Gerberga of Lorraine

Not to be confused with Gerberge of Lorraine.

Gerberga of Lorraine (c. 925-995) was a lady of the highest European nobility who became the wife of Megingoz of Guelders around 945.

She was a daughter of Godfrey, Count Palatine of Lotharingia and Ermentrude, possibly the eldest daughter of Charles the Simple. On her father's side she was a granddaughter of Gerhard I of Metz and Oda of Saxony, daughter of Otto I, Duke of Saxony.

She founded the Vilich Abbey, northeast of Bonn. She died in 995. Megingoz died shortly afterwards, after 998.

## Children

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With Megingoz, she had the following children:

* Godfrey (d. 977), killed at a young age in a campaign against Bohemia
* Irmtrud of Avalgau, who married Herbert of Wetterau
* Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich
* Alberada
* Bertada (d. 1000), abbess in Cologne

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