Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine

Godfrey I (* 940/945, † 964 Summer in Rome) from the family of Matfriede was 958 in Hainault Count, 962 Count in Gillgau and 959-964 Duke of Lower Lorraine. He was the eldest son of the Count Palatine Gottfried of Lorraine, Count of Jülichgau ( † 1 June after 949 ) and the Ermentrud of France ( * 908/916 ), a daughter of King Charles the Simple of the family of the Carolingians. Father's side he was related to the prevailing Liudolfingern.

Archbishop Brun of the Archdiocese of Cologne ( 953-965 ), the brother of Otto I and educator and friend Gottfried, put this - probably as a successor to his father, the Count Palatine - as his deputy in Lorraine, where the year of taking office is to clarify. In June 958 Gottfried received the possessions of the deposed Count Reginar III. awarded. A year later he received the title of duke of Lower Lorraine.

Gottfried Otto I accompanied on his expedition to Italy, where he in the summer of 964 - as well as Archbishop Henry I of Trier and many others - after the siege and capture of the city died of a plague, leaving no descendants.

Gottfried may have not reached a great age, since he was raised by the Archbishop Brun, who took himself born in 925 and his ecclesiastical office in the year 953; the birth of Godfrey 940-945 thus appears likely.