Conrad I (c. 1040 – 8 August 1086) was count of Luxembourg (1059–1086), succeeding his father, Giselbert.^[1]

Conrad was embroiled in an argument with the archbishop of Trier as to the abbaye Saint-Maximin in Trier which he had avowed.^[2] The archbishop excommunicated him and Conrad had to make honourable amends and set out on pilgrimage for Jerusalem to have his excommunication lifted.^[2] He died in Italy on the return journey.^[3]

Conrad founded the Orval Abbey in 1070 with Count Arnold I of Chiny and the Altmünster Abbey in 1083.^[4]

His nephew was Hézelon de Liège, canon and architect of the church of Cluny Abbey (Cluny III [fr]).^[5]

Marriage and issue

Around 1075 he married Clementia (1060–1142), daughter of Duke William VII of Aquitaine and of Ermesinde.^[6] They had:

• Matilda (1070 † ), married Godefroy (1075 † ), Count of Bleisgau
• Henry III († 1096), Count of Luxembourg^[7]
• Rudolph († 1099), abbot of Saint-Vannes at Verdun
• Conrad, cité en 1080
• Adalbero, (d. 1098 in Antioch), Archdeacon of Metz, travelled to the Holy Land as part of the army of Godfrey of Bouillon, where he was executed by the Turks
• Ermesinde (1075 † 1143), married
  1. in 1096 to Albert II († 1098), count of Egisheim and of Dagsbourg,
  2. in 1101 to Godefroy (1067 † 1139), count of Namur.^[8] They were parents of Henry IV of Luxembourg
• William I (1081 † 1131), Count of Luxembourg, married Matilda of Beichlingen^[9]

References

Sources

• Gades, John A. (1951). Luxembourg in the Middle Ages. Brill.
• Jackman, Donald C. (2012). The Kleeberg Fragment of the Gleiberg County. Editions Enplage.

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