Adalbert, Duke of Lorraine

Adalbert (1000 – 11 November 1048, Thuin) was the Duke of Upper Lorraine from 1047 to his death. He was the son of Gerard de Bouzonville (Gerhard II), Count of Metz, and Gisela (Gisella).

Gothelo I, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Upper Lorraine, died in 1044 and was succeeded by his son Godfrey II in Upper Lorraine but was refused Lower Lorraine. Irritated, to say the least, Godfrey rebelled in that same year and devastated his suzerain's lands in Lower Lorraine. He was soon defeated and Adalbert named in his place in Upper Lorraine. Godfrey, however, continued to fight for all Lorraine and Adalbert died in battle against him at Thuin on 11 November 1148. He had no known children, [In 1960, Szabolcs de Vajay hypothesized that Adalbert was count of Longwy and father-in-law of William VII of Aquitaine and William I, Count of Burgundy. ("Annales de Bourgogne", Vol 32 (1960) 258-261), and has been followed in this by Frederick Lewis Weis, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700", Line 144-22. However, de Vajay subsequently published an unqualified retraction of his hypothesis in "Parlons encore d'Etiennette" in "Onomastioque et Parente dans l'Occident medieval" ("Prosopographica et Genealogica", no.3), K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2-6.] and Henry immediately nominated his brother Gerhard to succeed him.

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*Dukes of Lorraine family tree

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