Dietrich of Metz (died 18 July 984) was

Bishop of Metz Metz ( , , lat, Divodurum Mediomatricorum, then ) is a city in northeast France located at the confluence of the Moselle and the Seille rivers. Metz is the prefecture of the Moselle department and the seat of the parliament of the Grand E ...

from 964 until his death. He succeeded Adalbero I (929–962) as bishop of Metz. He founded the abbey of St Vincent, Metz.He assembled a large number of relics for thi

/ref> He crowned

Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine Charles (953 – 22 June 992×995) was the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 977 until his death. Life Born at Reims in the summer of 953, Charles was the son of Louis IV of France and Gerberga of Saxony and the younger brother of King Lothair. He w ...

as King of France in

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in 978; Charles, unsuccessful in gaining recognition subsequently, was supported by Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor (a Saxon like Dietrich, and a relation).

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was another cousin, and a friend.

Sigebert of Gembloux Sigebert of Gembloux (Sigebertus Gemblacensis; 1030 – 5 October 1112) was a medieval author, known mainly as a pro-Imperial historian of a universal chronicle, opposed to the expansive papacy of Gregory VII and Pascal II. Early in his life ...

and

Alpert of Metz Alpert of Metz (died 1024) was a Benedictine chronicler of the eleventh century. His ''De diversitate temporum'' is a major source for the history of Western Europe (particularly for France, Western Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands) in the peri ...

wrote biographies of him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Dietrich 01 Of Metz 984 deaths Bishops of Metz 10th-century bishops in Lotharingia Year of birth unknown