Via zijn tante Oda of Uda van Metz, gehuwd met Gozelo van de Ardennen, graaf van Bidgau en van Methingau, was hij een neef van Godfried van Verdun. ###>His aunt, Oda, was married to Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau, and he was thus a cousin of Godfrey I, Count of Verdun, whose children later became dukes of Lower Lorraine as well.