Gerberga of Lorraine (c. 925–995) was a lady of the highest European nobility who became the wife of
Megingoz of Guelders around 945.
She was a daughter of
Godfrey, Count Palatine of Lotharingia and Ermentrude, possibly the eldest daughter of
Charles the Simple
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. On her father's side she was a granddaughter of
Gerhard I of Metz
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and
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, daughter of
Otto I, Duke of Saxony.
She founded the
Vilich Abbey, northeast of
Bonn
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. She died in 995. Megingoz died shortly afterwards, after 998.
Children
With Megingoz, she had the following children:
*Godfrey (d. 977), killed at a young age in a campaign against Bohemia
*Irmtrud of Avalgau, who married
Herbert of Wetterau
*
Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich
*Alberada
*Bertada (d. 1000), abbess in
Cologne
920s births
995 deaths
Year of birth uncertain
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