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The record which has survived says that one of the early possessions of the Abbey was half of the church at a place called
Wiettine or Biettine in the Maasland district. Erluin, the first abbot of Gembloux, sent the founder Wicbert himself, who had probably originally owned and granted the other half
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On the other hand, the version of
Miraeus has generally been accepted concerning the fact that his text makes Ansfried the son of Lambert. More recently Jongbloed (2009) has controversially proposed that Ansfried can confidently be described as the son of Wicbert, though authors such as Karsten and
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itself already contained an error. The reason for proposing that a faulty text is likely, is to explain what the role of
Ansfried was as an observer. Typically in medieval contracts, heirs appear as witnesses, when a family is giving away something they might otherwise have inherited, in order to
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The name of
Lambert as a Count of Louvain, is known only from later generations, starting in the eleventh century. This Biettine document is from the tenth century, and historians are suspicious of Mireaus's statement. It is not even clear if there was a county of this name, at this time.
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Lambert is known from one record, known from two surviving versions, one made much later in the 16th century, which has however been the subject of much published discussion. It involved the church of "Biettine" (believed to be
Obbicht) in the
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published the early modern version of this text which appears to have clarified, and maybe modified, the meaning, so that
Ansfried is definitely the son of Lambert, not Wicbert. His source was a different old document, the
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Ansfried is normally understood to be either
Ansfried the Bishop of Utrecht, who would have been quite young at this time, or Ansfried the elder, his paternal uncle, a count with 15 counties, who may have become an
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refers to the "paternal uncle , Robert, Archbishop of Trier”, implying a sibling relationship between
Lambert and Robert, if Lambert (not Wicbert) was Bishop Ansfrid's father, and not the elder Ansfried's.
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and his brother
Reginar IV were exiled around 958 and began attempting to return to Lotharingia in 973 claiming some of the places their family had once held.
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77:) of the abbey of Gembloux. A number of historical records imply that the family group which he and Wicbert seem to be a part of were related to the
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Jongbloed, Hein H.. (2009) "Listige Immo en
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Aarts, Bas (2016) "Het 'eeuwige Strijen'. Speurtocht naar de gravin, haar schenking en haar familie" in Van den Eynde & Toorians (eds)
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of the Abbey, and this was observed by a son named Ansfried. There is debate about whether Ansfried was son of Wicbert or Lambert.
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of the church which the abbey already owned. The negotiation succeeded, and possession was handed over to the
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Aarts, Bas (1994) "Ansfried, graaf en bisschop. Een stand van zaken", in: J. Coolen en J. Forschelen (ed.),
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was possibly a relative. Although there are other proposals, he is generally considered to be the father of
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avoid future disputes. In this case, the man selling was clearly Lambert.
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