Coat of arms of the lordship of Bouillon.

The lordship of Bouillon was in the 10th and 11th century one of the core holdings of the Ardennes-Bouillon dynasty, and appears to have been their original patrimonial possession. The Ardennes-Verdun dynasty is used as a label on the dynasty centered on Verdun who dominated Lotharingia in the 11th century ^[1]

The Bouillon estate was a collection of fiefs, allodial land and other rights. Under the system of Feudalism, a fiefdom, fief, feud, feoff, or fee, often consisted of inheritable lands or revenue-producing The collection included e. g. the allod villages of Bellevaux, Mogimont, Senseruth and Assenois, the advocacy of the monastery of Saint-Hubert and Ardennes and the land to the south of Bouillon, formerly the land of the abbey of Mouzon, now held as a fief of the Archbishop of Reims. Bellevaux is a Village and commune in the Haute-Savoie département of eastern France. An advocatus was an Attorney at law in the Middle Ages. It was used in Continental Europe as the title of the lay Lord charged with Saint-Hubert is a Municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Luxembourg Province.

During the 10th and 11th century the lords of Bouillon also held, for shorter or longer periods, the Duchy of Lower Lorraine, county of Verdun, margraviate of Antwerp along with many lesser titles. The rulers of Lorraine have held different posts under different governments over different regions The counts of Verdun, now in eastern France were often during the Middle Ages rulers of Lorraine; the descendants of the early counts were also margraves in

List of the Lords of Bouillon

It is difficult to draw an exact list of the Lords of Bouillon, as the Lordship did not automatically follow the better documented ducal and comital titles held by the dynasty. Bouillon is a Municipality of Belgium. It lies in the country's Walloon Region and Luxembourg Province.

Since Bouillon is believed to be the patrimonial possession of the dynasty, one would believe the lordship was inherited by the oldest son^[2]. Based on this assumption on can set up a tentative list of the Lords of Bouillon:

• Godfrey the Captive (?, possibly until abt. Godfrey I (died 1002 called the Prisoner or the Captive ( le Captif) sometimes the Old ( le Vieux) was the count of Bidgau 1002)
• Frederick, son of above, (?, possibly abt. 1002-1005)
• Godfrey the Childless, younger brother of Frederick, (?, probably 1005-1023)
• Gozelo, younger brother of Frederick and Godfrey, (1023-1044)
• Godfrey the Bearded, son of above, (1044-1069)
• Godfrey the Hunchback, son of above, (1069-1076)
• Godfrey the Crusader, nephew of Godfrey the Hunchback, (1076-1096)

sold to the Bishopric of Liège

Notes

1. ^ Murray, p. Godfrey II (965 &ndash 1023 called the Childless, son of Godfrey I Count of Verdun, was the Count of Verdun from his father's death in 1002 and Gothelo or Gozelo (c 967 &ndash 19 April, 1044) called the Great, was the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1023 and of Upper Lorraine Godfrey III (c 997&ndash1069 called the Bearded, was the eldest son of Gothelo I, duke of Upper and Lower Lorraine. Godfrey IV (died 27 or 26 February 1076 known as the Hunchback, was a son of Godfrey the Bearded, whom he succeeded as Duke of Lower Lorraine in 1069 Godfrey of Bouillon (c 1060 Boulogne-sur-Mer &ndash 18 July 1100, Jerusalem) was a medieval knight who was a leader of the First The Bishopric of Liège or Prince-Bishopric of Liège was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries in present Belgium 10.
2. ^ In the case of Godfrey the Crusader, he was the second son of Godfrey the Hunchback's sister. He inherited his childless uncle, while the older brother Eustace inherited their father.

References

Murray, Alan V. (2000). The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem. A Dynastic History 1099-1125. . Prosopographica et Genealogica. ISBN 1-900934-03-5.