Mathieu I Duc de Lorraine

  Noted events in his life were:

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Mathieu I de Lorraine from Wikipédia in French.

Mathieu I succeeded his father Simon Ier de Lorraine. Mathieu strengthen ties between Lorraine and the Holy Roman Empire, by marrying Judith Hohenstaufen, also called Berthe (1123-1195), niece of Emperor Conrad III and sister of the future Emperor Frederick Barbarossa. Their children were:

• Alix or Adélais, wife of Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy
• Simon II, Duke of Lorraine
• Judith, wife in 1170 of Stephen I, count of Auxonne and Traves: parents of Stephen II, hence the succession of the Counts of Burgundy
• Ferry I Bitche, Duke of Lorraine
• Mathieu de Lorraine, Count of Toul
• Thierry, bishop of Metz from 1174 to 1179

Mathieu married Bertha of Swabia, daughter of Friedrich von Staufen and Judith of Bavaria. (Bertha of Swabia died in 1195.)