Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg

Conrad I (c. 1040 – 8 August 1086) was count of Luxembourg (1059–1086), succeeding his father Giselbert of Luxembourg.[1]

Seal of Conrad I of Luxembourg. The Latin inscription on the border of the seal reads: CONRARDVS COMES DE LVCELEMBVRCH

He 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]

He founded the Orval Abbey in 1070 with Count Arnold I of Chiny and the Altmünster Abbey in 1083.[4]

Marriage and issue

Around 1075 he married Clementia (1060–1142), daughter of Duke William VII of Aquitaine and of Ermesinde.[5] They had:

• Matilda (1070 † ), married Godefroy (1075 † ), Count of Bleisgau
• Henry III († 1086), Count of Luxembourg[6]
• 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 executed by the Turks
• Ermesinde (1075 † 1143), married
  1. in 1096 to Albert II († 1098), count of Egisheim and of Dagsbourg,
  2. in 1101 to Godefroy (1067 † 1139), count of Namur.[7] They were parents of Henry IV of Luxembourg
• William I (1081 † 1131), Count of Luxembourg, married Matilda of Beichlingen[8]

References

1. Gades 1951, p. 55.
2. Gades 1951, p. 54-56.
3. Gades 1951, p. 57.
4. Gades 1951, p. 56.
5. Jackman 2012, p. 51,56.
6. Gades 1951, p. 58.
7. Jackman 2012, p. 65.
8. Gades 1951, p. 59.

Sources

• Gades, John A. (1951). Luxembourg in the Middle Ages. Brill.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Jackman, Donald C. (2012). The Kleeberg Fragment of the Gleiberg County. Editions Enplage.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)