The lordship of Bouillon was in the 10th and 11th century one of the core holdings of the Ardennes-Bouillon dynasty

Ardennes-Bouillon dynasty

The Ardennes-Verdun dynasty is used as a label on the dynasty centered on Verdun who dominated Lotharingia in the 11th century.The founder of the dynasty was Godfrey, known as the Captive. He was a son of Count Gozlin, brother of bishop Adalbero of Metz, and Uda, a daughter of Gerard, Count of...

, and appears to have been their original patrimonial possession.Murray, p. 10.

The Bouillon estate was a collection of fiefs, allodial land, and other rights. The collection included e.g. the allod villages of Bellevaux

Bellevaux

Bellevaux is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.-References:*...

, Mogimont, Senseruth, and Assenois, the advocacy

Advocatus

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 of the monastery of Saint-Hubert and Ardennes

Saint-Hubert, Belgium

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, and the land to the south of Bouillon, formerly the land of the abbey of Mouzon, now held as a fief of the Archbishop of Reims

Archbishop of Reims

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During the 10th and 11th century, the lords of Bouillon also held, for shorter or longer periods, the Duchy of Lower Lorraine, county of Verdun

Count of Verdun

The counts of Verdun, now in eastern France, were often during the Middle Ages rulers of Lorraine; the descendants of the early counts were also margraves in Tuscany and Latin rulers in the Latin East after the First Crusade....

, margraviate of Antwerp, along with many lesser titles.

List of the Lords of Bouillon

Bouillon

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It is difficult to draw an exact list of the Lords of Bouillon, as the Lordship did not automatically follow the better documented ducal and comital titles held by the dynasty.

Since Bouillon is believed to be the patrimonial possession of the dynasty, one would believe the lordship was inherited by the oldest son. Based on this assumption, one can set up a tentative list of the Lords of Bouillon:

• Godfrey the Captive
  Godfrey I, Count of Verdun
  Godfrey I , called the Prisoner or the Captive , sometimes the Old , was the count of Bidgau and Methingau from 959 and the count of Verdun from 963 to his death. In 969, he obtained the margravate of Antwerp and Ename...
  
   (?, possibly until abt. 1002)
• Frederick, son of above, (?, possibly abt. 1002-1005)
• Godfrey the Childless
  Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine
  Godfrey II , called the Childless, son of Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, was the count of Verdun from his father's death in 1002 and duke of Lower Lorraine after the death in 1012 of the Carolingian Otto, who left no sons....
  
  , younger brother of Frederick, (?, probably 1005-1023)
• Gozelo
  Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine
  Gothelo , called the Great, was the duke of Lower Lorraine from 1023 and of Upper Lorraine from 1033. He was also the margrave of Antwerp from 1005 and count of Verdun. Gothelo was the youngest son of Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, and Matilda Billung, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony...
  
  , younger brother of Frederick and Godfrey, (1023-1044)
• Godfrey the Bearded
  Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine
  Godfrey III , called the Bearded, was the eldest son of Gothelo I, duke of Upper and Lower Lorraine. By inheritance, he was count of Verdun and he became margrave of Antwerp as a vassal of the duke of Lower Lorraine...
  
  , son of above, (1044-1069)
• Godfrey the Hunchback
  Godfrey IV, Duke of Lower Lorraine
  Godfrey IV , known as the Hunchback, was a son of Godfrey the Bearded, whom he succeeded as duke of Lower Lorraine in 1069. His mother was Doda and his sister was Ida....
  
  , son of above, (1069-1076)
• Godfrey the Crusader
  Godfrey of Bouillon
  Godfrey of Bouillon was a medieval Frankish knight who was one of the leaders of the First Crusade from 1096 until his death. He was the Lord of Bouillon, from which he took his byname, from 1076 and the Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1087...
  
  , nephew of Godfrey the Hunchback, (1076-1096)

sold to the Bishopric of Liège

Bishopric of Liège

The Bishopric of Liège or Prince-Bishopric of Liège was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries in present Belgium. It acquired its status as a prince-bishopric between 980 and 985 when Bishop Notger, who had been the bishop of Liege since 972, acquired the status of Prince-Bishop...