Gerberge of Lorraine [SEP] mother
Gerberge of Lorraine
Gerberge of Lorraine (ca. 935-978) was the daughter of Giselbert, Duke of Lorraine, and Gerberga of Saxony, daughter of Henry I the Fowler, King of Germany. She was a descendant of Charlemagne through both her parents. Gerberge died sometime after 7 September 0978.
In or before 954, she married Adalbert I of Vermandois. Their children were:
- Herbert III of Vermandois
- Otto of Vermandois, perhaps identical to Otto I, Count of Chiny (–)
, which is indeed the case, as his mother is Gerberge of Lorraine, niece of Emperor Otto I (her mother being daughter to Henry the Fowler). He was reported as a quarrelsome lord who threatened Hainaut and Cambrésis (the region around Cambrai).
In 971, an Otto erected a fortress in Warcq, in the Ardennes, and attacked his neighbors, including Adalbero, Archbishop of Reims. He is mentioned as having imperial ancestry. This and a number of other facts prompted the historian Léon Vanderkindere to hypothesize