County of Bidgau

the county of Bidgau ( pagus Bedensis ) primitive was one of vastest of Lotharingie. It was bordered in North by the Eiffel, in the West by the Ardenne, the Woëvre and the Saargau; in the South by the Bliesgau and in the East by the Nahgowe, which were not Lotharingien, and the Meinvelt. It extended on two banks from the the Moselle and included/understood the episcopal quoted of Trier, the abbeys of Saint-Maximin, of Prüm and of Echternach.
Old country of Caerèses, between the Prüm and the Kyll, and the pagus Surensis (Right Bank of the Sure ) there were attached.

Bidgau was dismembered continuously, especially with the profit of the house of Luxembourg and of achevêché of Trier.

Known counts:

in 895: Etienne, which was the adversary of Zwentibold.
in 909: Wigeric, which became Palatin of Charles Simple the.
† in 942: Gozlin, wire of the precedent.
in 959: Godefroy the Prisoner, wire of the precedent.
in 996: Henri, wire of Sigefroid, which became duke of Bavaria in 1004, died in 1026, without descent.
in 1026: Henri, wire of Frederic, nephew of the precedent, duke of Bavaria of 1042 to 1047, died without descent.
in 1047: Giselbert, brother of the precedent, count de Salm, then of Luxembourg in 1047.

Sources: Leon Vanderkindere: territorial formation of the Belgian principalities to the Middle Ages H. Lamertin, Brussels, 1902.

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