Editing Pope Stephen IX (section)

==Family==
Christened Frederick,<ref>[[Kelly, Thomas Forrest]], ''The Beneventan Chant'', (Cambridge University Press, 1989), 39.</ref> he is a younger brother of [[Godfrey the Bearded]], [[Duke of Lorraine]],<ref name="Healy50">Patrick Healy, ''The Chronicle of Hugh of Flavigny: Reform and the Investiture Contest in the Late Eleventh Century'', (Ashgate Publishing, 2006), 50.</ref> and part of the [[Ardennes-Verdun dynasty]] that played a prominent role in the politics of the period.<ref name="Brucker1889">{{cite book|author=Pierre-Paul Brucker|title=L'Alsace et l'Église au temps du pape saint Léon IX (Bruno d'Egisheim) 1002–1054|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ugauAAAAMAAJ|year=1889|publisher=F.-X. Le Roux|location=Strasbourg|language=French|page=366}} Wattendorff, pp. 3–6.</ref> Another older brother, Duke [[Gothelo II of Lower Lorraine]], died in 1046. His younger sister, Regelinde, married Count [[Albert II of Namur]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Jules Borgnet|title=Histoire du comté de Namur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j7c_AAAAcAAJ|year=1846|publisher=A. Jamar|location=Bruxelles|language=French|pages=23, 26}}</ref> Another sister, Oda, married Count [[Lambert II of Louvain]]. Frederick's youngest sister, Mathilda, was married to Count Palatine [[Henry I of Lotharingia]]. The family had strong ties to the abbey of St. Vanne.<ref name="Healy50" />