Person:Siegfried of Luxembourg (1)

Known and Disputed Lineage

Siegfried is known to be the son of Cunigunda, but the identity of his father is unknown^[3]. Cawley^[3] speculates he was the son of an unknown third husband of Cunigunda, although allows that he might have been the son of Wigerich (her first husband). According to the German Wikipedia article^[5], René Klein speculates that the unknown third husband was Giselbert, later Duke of Lorraine.

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Sigfried (or Siegfried) ( – 28 October 998) was Count in the Ardennes, and is known in European historiography as founder and first ruler of the Castle of Luxembourg in 963 AD, and ancestor and predecessor of the future counts and dukes of Luxembourg. He was also an advocate of the abbeys of St. Maximin in Trier and Saint Willibrord in Echternach.

His male-line descendants are known as the House of Luxembourg, or House of Ardenne–Luxembourg, and his descendants would become the Counts of Luxembourg.

1. ↑ Siegfried of Luxembourg, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
2. ↑ Weis, Frederick Lewis; Walter Lee Sheppard; and David Faris. Ancestral roots of certain American colonists, who came to America before 1700: the lineage of Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and some of their descendants. (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 7th Edition c1992)
   p. 125.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5} SIEGFRIED ([925/35]-28 Oct [998], bur Trier), in Cawley, Charles. Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

   The discussion immediately above this entry notes that there were sources identifying his mother as Cunigonde, but no primary source identifying his father. Cawley speculates that Cunigonde married a third time, and that Siegfried was the son of this third husband.
   
   Cawley estimates his birth year to be between 925 and 935, unless he was the son of Wigerich, Cunigonde's second husband, in which case he estimates it to be between 915 and 919.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2} Sigefroid/Siegfried (of Luxemburg) (Sigefridus Kunuz, Sicco), in Baldwin, Stewart, and Todd Farmerie. The Henry Project (King Henry II ): Ancestors of King Henry II.

   died 27 or 28 Oct, prob. 998

5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3} Biographie auf Wikipedia DE, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
   [[1]], gefunden 2015.

   Graf Siegfried I. (* um 918/929[1]; † wohl 28. Oktober 998[2]) gilt als Gründer von Luxemburg: den Namen „Graf von Luxemburg“ führt er jedoch nicht,[3] die Bezeichnung ist erstmals im Jahr 1083 bezeugt
   Er war – nach jüngster Hypothese – ein Sohn Herzog Giselberts,[5] sicher aber der Kunigunde, einer Enkelin des Königs Ludwig der Stammler, Tochter der Ermentrud und vielleicht des Grafen Reginar I.

6. ↑ Wikipedia's around the world seem to differ on the parents of Siegfried. There seems to be consensus on his mother, but not on his father.
   DE.wikipedia: Er war – nach jüngster Hypothese – ein Sohn Herzog Giselberts.
   And: Dass Kunigunde seine Mutter ist, ist gesichert.[21] Wer sein Vater ist, ist nicht belegt, erschließt sich lediglich aus den Ehen seiner Mutter, wobei die zweite, die sie nach dem Tod Wigerichs mit dem Grafen Richwin von Verdun schloss, als kinderlos angesehen wird. René Klein verfasste im Jahr 1998 eine Arbeit, mit der er nachzuweisen versuchte, dass Kunigunde nach dem Tod Richwins mit Giselbert, dem späteren Herzog von Lothringen, eine dritte Ehe einging, aus der Siegfried stammt (zu den Details siehe Kunigunde (Enkelin Ludwigs des Stammlers)).