Gebhard (Lorraine)

Gebhard (* 888 attested; † in June 910 , probably on the 22nd, died near Augsburg ) from the Conradin family was Duke of Lorraine from 903 until his death. His father was Udo in Lahngau .

Gebhard is mentioned in 897 and 906 as a count in the upper Rheingau , in 909 as a count in the Wetterau . He was a member of one of the most powerful families in the empire at the time, who, as the (only) relatives of the emperor Arnulf and his underage son, King Ludwig the child , played a central role at the change from the 9th to the 10th century.

Arnulf had installed Gebhard's older brother Konrad the Elder as margrave in Thuringia in his fight against the Franconian Babenbergs , his younger brother Rudolf as Bishop of Würzburg , and thus given the family the predominant position in Franconia (see also: Babenberg feud ). Under Ludwig's kingship and the rule of the Conradines in particular, Gebhard became the third brother in 903 the title, Count in the Wetterau and from 904 Duke of Lorraine dux regni quod a multis Hlotharii dicitur ("Duke of the kingdom, which is called by many that Lothar" , is meant the Lotharii Regnum, the later Lorraine), with whom he was - next to Count Reginhar - the ducal governor of the king in Lorraine . He had a Salvatorkirche (Church of the Redeemer) consecrated in Wetzlar in 897 in place of a previous church on the later "Domberg".

Gebhard fell in June 910 fighting the Hungarians near Augsburg .

Gebhard had two sons:

• Udo († 949) 914 Graf in the Wetterau , 917 and 948 Graf in Rheingau , 918 Graf in Lahngau , founded the monastery of St. Maria in Wetzlar in 914/915 , where he was buried. ⚭ NN von Vermandois , daughter of Count Heribert I ( Carolingian )
• Hermann I († 949), 926 Duke of Swabia , ⚭ 926 Regelinde († 958), widow of Duke Burchard II of Swabia, probably daughter of Count Eberhard II in Zürichgau ( Eberhardinger )

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Gebhard von Lothringen at Genealogy Bohrer
2. ↑ Gebhard von Lothringen in "Genealogy Middle Ages"
3. ↑ The house of the Konradines in "Genealogy Middle Ages"

predecessor	Office	successor
Ludwig the child	Duke of Lorraine around 903 / 904–910	Reginhar