Adalbert (1000 – 11 November 1048 in

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) was the

Duke of Upper Lorraine The rulers of Lorraine have held different posts under different governments over different regions, since its creation as the kingdom of Lotharingia by the Treaty of Prüm, in 855. The first rulers of the newly established region were kings of ...

from 1047 until his death the next year. He was the first son of Gerhard IV, Count of Metz, and Gisela (Gisella), possibly a daughter of

Theodoric I, Duke of Upper Lorraine Theodoric I (c. 965 – between 11 April 1026 and 12 January 1027) was the count of Bar and duke of Upper Lorraine from 978 to his death. He was the son and successor of Frederick I and Beatrice, daughter of Hugh the Great, count of Paris, ...

. Gerard's father Adalbert had inherited the county of Metz from his brother Gerhard of the Moselle. Gothelo I,

Duke of Lower Lorraine The rulers of Lorraine have held different posts under different governments over different regions, since its creation as the kingdom of Lotharingia by the Treaty of Prüm, in 855. The first rulers of the newly established region were kings of ...

and

Upper Lorraine The Duchy of Lorraine (french: Lorraine ; german: Lothringen ), originally Upper Lorraine, was a duchy now included in the larger present-day region of Lorraine in northeastern France. Its capital was Nancy. It was founded in 959 following th ...

, died in 1044 and was succeeded by his son Godfrey III in Upper Lorraine but was refused Lower Lorraine. Irritated, Godfrey rebelled in that same year and devastated his suzerain's lands in Lower Lorraine. He was soon defeated and Adalbert named in his place in Upper Lorraine. Godfrey continued to fight for all Lorraine and Adalbert died in battle against him at Thuin on 11 November 1048. He had no known sons,In 1960, Szabolcs de Vajay hypothesized that Adalbert was count of

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and father-in-law of William VII of Aquitaine and

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. (''Annales de Bourgogne'', Vol 32 (1960) 258-261), and has been followed in this by Frederick Lewis Weis, ''Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700'', Line 144-22. However, de Vajay subsequently published an unqualified retraction of his hypothesis in "Parlons encore d'Etiennette" in ''Onomastioque et Parente dans l'Occident medieval'' (''Prosopographica et Genealogica'', no.3), K. S. B. Keats-Rohan and C. Settipani, eds. (2000), pp. 2-6. and

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immediately nominated his brother Gerhard to succeed him.

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