Ardennengau

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The cross-border mountains of the Ardennes and the Eifel, bounded by the Maas, Semois, Moselle and Rhine
Arduenna silva between Meuse and Rhine around 200
The medieval districts around 1000

The Ardennengau (also: Ardennergau ) was a Franconian district in the area of ​​what is now the triangle of Belgium , Luxembourg and Germany . The Gau belonged to the Duchy of Lower Lorraine and ecclesiastically to the Liège Monastery .

Around the 7th century the Franks divided their empire into Gaue. The Ardennengau lay between the Eifelgau in the north and the Bidgau in the east.

In the 11th century , the districts lost their political importance.

Places in the Ardennengau

Amel , Ammeldingen , Auw near Prüm , Bleialf , Clerf , Consthum , Daleiden , Ettelbruck , Eschfeld , Folkendange , Lontzen , Malmedy , Manderfeld , Neuerburg , Niedersgegen , Oos , Prüm , Sankt Vith , Schönberg , Seiwerath , Walhorn , Weiswampach , Wiltz , Winterspelt

In 840 the county of Ardennes was established. This county ended around 1026 .

Counts

  • Adalhard († around 870)
  • Ottokar († after 880)
  • Liutfrid († after 895)
  • Wigerich († 922/923)
  • Gozelin († 948), Graf im Bidgau , son of Wigerich
  • Giselbert († 963), Graf im Ardennengau, Graf im Bidgau, son of Wigerich
  • Siegfried († 998), Count of Luxembourg, Count in Bidgau, probably son of Wigerich
  • Giselbert († 1006), Count in the Ardennengau, son of Siegfried
  • Gozelo (* 965, † around 1028), Count in the Ardennergau, grandson of Gozelin

See also

Individual evidence

  1. Heinrich Beyer, Leopold Eltester, Adam Goerz (Berab.): Document book on the history of the Middle Rhine territories now forming the Prussian administrative districts of Coblenz and Trier . Second volume. From the year 1169 to 1212. J. Hölscher, Koblenz 1865, p. XIX f . ( Digitized in the Google book search).