Gozelo I, Count of Montaigu
Count Gozelon, was an 11th century count who held the forts Behogne at Rochefort, and Montaigu at, which are both in the Ardennes in modern Belgium, but then part of Lower Lotharingia. He was also advocatus of the abbey of Saint-Barthélémy, Liège, beginning in 1043. Gozelon is the earliest known member of the family of counts of Montaigu that eventually also became counts of Duras, by marriage to an heiress. He is of unknown parentage.
The name Gozelon implies a family connection with the House of Verdun, who had several men with this name and a strong presence in the same Ardennes region. Gozlin, Count of the Ardennes, for example, had a grandson Gozelon, Count of Bastogne, the successor to his father Reginar. Another one of Gozlin's grandsons, was also known as Gozelo, but there is no direct evidence for a relationship.
In 1038, in an act witnessed by Gozelon, Gothelo the Great (Duke of Lorraine), Arnold I of Looz, an unknown count named Sigebold, and the Archbishop of Trier Poppo von Babenberg, restored the monastery of St. Matheus of Trier.
Gozelon married Ermentrude de Grandpré. Gozelon and Ermentrude had five children:
- Conon, Count of Montaigu
- Raoul of Montaigu
- Guy of Montaigu
- Jean of Montaigu, Provost of Saint Pierre, likely Cathédrale Saint-Pierre d'Angoulême
- Henry of Montaigu, Archdeacon and dean at Saint Lambert, Liège.
Gozelon died in 1064 after pillaging Marloie, which was possessed by the abbey of Saint Hubert, the Apostle of the Ardennes. Gozelon was nevertheless buried at the church of the abbey.