Ardennengau
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
- ↑ 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).