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In 1053, his first wife Doda having died, Godfrey remarried Beatrice of Bar, the widow of Boniface III of Tuscany and mother of Matilda, Boniface's heir. Henry arrested Beatrice and her young son Frederick and imprisoned her in Germany, separate from either husband or son, who died within days.
Godfrey I (Dutch: Godfried, c. 1060 – 25 January 1139), called the Bearded, the Courageous, or the Great, was the Landgrave of Brabant, Count of Brussels and Leuven (Louvain) from 1095 to his death and Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1106 to 1129. He was also Margrave of Antwerp from 1106 to his death.
Godfrey of Bouillon was born around 1060, second son of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne and Ida, daughter of the Lotharingian duke Godfrey the Bearded and his first wife, Doda. [4] He was probably born in Boulogne-sur-Mer, although one 13th-century chronicler cites Baisy, a town in what is now Walloon Brabant, Belgium. [5]
The name of Gothelo's wife is not known, the name Barbe de Lebarten (and in fact her entire ancestry), being a spurious concoction of later genealogists. [4] He had the following children: Godfrey the Bearded, duke of Lower Lorraine [2] Gothelo, duke of Lower Lorraine [2] Frederick, later Pope Stephen IX [2] Regilinda, married Albert II, Count ...
In May 1069, as Godfrey the Bearded lay dying in Verdun, Beatrice and Matilda hastened to reach Lorraine, anxious to ensure a smooth transition of power. Matilda was present at her stepfather's deathbed, and on that occasion she is for the first time clearly mentioned as the wife of her stepbrother. [ 32 ]
Henry IV and his first wife, Bertha of Savoy (11th-century painting) Henry's first wife, Bertha of Savoy, was a year younger than he. [373] Until 5 August 1068, Henry regularly mentioned her as "consort of our kingdom and our marriage-bed" in his diplomas. [374] Her disappearance from the diplomas was the sign of a growing disaffection. [375]
In 1018, Godfrey and Gerhard were forced to make peace by the emperor, [17] and Balderic was also reconciled with the emperor, [18] but Godfrey II was then crushingly defeated and captured later that year when leading imperial forces against another rebel, Dirk III, Count of Holland, whose mother, like Gerhard's wife, was a sister of the ...
1106–1128: Godfrey I, (son of Henry II) 1128–1141: Godfrey II, (son of Godfrey I) 1141–1190: Godfrey III, (son of Godrey II) From 1183 onwards, the titles of Count of Louvain, Count of Brussels and Landgrave of Brabant were merged in the title of Duke of Brabant and used as appanages