Gerhard III (V) Duke of Upper Lorraine [47488] ¹²⁷

   Other names for Gerhard were Gérard I Duke of Lorraine, Gerard IV Duke of Alsace, Gerard of Alsace and Gerard of Chatenoy.

  General Notes:

http://www.thepeerage.com/p15067.htm#i150670


1. John Morby, Dynasties of the World: a chronological and genealogical handbook (Oxford, Oxfordshire, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 1989), page 128. Hereinafter cited as Dynasties of the World.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard,_Duke_of_Lorraine

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Metz#Counts_Palatine_of_Metz

  Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded: Count of Metz and Chatenois, 1047. was the count of Metz and Chatenois from 1047 to 1048, when his brother Duke Adalbert resigned them to him upon his becoming the Duke of Upper Lorraine.

• Acceded: Duke of Lorraine, 1948. Duke of Lorraine (1048-1070)

Gerhard married Hedwige of Namur [47489] [MRIN: 13683], daughter of Albert II Count of Namur [63276] and Regelindis of Lower-Lorraine [63277]. (Hedwige of Namur [47489] was born about 995 in Namur, Namur, Belgium and died in 1075-1080.)