Siegfried OF LUXEMBOURG (922?-998)

	Siegfried of Luxembourg

Individual Events and Attributes

Marriage

Individual Note

Siegfried (or Sigefroy) (c. 922 – 28 October 998) is considered the first count of Luxembourg. He was actually count in the Moselgau and the Ardennes. He was also the advocate of the abbeys of Saint-Maximin de Trêves and Saint-Willibrod d'Echternach. He is speculated to be the son of Wigeric of Lotharingia, Count Palatine and Cunigunda. He is the founder of the House of Luxembourg, a cadet branch of the House of Ardennes.

He had possessions from his father in Upper Lorraine. At the centre of his dominions he constructed the fortress of Luxembourg in 963. A town soon grew up around the castle. Though he used the title of count, the title "count of Luxembourg" was only applied to William some 150 years later.

Around 950, he married Hedwig of Nordgau (937–992), daughter of Eberhard IV of Nordgau. They had the following issue:

Henry I of Luxembourg

Siegfried, cited in 985

Frederick I, Count of Salm and Luxembourg, married Ermentrude of Gleiberg, daughter of Heribert I, Count of Gleiberg and Ermentrud (Imizi).

Dietrich, bishop of Metz

Adalberon, canon of Trier

Gislebert (d.1004), count in the Moselgau

Cunigunda, married Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor

Eve, married Gerard, Count of Metz

Ermentrude, abbess

Luitgarde, married Arnulf, Count of Holland

a daughter, married Thietmar

SOURCES:

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 100A-20, 100B-21, 143-19, 143-20

http://luxembourgroyals.web-log.nl/luxembourgroyals/2006/10/siegfried_i_van.html²

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