Tjuyu
Tjuyu( sometimes transliterated as Thuya or Thuyu) was an Egyptian noblewoman and the mother of queen Tiye, and the wife of Yuya.
She is the grandmother of Akhenaten, and great grandmother of Tutankhamun.
Hannah Arnold
Hannah Arnold, also known as Hannah Waterman King, was the grandmother of Benedict Arnolds children.
Rudolfe II, Count of Ivois
Rudolfe II( Rudolf, Raoul)( died 963), Count of Ivois and Count of Verdun( as Raoul), was son of Rudolfe I, Count of Ivois, and Eva. Rudolfe succeeded his father as Count of Ivois and was installed as Count of Verdun after the death of Otto, Duke of Lorraine, in 944.
After his death in 963, Godfrey the Prisoner was installed as count.
An estimate that his rule as Count of Verdun ended in 960 is based on a reference to Godfrey as a count in 960.
However, Godfrey was also count of Bidgau and Methingau from 959, so there is no reason to believe that Rudolfe was not count until his death in 963.
Rudolfe was overthrown as Count of Ivois by Étienne, Count of Porcien( year unknown), and replaced as Count of Verdun in 963 by Godfrey.
Oda of Metz
Oda of Metz (ca. 910 – 10 April 963) was a German noblewoman.
She was the daughter of Count Gerard of Metz.
Her mother Oda of Saxony was a daughter of Otto I, Duke of Saxony and thus a member of the Liudolfings.
One of her brothers was Henry the Fowler.
Because of this family connection Oda was a cousin of the first Holy Roman Emperor, Otto I the Great.
In 930, Oda married Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau, who gained fame as military commander for his brother, Adalberon I of Metz.
Because she outlived her husband by twenty years, she was head of the household and ran the estate and lands until their children had reached adulthood.
They had the following children:
Frederick, Count of Verdun
Frederick( Frédéric)( ca. 970- 6 January 1022), Count of Verdun( 988-1022), Count of Castres( 1000- 1022), and Provost of Saint- Vaast, was part of the Ardennes- Verdun dynasty.
He was the eldest son of Godfrey I the Prisoner, Count of Verdun, and Matilda, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony, of the Billung family, a widow of Baldwin III of Flanders.
Frederick was among those captured along with his father in 985 when Lothair of France attacked Verdun in 985.
He was released in 987 by family ally Hugh Capet, then Duke of the Franks(" dux et princeps Francorum").
In 988, Frederick worked to bring the body of his brother Adalberon, Bishop of Verdun, who died in Italy, to be buried in the Verdun Cathedral.
It is uncertain how long Frederic remained as Count in Verdun as the charter dated 17 Aug 1156 of Emperor Friedrich I Barbarossa indicates that the County of Verdun was transferred to the Bishop of Verdun during the reign of Emperor Otto III.
However, a charter dated 1020, under which Haimont, Bishop of Verdun, confirmed an exchange of property, names" domni Frederici… comes nostre civitatis", which suggests that Frederic continued as count at least in part of the county.
A 1020 charter of Abbot Richard demonstrates that Frederick must have resigned the countship soon after, as it refers to" temporis dominus Fredericus qui comes Virdunensis civitatis fuerat".
Frederick was also Count of Castres, as shown by the charter dated 5 May 1005 under which Henry II, then King of Germany, granted market rights at" Doncheria … in comitatu…Frederici comitis…Castricensis" to the Abbey Saint- Médard de Soissons.
It is not known who his wife or wives were.
He apparently had a daughter Sophie( b. ca 1010) who married Louis II, Count of Chiny.
Louis' father, a successor of Frederick ’s as count, was murdered by Frederick ’s brother Gothelo.
In 1020, near the end of his life, Frederick gave up his title and became a monk at Saint- Vanne Abbey.
He was succeeded as Count of Verdun by his brother Herman.
