Gebhard, Duke of Lorraine

Gebhard (* 888 testifies; † in June 910, probably on 22, killed in Augsburg) from the family of Conradines was Duke of Lorraine from 903 until his death. His father was Udo in Lahngau.

Gebhard is mentioned 897 and 906 as Count in the upper Rheingau, in the year 909 as Count in the Wetterau. He was a member of one of the most powerful families at this time of the Empire, the child in the exchange of the 9th to the 10th century, played a central role as the (sole ) relatives of the Emperor Arnulf and his underage son King Louis.

Arnulf had Gebhard's older brother Conrad the Elder used in his struggle against the Frankish Babenberg as margrave in Thuringia, his younger brother Rudolf, as Bishop of Würzburg, and the family so that the dominant position in Swiss francs gives (see also: Babenberg feud ). Under Louis kingship and dominion, especially the Conradines Gebhard was as the third brother 903 of the title, Count in the Wetterau and from 904 Duke of Lorraine dux regni quod a multis Hlotharii dicitur ( " Duke of the kingdom, which is called by many the one Lothar ", meaning the Lotharii Regnum, later Lorraine), with whom he - was the ducal governor of the king in Lorraine - next to the Count Reginhar. He was consecrated in Wetzlar 897 a Salvator Church ( Church of the Redeemer ) in place of an earlier church on the later " Cathedral Hill ".

Gebhard was made in June 910 in the fight against Hungary near Augsburg.

Gebhard had two sons:

• Udo († 949) 914 Count in the Wetterau, 917 and 948 Count in the Rheingau, 918 Count in Lahngau, donates 914/915 the monastery of St. Mary in Wetzlar, where he was buried. ∞ NN of Vermandois, daughter of Count Heribert I. ( Carolingian )
• Hermann I († 948 ), Duke of Swabia 926, ∞ 926 regulations Linde († 958 ), widow of Duke Burchard II of Swabia, probably daughter of Count Eberhard II in Zürichgau ( Eberhardinger )