Career

At the end of the 10th century, he played a part in the history of what later came to be known as the county of Guelders. He is also named as Count of Avalgau. She was a daughter of Godfrey, Count Palatine of Lotharingia from the family of Matfrieden, and Ermentrude, possibly the oldest daughter of King Charles the Simple.

They had the following children:

Godfrey (d 977), killed at a young age in a campaign against Bohemia

Irmtrud of Avalgau, who married Herbert of Wetterau

Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich

Alberada

Bertada (d 1000), abbess in Cologne.