Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
Giselbert of Lorraine (* 890, † October 2 939) was from 928 Duke of Lorraine.
Life
Giselberts father was Reginar I. of Hainault, who was a son Giselberts, Count in Maasgau, and an unnamed daughter of Emperor Lothar I.. From Giselberts brother Reginar II the later Counts of Hainaut, Count of Flanders, Count of Louvain, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Brabant and the Landgrave of Hesse came from. The Giselberts family is called Reginare.
His father Reginar I had extensive self goods in Hainaut, Haspengau and in the Ardennes. Since 894/895 he fought the king of Lorraine Zwentibold, who was an illegitimate son of Arnulf of Carinthia and has been used and supported by this as king of Lorraine. After the death of Arnulf of Carinthia the Lorraine opposition realized under the leadership Reginars I. the minor, the East Frankish king Louis the Child on.
In the year 911 the infamous Lorraine Konrad I. East Frankish king was. Reginar I. urged the West Frankish king Charles III. to the simple, to come to Lorraine. Charles was soon afterwards elected King of Lorraine and Reginar I, who died just 915, was given the title marchio. His earldom and fiefs were inherited by his son Giselbert. Charles the Simple but sat in the Carolingian heartland Lorraine Wigerich as a Count Palatine.
928 was Giselbert Duke of Lorraine and married in the same year Gerberga, the eldest daughter of Henry I and Matilda. From this marriage came from Heinrich and Gerberga. Henry was a minor, of 940 until his death in 944 Duke of Lorraine. Giselberts daughter Gerberga (* probably 935; † after September 7 978) 949 married Adalbert I ( Albert), Count of Vermandois, a son Hereward II.
During the reign of Henry I. to Giselbert behaved loyal. However, 939 Giselbert wanted to join the new West Frankish king Louis IV ( Carolingian ). He joined the rebellion of Henry, the younger brother of Otto I, and Eberhard of Franconia on. After the Battle of Andernach on October 2, 939 Giselbert lost in the battle of the Rhine. Ludwig IV reached the battlefield too late and could not intervene.
On the retreat took Ludwig IV Giselberts widow Gerberga with and married her 940 From this marriage came from the later West Frankish King Lothar and Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine ( an East Frankish / German fief ). The Reginare ( the descendants Reginars II ) lost their influence in Lorraine. Only after the death of the last male Carolingian, Otto of Lower Lorraine ( Charles' son ), in the year 1012 they gained their power back in Lower Lorraine.
Richer, a monk of Saint Remy, characterized Giselbert of Lorraine as follows: He is bold, fickle, prodigal, hungry for foreign good and quarrelsome. He speaks ambiguously, he asks awkward, he responds ambiguously, he often liked creates confusion and resentment.