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Birth:          ABT  922 
Death:          28 Oct  998 

Notes
http://www.smokykin.com/ged/f004/f29/a0042915.htm
Lay Abbot of Echternach
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigfried,_Count_of_the_Ardennes
Sigfried (or Siegfried) (c.?922 – 28 October 998) was count of the Ardennes and the 
first person to rule Luxembourg. He was an advocate of the abbeys of Saint-Maximin 
de Trêves and Saint-Willibrord d'Echternach. He may have been the son of Count 
Palatine Wigeric of Lotharingia and Cunigunda. He was the founder of the House of 
Luxembourg, a branch of the House of Ardennes.
Lands[edit]

Siegfried held possessions from his father in Upper Lorraine. Although his title of 
"count" is not disputed, the extent of the lands he possessed remains unclear.[1]:19 
From 958, he sought to acquire the territories of Count Warner in the region of Bodeux 
near the Benedictine Abbey of Stavelot. However, the Abbot of Stavelot, Werinfried, 
reluctant to have an ambitious landowner as his neighbor, acquired the village of 
Bodeux himself in 959.[1]:19

As Siegfried's ambitions to expand towards the Meuse River had failed, and as he was 
unwilling to confront the powerful episcopal cities of Trier or Metz, which ruled out 
expanding towards the Moselle River, he turned his attention towards the Alzette 
valley.[1]:19

Acquisition of "Lucilinburhuc" (Luxembourg)[edit]

In the mid-10th century, Siegfried acquired the rocky promontory known as 
Lucilinburhuc and its immediate surrounding area, as well as usage rights for the river 
from the Abbey of Saint-Maximin in Trier; this was in exchange for land he owned near 
Feulen.[1]:19 The deed for the exchange was not drawn up until 987; although the 
plots of land involved were tiny, the transaction was evidently a significant one, for 
the document bears the seals of Bruno, archbishop of Cologne and brother of emperor 
Otto I; Henry, archbishop of Trier; and Frederick I, Duke of Upper Lorraine, who was 
Siegfried's brother.[1]:20

In 963 Siegfried built a stronghold, a castellum Lucilinburhuc, around which a town 
started to grow. The structure may have been a refurbishment of an existing building.
[1]:20 Siegfried gradually extended his territory towards the west, avoiding the Abbey's 
lands and those of the emperor.[1]:20

Though Siegfried used the title of count, the title "count of Luxembourg" was only 
applied to William some 150 years later.

Siegfried remained a loyal servant of the Holy Roman Emperors. At the death of Otto II 
in 983, Siegfried fought at the side of the widowed Empress consort and regent 
Theophanu against the ambitions of Lothair of France.[1]:20

Around 950, he married Hedwig of Nordgau (937–992), daughter of Eberhard IV of 
Nordgau. They had the following issue:
Henry I of Luxembourg
Siegfried, cited in 985
Frederick I, Count of Salm and Luxembourg, married Ermentrude of Gleiberg, daughter 
of Heribert I, Count of Gleiberg and Ermentrud (Imizi).
Dietrich II, bishop of Metz, 1006-1047
Adalberon, canon of Trier
Gislebert (d.1004), count in the Moselgau
Cunigunda, married Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
Eve, married Gerard, Count of Metz
Ermentrude, abbess
Luitgarde, married Arnulf, Count of Holland
a daughter, married Thietmar

Parents
OF LOTHARINGIA Wigerich (ABT  886 - BEF  923)
____ Cunigunde (ABT  893 - AFT  923)

Siblings
OF TRIES Luitgard (ABT  908 - )
VON ARDENNES Gozelin (Gonzelo) (ABT  911 - ABT  943)
____ Frederick (Friedrich) I "Ferry" ( 912 - 18 May  978)
____ Siegfried (ABT  922 - 28 Oct  998)

Marriage To OF NORDGAU Hedwig (ABT  927 - 13 Dec  992)
    m. ABT  950 

Notes

Parents
____ Eberhard IV (ABT  905 - 18 Dec  972)
OF TRIES Luitgard (ABT  908 - )

Children by OF NORDGAU Hedwig ABT  927 - 13 Dec  992
____ Eva (ABT  950 - AFT 1006)
OF LUXEMBOURG Frederick I (ABT  950 - 6 Oct 1019)
OF LUXEMBURG Luitgarde (Lutgard) (Lutgardis) (ABT  955 - AFT 1005)
____ Siegfried (ABT  960 - 1004)

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