be ancestors of the dukes of Lorraine probably benefited f rom their female relatives' marriages.
  
  Schwennicke, vol. 6 table 129, follows the above but gives desce ndants of the Count Gerard d. 910 by Uda of Saxony.
  (signed)
  John Parsons

Details of Adalbert III's family with Clemence de Foix