Hermann II, Count Palatine
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Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine
Gothelo , called the Great, was the duke of Lower Lorraine from 1023 and of Upper Lorraine from 1033. He was also the margrave of Antwerp from 1005 and count of Verdun. Gothelo was the youngest son of Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, and Matilda Billung, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony...
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In 1080 he married Adelheid of Orlamunde-Weimar († 1100), widow of Adalbert II of Ballenstedt
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. She was a daughter of Otto of Orlamünde
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, count of Weimar and margrave of Meissen in Thuringia
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, and Adela of Brabant. Together they had two children who died already in 1085.
He is assumed to be the last Count Palatine of Lotharingia out of the Ezzonian
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dynasty. He was killed in a duel with Albert III of Namur, nearby Hermans castle in Dalhem
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(County of Limburg
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His widow married (3rd) with Henry of Laach
Henry of Laach
Henry of Laach was the first count palatine of the Rhine . Henry was the son of Herman I, count of Gleiberg. Henry was a follower of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor...
, count in the Mayfeldgau, and who became the first count palatine of the Rhine between 1085/1087.