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Birth:          ABT  850 
Death:          Jun  885 
Cause of Death: murdered

Notes
of Dorestad and Rustringen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfrid,_Duke_of_Frisia
Godfrid, Godafrid, Gudfrid, or Gottfrid (Old Norse: Guğfriğ; murdered June 885) was a 
Danish Viking leader of the late ninth century. He had probably been with the Great 
Heathen Army, descended on the continent, and became a vassal of the emperor 
Charles the Fat, controlling most of Frisia between 882 and 885.

In 880, Godfrid ravaged Flanders using Ghent as his base. In 882, Godfrid ravaged 
Lotharingia and the cities of Maastricht, Liège, Stavelot, Prüm, Cologne, and Koblenz 
were devastated. After the Siege of Asselt forced him to come to terms, Godfrid was 
granted the Kennemerland, which had formerly been ruled by Rorik of Dorestad, as a 
vassal of Charles, according to the Annales Fuldenses. Godfrid swore oaths to Charles 
promising never to again lay waste his kingdom and accepted Christianity and baptism, 
at which Charles stood as his godfather. In return, Charles appointed him Duke of 
Frisia and gave him Gisela, daughter of Lothair II, as his wife.

However, Godfrid did nothing against a Danish raid which pillaged large parts of the 
Low Countries. In 885, he was summoned to Lobith for a meeting after being accused 
of complicity with Hugh, Duke of Alsace, in an insurrection. In an act of treachery he 
was killed by a group of Frisian and Saxon nobles at the connivance of Henry of 
Franconia. The local count Gerulf took over the West Frisian coastline from the 
Danish after the murder.

This Godfrid has sometimes been confused with Godfrid Haraldsson.

Parents
____ Harold "Klak" (ABT  800 -  884)
HELGISDOTTIR Sigrid (ABT  820 - )

Siblings
____ Godefrid (ABT  850 - Jun  885)
DANEBOD Thyre (ABT  875 - ABT  935)

Marriage To OF LORRAINE Gisela (ABT  863 - BEF 26 Oct  907)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
____ Lothar (Lothaire) II "the Saxon" ( 827 - 8 Aug  869)
____ Waldrada (ABT  830 - AFT  868)

Children by OF LORRAINE Gisela ABT  863 - BEF 26 Oct  907
VON FRIESLAND Reginhilde (Ragnhildis Ludmilla) (ABT  879 - ABT  917)

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