Gebhard of Lahngau ( 860/868 – 22 June 910), of the

Conradine The Conradines or Conradiner were a dynasty of Franconian counts and dukes in the 8th to 11th Century, named after Duke Conrad the Elder and his son King Conrad I of Germany. History The family is first mentioned in 832, with Count Gebhard in ...

dynasty, son of Odo (died 879), count of

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gau, and Judith, was himself count of

Wetterau The Wetterau is a fertile undulating tract, watered by the Wetter, a tributary of the Nidda River, in the western German state of Hesse, between the hilly province Oberhessen and the north-western Taunus mountains. Bettina von Arnim writes of ...

(909–910) and

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(897–906) and then duke of Lotharingia (Lorraine). In 903, Louis the Child,

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, gave him the government of Lotharingia with the title of duke (''Kebehart dux regni quod a multis Hlotharii dicitur''). Gebhard died in battle against the

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, somewhere by

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. With his wife Ida, he had two children: * Herman (died 949),

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* Odo (died 949), count of Wetterau (from 914), Lahngau (from 918), and Rheingau (from 917), married Cunigunda, daughter of

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* * * , - Dukes of Lorraine Military personnel killed in action Conradines 860s births 910 deaths Year of birth uncertain {{Noble-stub