Duke Mathieu of Lorraine I (Matthias of Lorraine) 
Mathieu was born in 1118.1 Mathieu's father was Duke Simon of Lorraine I and his mother was Aleidis of Hainault. His paternal grandparents were Thierry (The Brave) of Upper Lorraine II and Countess Hedwig of Formbach; his maternal grandparents were Count Baldwin of Hainault II and Ida de Louvain. He had a sister named Agathe. He was the older of the two children. He had a half-sister named Mathilde. He died at the age of 58 on May 13th, 1176.1 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
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.1024 d.18 Jan 1071
- b.1060 in Lorraine, France d.23 Jan 1115 in Chatenois
- b.0980 d.1000
- b.0997 d.1064
- b.0991
- b.1030 d.1074
- b.0967 in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France d.19 Apr 1044 in Ardennes, Lorraine, France
- b.1005 d.1067
- b.0964 in Ivrea, Tuscany, Italy
- b.1088 d.1139
- b.1050 in Formbach, Germany d.1088
- b.1118 d.13 May 1176
- b.0980
- b.1012
- b.0995 in Flanders, Belgium d.21 Feb 1030 in Flanders, France
- d.1070
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in France
- b.1003 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Monasteraere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, France
- b.0974 d.1032
- b.1056 in Flanders, Belgium d.1098
- b.0950 d.1013
- b.0995 d.1039
- b.0972 d.1013
- b.1040 d.15 Mar 1086
- b.0970 in Verdun, Vessey Parish, Manche, Normandy, France d.28 May 1029
- b.1005
- b.0974 in Dagsburg, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- b.1084 in Hainault, Belgium d.1153
- b.0952 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium d.12 Sep 1015 in Florennes, Belgium
- b.0991 in Florennes, Louvaine, Brabant, France d.21 Sep 1062
- b.0977 in Lower Lorraine, France
- b.1021 in Brabant, France d.1078
- b.1026
- b.1015 d.1044
- b.1037 d.21 Aug 1057
- b.1065
- b.0985 in Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands d.1018
- b.1015 in Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands d.1067
- b.0990
- b.1054 in Betuwe, Gelderland, Netherlands d.1086
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Details of Mathieu's family with Judith von Hohenstaufen
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=arciek&id=I17333&style=TABLE
Further source/citation:
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Further source/citation:
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