# County of Verdun
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{{Short description|Medieval county}}
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The '''County of Verdun''' was a sovereign medieval county in the [Duchy of Lower Lorraine](/source/Duchy_of_Lower_Lorraine).
==County==
The rulers of the sovereign County of Verdun styled themselves as Counts by the grace of God.[{{Cite book|last1=Jan|first1=Régine Le|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8vwhSwhWogC&q=gratia+dei|title=Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siècle): essai d'anthropologie sociale|last2=LeJan|first2=Régine|date=1995|publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne|isbn=978-2-85944-268-2|language=fr}}][{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v8vwhSwhWogC&q=gratia+dei|title=Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe-Xe siècle): essai d'anthropologie sociale|first=Régine Le|last=Jan|date=May 28, 1995|publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne|accessdate=May 28, 2024|via=Google Books}}] The small country was located near Lower Lotharingia within the [Holy Roman Empire](/source/Holy_Roman_Empire).{{sfn|Murray|2000|p=12}} The [Prince-Bishopric of Verdun](/source/Prince-Bishopric_of_Verdun) bordered on it from the east.{{sfn|Murray|2000|p=12}} The [Forest of Argonne](/source/Forest_of_Argonne) formed the western border of the county, but it also included the fortresses at [Montfaucon-d'Argonne](/source/Montfaucon-d'Argonne) and [Vienne-le-Château](/source/Vienne-le-Ch%C3%A2teau).{{sfn|Murray|2000|p=12}} According to an imperial diploma issued in 1156, Bishop Haimo of Verdun received the right to appoint counts, but the counts from the [Ardennes-Bouillon dynasty](/source/Ardennes-Bouillon_dynasty) made the office hereditary by the end of the 10th century.{{sfn|Murray|2000|pp=12-13}}
==List of counts==
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*to 923 [Ricwin](/source/Ricwin%2C_Count_of_Verdun), married first to the daughter of [Engelram](/source/Engelram%2C_Chamberlain_of_France), Chamberlain to [Charles the Bald](/source/Charles_the_Bald), and second to [Cunigunda](/source/Cunigunda_of_France), widow of [Wigeric, Count of Bidgau](/source/Wigeric%2C_Count_of_Bidgau)
*923–944 [Otto](/source/Otto%2C_Duke_of_Lorraine), also [duke of Lorraine](/source/duke_of_Lorraine) from 940, son of Ricwin by his first marriage
*944–963 [Raoul](/source/Rudolfe_II%2C_Count_of_Ivois), also [Count of Ivois](/source/Counts_of_Chiny) (as Rudolfe II)
*963–1002 [Godfrey I](/source/Godfrey_I%2C_Count_of_Verdun), called ''the Prisoner'', son of [Gothelo, Count of Bidgau](/source/Gozlin%2C_Count_of_Bidgau_and_Methingau), son of Wigeric and Cunigunda, and Uda of Metz; married Matilda, daughter of [Herman, Duke of Saxony](/source/Hermann%2C_Duke_of_Saxony)
*1002–1012 [Godfrey II](/source/Godfrey_II%2C_Duke_of_Lower_Lorraine), son of previous, [duke of Lower Lorraine](/source/duke_of_Lower_Lorraine) from 1012 to his death in 1023
*1012–1022 [Frederick](/source/Frederick%2C_Count_of_Verdun), brother of previous
*1022–1024 [Herman](/source/Herman%2C_Count_of_Verdun) (d.1029), brother of previous, retired to monastery{{cn|date=July 2021}}
*1024–1025 [Louis](/source/Louis%2C_Count_of_Verdun), also count of [Chiny](/source/Chiny), received the county from Bishop Raimbert, killed by [Gothelo](/source/Gothelo_I%2C_Duke_of_Lorraine), brother of Herman, who took the city and gave it as an appanage to Godfrey, his son
*1025–1069 [Godfrey III](/source/Godfrey_III%2C_Duke_of_Lower_Lorraine), called ''the Bearded'', also [duke of Upper Lorraine](/source/duke_of_Upper_Lorraine) from 1044 and [Lower Lorraine](/source/Lower_Lorraine) from 1065, he was deprived of his possessions, Verdun included, by the [Emperor Henry III](/source/Emperor_Henry_III), but he was reinstated and spent his life vacillating between rebellion and peace
*1069–1076 [Godfrey IV](/source/Godfrey_IV%2C_Duke_of_Lower_Lorraine), called ''the Hunchback'', son of previous, also [duke of Lower Lorraine](/source/duke_of_Lower_Lorraine)
*1076–1086 [Matilda of Tuscany](/source/Matilda_of_Tuscany), called ''la Gran Contessa'', widow of previous, also [marquise of Tuscany](/source/Rulers_of_Tuscany)
*1086–1095 [Godfrey V](/source/Godfrey_of_Bouillon) (d.1100), nephew of Godfrey IV, also [duke of Lower Lorraine](/source/duke_of_Lower_Lorraine) from 1089 and [defender of the Holy Sepulchre](/source/Kings_of_Jerusalem) from 1099
**''unknown''
*1100–1105 [Theodoric](/source/Thierry_II_of_Bar), also [count of Montbéliard and Bar](/source/Count_of_Bar)
*1105–1134 [Reginald](/source/Renaud_I_of_Bar) (d.1149), called ''le Borgne'', son of previous, also [count of Montbéliard and Bar](/source/Count_of_Bar)
In 1134, the bishop deposed Reginald and reattached the county to the episcopal demesne.
==References==
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==Sources==
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* {{cite book |last=Murray |first=Alan V. |year=2000 |title=The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History, 1099–1125 |publisher=Prosopographica et Geneologica |isbn=978-1-9009-3403-9 }}
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