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Wigeric, Count Of Bidgau




At the death of Louis The Child , the Lotharingians rejected the suzerainty of Conrad I and elected Charles of France as their king. At the time, the military authority in Lotharingia was assigned to Count Reginar I Of Mons , but at his death it fell to Wigeric, who was called therefore count ''palatine'', exercising the royal authority in the province.

Wigeric founded the monastery of Hastière , of which he also assumed the advocacy. He married Cunigunda, daughter of Ermentrude and granddaughter of Louis II Of France . Their children were:


Some genealogies record two other children, Henry and Liutgard, who were in fact son and daughter of another Wigeric, son of Roric, a contemporary living in the shire of Bidgau-Trier.


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