Giselbert Comté de Hainault Duc de Lorraine
- Born: Abt 880, Reims 160
- Marriage: Gerberge of Saxony Princess of the Germans Queen of Frane 160,755
- Died: 2 Oct 939, Rhineland, Prussia about age 59 160,174
 General Notes:
~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, Giselbert, Duke of Lorraine, son of Reginar I, Count of Hainaut and his wife Alberade, Dame of Hainaut, married Gerberga of Saxony, who married as her second husband Louis IV, d'Otre-Mer, King of France. 160
Noted events in his life were:
• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands.
Created dux in 928 by Heinrich I King of Germany, effectively creating him Giselbert Duke of Lotharingia. Liutprand names him "Gislebertum Lotharingorum ducem" when recording his marriage [Liudprandi Antapodosis IV.20, MGH SS III, p. 321]. Regino records that "Gisalbertus" was drowned in the Rhine in 939 [Reginonis Chronicon, Continuator Reginonis Trevirensis 939, MGH SS I, p. 618]
Giselbert married Gerberge of Saxony Princess of the Germans Queen of Frane, daughter of Heinrich I "the Fowler" King of Saxony Holy Roman Emperor and Mechtilde of Ringleheim 160.,755 (Gerberge of Saxony Princess of the Germans Queen of Frane was born about 913 in Saxony and died on 5 May 984 in Paris, Île-de-France, France 160,528.)
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