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unusual facts about Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine



Giudicato of Logudoro

He brought Western monasticism to the island by requesting monks from Abbot Desiderius of Montecassino and in this he was supported by both Pope Alexander II and Godfrey the Bearded, Margrave of Tuscany, though the archdiocese of Pisa, thitherto chief religious influence on the island, opposed it.

Godfrey III, Count of Louvain

He married Alice de Hastings, daughter and heiress of Robert de Hastings (d.circa 1190), feudal baron of Little Easton in Essex.

Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine

Godfrey rebelled against his king and devastated land in Lower Lorraine, as well as the city of Verdun; which, though his by inheritance, Henry had not given him.

In 1056 and 1059, by the treaties of Andernach, Baldwin received the march of Ename in the Landgraviate of Brabant, probably in exchange for giving up the march of Valenciennes, which was confiscated by emperor Henry III in 1045.

In January 1058, Leo de Benedicto Christiano threw open the city gates to him and Beatrice after the election of Pope Nicholas II.

William the Hardy, Lord of Douglas

Eleanor Ferrers was the daughter of Matthew de Lovaine, a great grandson himself of Godfrey III, Count of Louvain.


see also

Ida of Boulogne

Ida of Lorraine, Countess of Boulogne (c. 1040–1113), daughter of Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine; wife of Eustace II, Count of Boulogne