Conrad I, Count of Luxembourg

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Seal of Conrad I of Luxembourg. The Latin inscription on the border of the seal reads: CONRARDVS COMES DE LVCELEMBVRCH

Conrad I (c. 1040 – 8 August 1086) was Count of Luxembourg (1059–1086), succeeding his father, Giselbert.Template:Sfn

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

Conrad founded the Orval Abbey in 1070 with Count Arnold I of Chiny and the Altmünster Abbey in 1083.Template:Sfn

His nephew was Hézelon de Liège, canon and architect of the church of Cluny Abbey (Template:Ill).

Marriage and issue

Around 1075, Conrad married Clementia (1048–1142), daughter of Duke William VII of Aquitaine and of Ermesinde.Template:Sfn They had:

• Matilda (1070 † ), married Godefroy (1075 † ), Count of Bleisgau
• Henry III († 1096), Count of LuxembourgTemplate:Sfn
• 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 killed by the TurksTemplate:Sfn
• 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.Template:Sfn They were parents of Henry IV of Luxembourg
• William I (1081 † 1131), Count of Luxembourg, married Matilda of BeichlingenTemplate:Sfn

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