Conrad I of Luxembourg
Count of Luxembourg, r. 1059–1086
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Conrad I (c. 1040 – 8 August 1086) was Count of Luxembourg (1059–1086), succeeding his father, Giselbert.[1]
Conrad was embroiled in an argument with the Archbishop of Trier as to the abbaye Saint-Maximin in Trier which he had avowed.[2] The archbishop excommunicated him, and Conrad had to make honourable amends and set out on pilgrimage for Jerusalem to have his excommunication lifted.[2] He died in Italy on the return journey.[3]
Conrad founded the Orval Abbey in 1070 with Count Arnold I of Chiny and the Altmünster Abbey in 1083.[4]
His nephew was Hézelon de Liège, canon and architect of the church of Cluny Abbey (Cluny III).[5]
Marriage and issue
Around 1075, Conrad married Clementia (1048–1142), daughter of Duke William VII of Aquitaine and of Ermesinde.[6] They had:
- Matilda (1070 † ), married Godefroy (1075 † ), Count of Bleisgau
- Henry III († 1096), Count of Luxembourg[7]
- Rudolph († 1099), abbot of Saint-Vannes at Verdun
- Conrad, cité en 1080
- Adalbero, (d. 1098 in Antioch), Archdeacon of Metz, travelled to the Holy Land as part of the army of Godfrey of Bouillon, where he was killed by the Turks[8]
- Ermesinde (1075 † 1143), married
- in 1096 to Albert II († 1098), Count of Egisheim and of Dagsbourg,
- in 1101 to Godefroy (1067 † 1139), Count of Namur.[9] They were parents of Henry IV of Luxembourg
- William I (1081 † 1131), Count of Luxembourg, married Matilda of Beichlingen[10]
