House of Ardenne-Luxembourg

The House of Luxembourg (or Luxembourg), also known as the House of Ardenne-Luxembourg in order to distinguish it from later families, were a Lotharingian noble family known from the tenth and eleventh centuries. They are one of the three main branches of the House of Ardenne, along with the House of Ardenne-Verdun, and the House of Ardenne-Bar.

All these Ardennes families descended from Cunigunda of France, a granddaughter of the West Frankish king Louis the Stammerer, and her husband Wigeric of Lotharingia. The Luxembourg branch descend from their son Sigfried, Count of the Ardennes.[1]

One continuing male-line branches of the House of Luxembourg include the House of Salm. The later House of Limburg, Dukes of Limbourg, whose descendants became Dukes of Luxembourg and a royal dynasty in Germany, descend from the House of Ardennes-Luxembourg through the daughter of Frederick, Duke of Lower Lorraine.[2]

Children of Count Sigfried:

• Henry I of Luxembourg
• Siegfried, cited in 985
• Frederick I, Count of Salm and Luxembourg, married Ermentrude of Gleiberg, daughter of Heribert I, Count of Gleiberg and Ermentrud (Imizi). Ancestor of the main known continuing lines...

• Henry VII (d. 1047), Count of Luxembourg and Duke of Bavaria
• Frederick, Duke of Lower Lorraine (1003–1065), Duke of Lower Lorraine. Ancestor of the Dukes of Limburg, and the Limburg-Luxemburg dynasty.
• Giselbert of Luxembourg (1007–1059), Count of Longwy, of Salm, and of Luxembourg, who continued the male line...

• Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg[3] († 1086)
• Hermann of Salm († 1088), count of Salm, founder of the House of Salm
• daughter, married count of Hillesleben
• daughter, married Kuno, count of Oltingen
• Adalbéron († 1097 at Antioch), canon at Metz

• Adalbéron III (d. 1072), Bishop of Metz
• Thierry of Luxembourg, father of :

• Thierry (d. 1075)
• Henry, Count Palatine of Lorraine (d. 1095)
• Poppon of Metz (d. 1103), Bishop of Metz

• Hermann of Gleiburg
• Ogive of Luxembourg (990–1036); married in 1012 to Baldwin IV[4] (980–1035), Count of Flanders
• Imiza of Luxembourg; married Welf II of Altdorf, Count in Lechrain (d. 1030)
• Oda of Luxembourg; canoness at Remiremont, then Abbess of Saint-Rémy at Lunéville

• Gisèle of Luxembourg (1019–after 1058); married Radulfe, Lord of Aalst (d. after 1038); parents of Gilbert de Gant
• Dietrich II, bishop of Metz, 1006-1047
• Adalberon, archbishop of Trier 1008-1046
• Gislebert (d.1004), count in the Moselgau
• Cunigunda, married Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
• Eve, married Gerard, Count of Metz
• Ermentrude, abbess
• Luitgarde, married Arnulf, Count of Holland
• a daughter, married Thietmar