duke of Frisia Godfrid 0820 5710

DUKE OF FRISIA
Godfrid Sex: Male

Birth Date	0820 Denmark
Death Date	0885 Lobith, (now Netherlands) (Murder)
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Godfrid Notes:	Danish Viking leader of the late ninth century. He had probably been with the Great Heathen Army, descended on the continent, and became a vassal of the emperor Charles the Fat, controlling most of Frisia between 882 and 885.
Notes:	In 880, Godfrid ravaged Flanders using Ghent as his base. In 882, Godfrid ravaged Lotharingia and the cities of Maastricht, LiÃ¨ge, Stavelot, PrÃ¼m, Cologne, and Koblenz were devastated. After the Siege of Asselt forced him to come to terms, Godfrid was granted the Kennemerland, which had formerly been ruled by Rorik of Dorestad, as a vassal of Charles, according to the Annales Fuldenses. Godfrid swore oaths to Charles promising never to again lay waste his kingdom and accepted Christianity and baptism, at which Charles stood as his godfather. In return, Charles appointed him Duke of Frisia and gave him Gisela, daughter of Lothair II, as his wife. However, Godfrid did nothing against a Danish raid which pillaged large parts of the Low Countries in 884. In 885, he was summoned to Lobith for a meeting after being accused of complicity with Hugh, Duke of Alsace and brother of Godfrids wife Gisela, in an insurrection. In an act of treachery he was killed by a group of Frisian and Saxon nobles at the connivance of Henry of Franconia, who had been at odds with Hugh and was against the initial appointment of Godfrid as Duke. The local count Gerulf took over the West Frisian coastline from the Danish after the murder.
Notes:	In an act of treachery he was killed by a group of Frisian and Saxon nobles at the connivance of Henry of Franconia
Notes:	murdered June 885

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Gisela of Lotharingia Princess Of Lorraine Sex: Female

Birth Date	0869 Leeuwarden, Friesland, Netherlands
Death Date	0907 Loraine Alsace, Grand Est, France
Father	Lothair	Born: 0835	Died: 0869 AUG 08
Mother	Ermentrude de Wormsgau	Born:

Gisela of Lotharingia Princess Of Lorraine Notes:
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Siegfried De Guines Count of GuÃ®nes "THE DANE"

b.0912
d.0965

Gisela of Lotharingia

Eltrude Rosella de Flandres

1 Hawise de Guines b.0925

Wife de Saint-Sauveur b.0965

Yvron Bellomontensis de Contentin b.1005

Nigel de Cotentin Lord of Halton, Constable of Chester b.1030

2 I, II Ardolph de Guines comte de GuÃ®nes b.0965

I Rodolphe comte de Guines b.0982

1029 Robert le Blount 1st Baron of Ixworth b.1065

Gilbert le Blount 2nd Baron of Ixworth b.1056

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