Cunegonde de Francs

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 143:18, 155:21, Gunegonde, daughter of Ermentrude de Francs and granddaughter of Louis II, "the Stammerer," King of the Franks, married in 908, Wigeric, comté de Ardennes (Bidgau). She was the great grandmother of Gozelon, Duke of Lower Loraine. Cunegonde married as her second husband Richwin, comté de Verdun. ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Cunigonde.
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" [Miraeus (Le Mire), A. (1723) Opera diplomatica et historica, 2nd edn. (Louvain), Tome II, II, p. 805. ]. 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) [Vita Iohannes Gorziensis 105, MGH SS IV, p. 367]. 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" [Tabula Genealogica ex Codice Bibl. Regiæ Monacensis, MGH SS II, p. 314].

Cunegonde married Wigeric Graf von Bidgau in 908.¹⁶⁰ (Wigeric Graf von Bidgau died in 916-919 and was buried in Abbaye de Saint-Glossinde, Metz .)