 When Gothelo II died two years later, Godfrey III claimed his rights but found Henry III unwilling to re-unite both duchies.He openly rebelled, campaigned the Lower Lorraine lands and was finally declared deposed by the emperor.Thereafter, Upper Lorraine was lost and passed to Count Adalbert of Metz, a son of late Theodoric's daughter Gisela, and his descendants of the Ardennes-Metz dynasty, ancestors of the later House of Lorraine.