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Personal data Kunigunde van de Ardennen 

• She was born about 895.Source 1
• A child of Ermentrudis
• This information was last updated on August 18, 2014.

Household of Kunigunde van de Ardennen

(1) She is married to Richwin van Verdun.

They got married

(2) She is married to Wigerik van Lotharingen.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Gozelo van de Ardennen  < 915-± 942 
2. Frederik I van Lotharingen  ????-978 

Child(ren):

1. Siegfried van Luxemburg  ????-± 998 

Notes about Kunigunde van de Ardennen

CUNIGONDE ([895]-after [930/40]). Her parentage and first marriage are indicated by the charter dated to [915] under which Charles III “le Simple” King of the West Franks donated the abbeys of Hastières and Saint-Rombaut to Liège Saint-Lambert, granting the enjoyment for life to "comes Windricus...uxoris eius...Cunegundis et unius filiorum ipsorum...nostri nepotis Adelberonis"[316]. Her first and second marriages are confirmed by the Vita Iohannis Gorziensis which names "episcopo…Adalberone" (her son by her first husband) and "vitrico…eius Richizone" (her second husband)[317]. Her parentage is confirmed more specifically because the mother of Siegfried Count of Luxembourg is named "Cynigund", daughter of "Irmindrud" daughter of Louis II "le Bègue" King of the West Franks, in an 11th century genealogy which traces the ancestry of Siegfried's daughter Empress Kunigund[318]. The family relationship between Count Siegfried and the descendants of Wigerich [III] is confirmed by a reference in one of Gerbert's letters to Siegfried being patruus of the Wigerich's grandson Gozelo[319]. However, Siegfried’s birth is estimated to [930/40] which indicates that he could not have been the son either of Wigerich or Cunigonde's second husband Richwin. The only explanation which is consistent with all the sources is that Cunigonde married for a third time after the death of her second husband and that she was the mother of Siegfried by her third marriage. This necessitates a somewhat broad interpretation of “patruus” in Gerbert. The identity of her supposed third husband has not been ascertained. m firstly ([907/09]) WIGERICH [III] Comte d’Ardenne, son of --- (-[19 Jan 916/919], bur Abbaye de Saint-Glossinde, Metz). m secondly ([916/19]) as his second wife, RICHWIN [Richizo] Comte [de Verdun], son of --- (-murdered 923). [m thirdly ---, son of ---.]

[316] Miraeus (Le Mire), A. (1723) Opera diplomatica et historica, 2nd edn. (Louvain), Tome II, II, p. 805.
[317] Vita Iohannes Gorziensis 105, MGH SS IV, p. 367.
[318] Tabula Genealogica ex Codice Bibl. Regiæ Monacensis, MGH SS II, p. 314.
[319] Havet, J. (ed.) (1889) Lettres de Gerbert 983-997 (Paris), 52, p. 48, and Epistola XXXV, RHGF IX, p. 283.

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--- . The identity of Cunigonde´s supposed third husband, the father of Siegfried, has not been ascertained. The name of Siegfried´s oldest son suggests that he may have been called Heinrich. [m as her third husband, CUNIGONDE, widow firstly of WIGERICH [III] Comte d´Ardenne and secondly of RICHWIN [Richizo] Comte [de Verdun], daughter of --- & his wife Ermentrud --- ([895]-after [930/40]). Her parentage and first marriage are indicated by the charter dated to [915] under which Charles III “le Simple” King of the West Franks donated the abbeys of Hastières and Saint-Rombaut to Liège Saint-Lambert, granting the enjoyment for life to "comes Windricus...uxoris eius...Cunegundis et unius filiorum ipsorum...nostri nepotis Adelberonis"[8]. Her first and second marriages are confirmed by the Vita Iohannis Gorziensis which names "episcopo…Adalberone" (her son by her first husband) and "vitrico…eius Richizone" (her second husband)[9]. Her parentage is confirmed more specifically because the mother of Siegfried Count of Luxembourg is named "Cynigund", daughter of "Irmindrud" daughter of Louis II "le Bègue" King of the West Franks, in an 11th century genealogy which traces the ancestry of Siegfried's daughter Empress Kunigunde[10]. The family relationship between Count Siegfried and the descendants of Wigerich [III] is confirmed by a reference in one of Gerbert's letters to Siegfried being patruus of the Wigerich's grandson Gozelo[11]. However, Siegfried´s birth is estimated to [930/40] which indicates that he could not have been the son either of Wigerich or of Cunigonde's second husband Richwin. The only explanation which is consistent with all the sources is that Cunigonde married for a third time after the death of her second husband and that she was the mother of Siegfried by her third marriage. This necessitates a somewhat broad interpretation of “patruus” in Gerbert. The identity of her supposed third husband has not been ascertained.]

[8] Miraeus (Le Mire), A. (1723) Opera diplomatica et historica, 2nd edn. (Louvain), Tome II, II, p. 805.
[9] Vita Iohannes Gorziensis 105, MGH SS IV, p. 367.
[10] Tabula Genealogica ex Codice Bibl. Regiæ Monacensis, MGH SS II, p. 314.
[11] Havet, J. (ed.) (1889) Lettres de Gerbert 983-997 (Paris) (“Gerbert”), 52, p. 48, and Epistola XXXV, RHGF IX, p. 283.

http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LUXEMBOURG.htm#_Toc359916566

Cunegundis, geb. ca. 890/95, tr. Richwin van Verdun (ouders van Siegfried van Luxemburg), en tr. Wigeric van Aachen.

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