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Birth:          ABT  970 
Death:          6 Jan 1022 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick,_Count_of_Verdun
Frederick (Frédéric) (ca. 970-6 January 1022), Count of Verdun (988-1022), Count of 
Castres (1000-1022), and Provost of Saint-Vaast, was part of the Ardennes-Verdun 
dynasty. He was the eldest son of Godfrey I the Prisoner, Count of Verdun, and 
Matilda, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony, of the Billung family, a widow of 
Baldwin III of Flanders.

Frederick was among those captured along with his father in 985 when Lothair of 
France attacked Verdun in 985. He was released in 987 by family ally Hugh Capet, 
then Duke of the Franks (dux et princeps Francorum). In 988, Frederick worked to 
bring the body of his brother Adalberon, Bishop of Verdun, who died in Italy, to be 
buried in the Verdun Cathedral.

It is uncertain how long Frederic remained as Count in Verdun as the charter dated 17 
Aug 1156 of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa indicates that the County of Verdun was 
transferred to the Bishop of Verdun during the reign of Emperor Otto III. However, a 
charter dated 1020, under which Haimont, Bishop of Verdun, confirmed an exchange 
of property, names domni Frederici…comes nostre civitatis, which suggests that 
Frederic continued as count at least in part of the county. A 1020 charter of Abbot 
Richard demonstrates that Frederick must have resigned the countship soon after, as 
it refers to temporis dominus Fredericus qui comes Virdunensis civitatis fuerat.

Frederick was also Count of Castres, as shown by the charter dated 5 May 1005 under 
which Henry II, then King of Germany, granted market rights at Doncheria…in 
comitatu…Frederici comitis…Castricensis to the Abbey Saint-Médard de Soissons.

It is not known who his wife or wives were. He apparently had a daughter Sophie (b. 
ca 1010) who married Louis II, Count of Chiny. Interestingly, Louis' father, a successor 
of Frederick’s as count, was murdered by Frederick’s brother Gothelo. Frederick's 
nephew Godfrey the Bearded was then appointed Count of Verdun.

In 1020, near the end of his life, Frederick gave up his title and became a monk at 
Saint-Vanne Abbey. He was succeeded as Count of Verdun by his brother Herman. It 
is unclear who, if anyone, succeeded him as Count of Castres.

Parents
____ Godfrey (Gottfried) "the Captive" (ABT  942 - AFT 3 Sep 1005)
OF SAXONY Maud (Mathilde) (ABT  943 - 25 May 1008)

Siblings
____ Gerberge (ABT  965 - )
____ Gothelo (Gonzelon) (Gozelo) I (ABT  967 - 19 Apr 1044)
____ Frederick (ABT  970 - 6 Jan 1022)

Marriage To ----- ----- ()
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Children by ----- ----- 
OF VERDUN Sophia "Countess of Bricy" (ABT 1015 - 1078)

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