Conrad I (c. 1040 – 8 August 1086) was

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(1059–1086), succeeding his father, Giselbert. Conrad was embroiled in an argument with the

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to have his excommunication lifted. He died in Italy on the return journey. Conrad founded the

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in 1070 with Count Arnold I of Chiny and the Altmünster Abbey in 1083. His nephew was Hézelon de Liège,

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and architect of the church of

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().

Marriage and issue

Around 1075, Conrad married

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(1048–1142), daughter of Duke

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and of Ermesinde. They had: * Matilda (1070 † ), married Godefroy (1075 † ), Count of Bleisgau * Henry III († 1096), Count of Luxembourg * Rudolph († 1099), abbot of Saint-Vannes at Verdun * Conrad, cité en 1080 * Adalbero, (d. 1098 in

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), Archdeacon of Metz, travelled to the Holy Land as part of the army of Godfrey of Bouillon, where he was killed by the Turks * Ermesinde (1075 † 1143), married *# in 1096 to Albert II († 1098), Count of Egisheim and of Dagsbourg, *# in 1101 to Godefroy (1067 † 1139), Count of Namur. They were parents of Henry IV of Luxembourg *

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(1081 † 1131), Count of Luxembourg, married Matilda of Beichlingen

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