Ansfried the Elder, Count in Lotharingia

Ansfried or Ansfrid, was a 10th-century count (Latin: comes), who held 15 counties in Lotharingia, a former kingdom which contained the Low Countries and Lorraine, and which was coming under the control of the new Holy Roman Empire during his lifetime. He is sometimes referred to as "the elder" in order to distinguish him from his nephew, and apparent heir, Bishop Ansfried of Utrecht, who was also a powerful count until he became a bishop.

Thietmar of Merseburg, describing Ansfried's nephew of the same name, named two paternal uncles, Ansfried and Robert, Bishop of Trier. This implies that Ansfried the elder is brother to Bishop Robert, who was himself described as a relative to the Ottonians, the royal family at the time. It was Thietmar who described Ansfried the elder, the uncle, as a count of 15 counties, and says it was he who sent his nephew to Bruno the great for his education, after he had already spent time with his other uncle.

If Ansfried was the same as the advocatus of the Abbey of Gembloux in the 950s, as is often thought, then he was also described as a blood-relative (consanguineus) of Wicfrid, the founder of that Abbey. He was probably also the rebel who held the fort of Chevremont near Liège in 939, after the Battle of Andernach and the death of Duke Gilbert of Lotharingia.