Ezzo, Count Palatine of Lorraine

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: He was also the Lord of Duisburg and Kaiserwerth. He was also known as Erenfried of the Rheinphapz. His first name was also spelt as Edzo.
• Education: say 965, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany; He was sent as a child to be educated by Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg (episcopate 923–973), a relative of his mother. Nothing more is known about his youth.
• Land/House: 996; At the death of his father in 996, Herman's rich allodial property was shared between his sons. Ezzo received lands in Cochem on the Mosel river, in Maifeld, the Flamersheimer Wald and estates around Tomburg Castle near Rheinbach, as well as half the usufruct of Villewaldin. About the same time, he must have received the Palatinate and previous countal rights, as he is referred as count in the Auelgau in 1015 and as Count Palatine in the Bonngau in 1020. He also received the county of Ruhrgau with tutelage of Essen Abbey.
• Miscellaneous: 1002; Unsuccessful candidate to the imperial throne upon the death of Emperor Otto III in 1002, his relation with the new Ottonian king Henry II was immediately very tensed. Henry disputed Ezzo's ownership of territories, that he defended as his wife's inheritance of late Otto III. The conflict dragged on for years and reached its peak in 1011. Facing disturbances in Lotharingia, and in need for Ezzo's military support, Henry was forced to come to terms. Ezzo's victory led the king to make concessions and to a complete transformation of its policy. He reconciled with Ezzo, recognized its rights of inheritance and gave him the royal territories of Kaiserswerth, Duisburg as well as Saalfeld in Thuringia for renouncing to the throne. He also associated the Ezzonid dynasty to his Eastern policies, and mediated the marriage of Ezzo's daughter Richeza with the heir to the Polish throne Mieszko II Lambert.
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Ezzo married Matilda of Saxony in 991. Matilda (daughter of Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor and Theophano Skleros) was born in 981; died on 4 Nov 1025 in Esch-sur-Sûre, Luxembourg. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Liudolf, Governor of Brauweiler was born about 1000; died on 10 Apr 1031.
2. Otto, Count of Palatine of Lorraine of Lotharingia died in 1047.
3. Herman, Archbishop of Cologne was born in 995; died in 1056.
4. Theophanu, Abbess of Essen and Gerresheim died in 1058.
5. Richenza of Pfalz-Lorraine, Queen of Poland was born about 1000; died on 21 Mar 1063 in Saalfeld, Thuringia, Germany; was buried in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
6. Adelheid, Abbess of Nivelles died about 1030.
7. Heilwig, Abbess of Neuss
8. Mathilde, Abbess of Dietkirchen and Vilich
9. Sophie, Abbess of St. Maria, Mainz
10. Ida, Abbess of Cologne and Gandersheim Abbey died in 1060.

Family/Spouse: a concubine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Henry, Abbot of Gorze was born in 1055; died in 1093.

Other Events and Attributes:

• General Information: Pusillus means the Little.
• Religion: From 1003 to 1032; From 1003 to 1032 he was an advocate of the Abbey of Deutz.
• Title(s): 1028; He became the Lord of Norvenich in 1028.

Hermann married Heilwig von Dillingen on Yes, date unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ebrenfeld married Richwara. Richwara died before 10 Jul 963. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]