Count of Lorraine and Verdun Gozelon D'Ardennes (Gozelo I Nieder-Lothringen, Gozelo de Lorraine) 
Gozelon was born in 0967 in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France.1 Gozelon's father was Count Gottfried (The Prisoner, The Captive) de Berdun I and his mother was Mathilde Saxony. His paternal grandparents were Count Gothelon d'Ardennes I and Uda von Metz; his maternal grandparents were Duke of Saxony Hermann Billung Saxony and Hildegardis von Westerburg. He had three brothers and four sisters, named Gottfried, Frederick, Herman, Adelaide, Regilla, Gerberge and Ermengarde. He was the third youngest of the eight children. He had two half-brothers and a half-sister, named Arnold, Jean and Bertha. He died at the age of 77 on April 19th, 1044 in Ardennes, Lorraine, France.1 General Notes
Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine
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Gothelo or Gozelo (c. 967 – 19 April 1044), called the Great, was the duke of Lower Lorraine from 1023 and of Upper Lorraine from 1033. He was also the margrave of Antwerp from 1005 (or 1008) and count of Verdun. Gothelo was the youngest son of Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, and Matilda Billung, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony. On his father's death, he received the march of Antwerp and became a vassal of his brother, Godfrey II, who became duke of Lower Lorraine in 1012. He succeeded his brother in 1023 with the support of the Emperor Henry II, but was opposed until Conrad II forced the rebels to submit in 1025. When the House of Bar, which ruled in Upper Lorraine, became extinct in 1033, with the death of his cousin Frederick III, Conrad made him duke of both duchies, so that he could assist in the defence of the territory against Odo II, count of Blois, Meaux, Chartres, and Troyes (the later Champagne).
In the Battle of Bar on 15 November 1037, Gothelo dealt a decisive blow to Odo, who was trying to creating an independent state between France and Germany. Odo died in the battle.
Gothelo died on 19 April 1044 and is buried in the Abbey Church of Bilsen. His son Godfrey succeeded in Upper Lorraine, but the Emperor Henry III refused to give him the duchy of Lower Lorraine as well. When Godfrey showed disagreement with the imperial decision, Henry III threatened to pass the duchy to Godfrey's incompetent brother Gothelo. This caused a long rebellion in Lotharingia between the allies of Godfrey (the counts of Flanders and Leuven) and imperial forces (1044-1056).
Family
The name of Gothelo's wife is not known. He had the following children:
Godfrey the Bearded, duke of Upper Lorraine
Gothelo, duke of Lower Lorraine
Frederick, later Pope Stephen IX
Regilinda, married Albert II, Count of Namur
Oda, married Lambert II, Count of Leuven
Matilda, married Henry I, Count Palatine of Lotharingia
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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.0860
- b.0889 in Provins, Champagne-Ardennes, France d.0923 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia
- b.0838 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France d.11 Jan 0886
- b.0871
- b.0840 in Alsace, France d.22 Jun 0896 in Arles, Bouches-du-Rhone, Provence, France
- b.0911 in Aachen, Rhineland, Prussia d.18 Dec 0943
- b.0842 d.0874
- b.0865 d.0927
- b.0845
- b.0890 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.0927
- b.01 Nov 0843
- b.0875
- b.0858 d.18 Oct 0900
- b.0932 in Lorraine, France d.24 Jul 1009
- b.0820 in Niederlahngau, Hesse, Thuringen, Saxony d.09 Nov 0879 in Niederlahngau, Hesse, Thuringen, Saxony
- b.0860 in Niederlahngau, Hesse, Thuringen, Saxony d.0930 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France
- b.0830 in Trieste, Fruili, Italy
- b.0883 in Metz, Moselle, Lorraine, France d.0920
- b.0865
- b.0915 in Metz, Lorraine, France d.07 Apr 0963
- b.0860 in Schwaben, Germany, Medieval States
- b.0890 in Schwaben, Germany, Medieval States
- b.0844 in Saargau, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States d.28 Aug 0886 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.0870 in Bamberg, Franconia, Germany, Medieval States
- b.0849 in Spoleto, Umbria, Italy d.0870
- b.0967 in Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France d.19 Apr 1044 in Ardennes, Lorraine, France
- b.0804 in Niederlahngau, Hesse, Thuringen, Saxony
- b.0840 in Niederlahngau, Hesse, Thuringen, Saxony
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- b.0874 in Niederlahngau, Hesse, Thuringen, Saxony d.0967 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany
<Unknown>
- b.0910 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany d.27 Mar 0973 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany
- b.0878
- b.0937 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany d.25 May 1008
- b.0816 d.02 Feb 0880
- b.0836 d.02 Jan 0879
<Unknown>
- b.29 Nov 0874 in Gandersheim, Sachsen, Preussen d.05 Sep 0929 in Lenzen, Sachsen
- b.0806 d.0866
- b.0842 d.0874
- b.0816 in Niederlahngau, Hesse, Thuringen, Saxony d.05 Oct 0913
- b.0918 in Westerberg, Saxony, Germany
- b.0823 d.0875
- b.0862
<Unknown>
- b.0888 in Preussen d.0920
- b.0845
- b.0871
- b.0855
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Details of Gozelon's family with Urraca di Ivrea
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=michaelrneuman&id=I019027&style=TABLE
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