It is unclear who, if anyone, succeeded him as Count of Castres.
Albert, Count of Chiny
Albert( Albert I)( before 1131 – 29 September 1162), Count of Chiny, son of Otto II, Count of Chiny, and Adélaïs of Namur.
He succeeded his father before 1131 and spent most of his time in Chiny, not taking part in the various conflicts which shook the region.
He married Agnes, daughter of Renaud I, Count of Bar and Gisèle Vaudémont, daughter of, Count of Vaudémont.
Their children were: Arnulf was killed by an arrow to the head in front of the castle of Saint Manehulde during an attack on the bishopric of Verdun.
Alix and Mannases were the parents of Albert II of Hierges, Bishop of Verdun( 1186–1208).
Ida and Gobert were the grandparents of John I of Aspremont, Bishop of Verdun( 1217–1224).
Albert was succeeded as Count of Chiny by his son Louis.
Herman, Count of Verdun
Herman of Ename( d. 28 May 1029), Count of Verdun( 1022- 1024) and Count of Brabant, was part of the Ardennes- Verdun dynasty.
He was the third son of Godfrey I the Prisoner, Count of Verdun, and Matilda, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony, of the Billung family, a widow of Baldwin III of Flanders.
He succeeded his brother Frederick as Count of Verdun in 1022.
Little is known about Herman other than he fought valiantly at his father ’s side when Lothair of France attacked Verdun in 985, resulting in the capture of his father and brother Frederick.
Herman and his brother Adalberon are credited with repulsing further progress of Lothair.
Herman ’s father was Margrave of Ename and some credit Herman with the title Count of Ename.
He was also Count of Brabant.
Little is known about these positions or any successors.
Herman first married Mathilde of unknown origins.
Herman and Mathilde had three children: Herman married secondly Goda, again of unknown origins.
They had three children only one of which lived to adulthood: Herman had one illegitimate son by an unknown mistress: Herman retired to the Abbey of Saint- Vanne in 1024 and was succeeded by Louis, son of Otto I, Count of Chiny.
Hubba bint Hulail
Hubba bint Hulail was the grandmother of Hashim ibn' Abd Manaf, thus the great- great- great- grandmother of the Islamic" Nabī"( Prophet) Muhammad ibn Abdullah.
Louis, Count of Verdun
Louis I (murdered September 29, 1025), Count of Chiny (987-1025) and Count of Verdun (as Louis) (1024-1025), son of Otto I, Count of Chiny, and an unknown mother.
Upon Otto’s death, Louis became the second Count of Chiny.
Virtually nothing is known about his rule in Chiny.
In 1024, Reginbert, the Bishop of Verdun, appointed Louis as Count of Verdun when Count Herman of Ename, son of Godfrey the Prisoner, retired to a monastery.
Herman's nephew, Godfrey the Bearded, coveted the position, and Gothelo (Herman’s brother and Godfrey’s father) invaded the city and murdered Louis.
Louis married Adelaide (d. after 1025), of unknown parentage.
They had two children:
Louis’ son Louis II assumed the position of Count of Chiny after his father’s death, and Godfrey the Bearded was appointed Count of Verdun.
Godfrey I, Count of Verdun
Godfrey I (died 1002), called the Prisoner or the Captive ("le Captif"), sometimes the Old ("le Vieux"), was the count of Bidgau and Methingau from 959 and the count of Verdun from 963 to his death.
In 969, he obtained the Margraviate of Antwerp and Ename.
Between 974 and 998, he was also the count of Hainault and Mons.
He was the son of Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau, and Oda of Metz.
He was the brother of Adalberon, Archbishop of Reims, who crowned Hugh Capet the king of France.
He was the founder of the House of Ardennes-Verdun, a cadet branch of the House of Ardennes.
He was always loyal to the Ottonians, whom he was related through his maternal grandmother.

Question: Who is the maternal grandmother of Godfrey I, Count Of Verdun?