FREDERIC (-Verdun 6 Jan 1022, bur Monastery St Guy). "Adalberonem…episcopum, Fredericum et Herimannum comites, Godefridum atque Gozelonem" are named (in order) as the five sons of "comiti Godefrido" and "Mathildis Saxoniæ comitissa" in the Gesta Episcoporum Virdunensium, which specifies that Frederic became a monk and made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem[1235]. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names (in order) "episcopum Virdunensem Alberonem, comitem Fridericum…comitem de Daburc Hermannum…et duos duces Godefridum et Gothelonem" as sons of "Godefridi Ardennensis" and his wife Mechtild, specifying that Frederic was "Sancti Vitonii monachum"[1236]. "Comite Frederico" is named as brother of Adalbero Bishop of Verdun in the Gesta Episcoporum Virdunensium, when recording that he repatriated Adalbero's body from Italy[1237]. He succeeded his father as Comte de Verdun. It is uncertain how long Frederic remained as count in Verdun as the charter dated 17 Aug 1156 of Emperor Friedrich I "Barbarossa" indicates that the county of Verdun was transferred to the bishop of Verdun during the reign of Emperor Otto III[1238]. However, a charter dated 1020, under which Heimo Bishop of Verdun confirmed an exchange of property, names "domni Frederici…comes nostre civitatis"[1239], which suggests that Frederic continued as count at least in part of the county. The charter dated [1020] of Abbot Richard demonstrates that Frederic must have resigned the county soon after, as it refers to "temporis dominus Fredericus qui comes Virdunensis civitatis fuerat" adding that he became a monk at Saint-Vanne[1240]. Frederic was also Comte de Castres, as shown by the charter dated 5 May 1005 under which Heinrich II King of Germany granted market rights at "Doncheria…in comitatu…Frederici comitis…Castricensis" to Saint-Médard de Soissons[1241]. The necrology of St Vaast records the death in 1022 of "Fridericus avunculus Balduini Barbati comitis Flandriæ, ortus ex Godefrido Barbato comite Arduennæ, Virduni, Bullonii et Mathilde comitissæ Saxoniæ", noting that he was "præpositus Sancti Vedasti" from 1001 until his death, and his burial "monasterium Sancti Widoni"[1242].
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[1235] Gesta Episcoporum Virdunensium, continuatio 9, MGH SS IV, pp. 48-9.
[1236] Chronica Albrici Monachi Trium Fontium 1005, MGH SS XXIII, p. 778.
[1237] Gesta Episcoporum Virdunensium, continuatio 6, MGH SS IV, p. 47.
[1238] D F I 149, p. 251.
[1239] Verdun Saint-Vanne (1898), XXVI, p. 426.
[1240] Verdun Saint-Vanne (1898), XXIX, p. 430.
[1241] D H II 96, p. 120.
[1242] Necrology of Arras St Vaast, p. 10.
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