Wigeric Count of Bidgau ^{1 2 3}

   Other names for Wigeric were Wideric of Lotharingia, Count of the Bidgau, Wigeric of Lotharingia and Wigerich Count of Trier and Ardennes.

  Research Notes:

First husband of Cunigonde. Founder of the house of Ardennes.

From Wikipedia - Wigeric of Lotharingia :

Wigeric or Wideric (French : Wigéric or Wéderic) (died before 923 ) was the count of the Bidgau (pagus Bedensis) and held the rights of a count within the city of Trier . He received also the advocacy of the abbey of Saint Rumbold's at Mechelen from Charles III of France . From 915 or 916 he was the count palatine of Lotharingia . He was the founder of the House of Ardennes .

At the death of Louis the Child , the Lotharingians rejected the suzerainty of Conrad I and elected Charles of France as their king. At the time, the military authority in Lotharingia was assigned to Count Reginar I of Hainaut (d. 915), but at his death it fell to Wigeric, who became count palatine, exercising as such the military authority in Lotharingia.

Wigeric founded the monastery of Hastière , of which he also assumed the advocacy. He married Cunigunda, daughter of Ermentrude and granddaughter of Louis II of France . Their children were:
Frederick (d.978 ), count of Bar , the duke of Upper Lorraine from 959
Adalberon (d.962 ), bishop of Metz
Gilbert (d.964 ), count in the Ardennes
Sigebert (fl.c.942 )
Gozlin (d.942 ), count of Bidgau, married Uda of Metz, father of:
Godfrey the Prisoner
Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims
Siegfried , count of Luxembourg

Some genealogies record two other children, Henry and Liutgard, who were in fact son and daughter of another Wigeric, son of Roric, a contemporary living in the shire of Bidgau-Trier.

  Death Notes:

May have died by 919.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Living, 899-916.

• Count Palatine: of Lotharingia, 916-923.

Wigeric married Cunigonde, daughter of Unknown and Ermentrude of France, between 907 and 909. (Cunigonde was born about 890 in <Aachen, Rheinland, Prussia (Germany)> and died after 923.)