Verdun county

The County of Verdun (formerly also County of Wirtten) was a medieval county in Lorraine that was immediately part of the empire .

Counts of Verdun from the Wigeriche family included:

• Richwin († 923) Count of Verdun
• Otto († 944) his son, Count of Verdun, Duke of Lorraine from 940
• Gottfried the Prisoner (* 935/940, † April 3rd / 4th after 995), since 960/965 Count of Verdun, from 969 Margrave of Ename and Antwerp , 959/960 Count in Bidgau and Methingau , 958–978 Count im Hainaut , as well as Vogt of Saint Hubert and Mouzon (the father of the dukes Gottfried II and Gozelo I of Lower Lorraine )
• Friedrich († January 6, 1022), his son, Count of Verdun, monk in Saint Vanne
• Hermann von Eenham († May 29, 1029), his brother, Count of Verdun, a monk in Saint Vanne
• Gottfried III. the bearded , stepfather and father-in-law of Mathilde von Tuszien

literature

• Gerhard Köbler : Historical lexicon of the German countries. The German territories from the Middle Ages to the present. 7th, completely revised edition. CH Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-54986-1 .