Henry II, Count of Louvain

Henry II
Henry II
	Count of Louvain; Count of Brussels
	DetailTitles and styles The Count of Louvain and Brussels
Born	c. 1020
Died	1078
Noble family	House of Reginar
Spouse(s)	Adèle
	Issue Henry III, Count of Louvain; Godfrey I, Count of Louvain; Albero I of Louvain, Prince-Bishop of Liège; Ide
Father	Lambert II, Count of Louvain
Mother	Oda of Verdun

Henry II (German: Heinrich, Dutch: Hendrik, French: Henri) was Count of Louvain (Leuven) from 1054 through 1071 (?). Henry II was the son of Lambert II, Count of Louvain and Oda of Verdun. His maternal uncles included Pope Stephen X and Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lorraine.[1]

Marriage and issue

Henry married Adela of Thuringa.[2] Henry and Adela had several sons and a daughter:

Henry III, Count of Louvain[2] (d. 1095). He married Gertrude of Flanders (1080–1117), daughter of Robert I of Flanders and Gertrude of Saxony. They probably bore duchess Adelaide wife of Simon I of Lorraine, and countess Gertrude wife to Lambert, count of Montaigu and Clermont.
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain[2] (1060–1139). He married Ida de Chiny & Namur, who bore at least five children e.g. Godfrey II of Louvain, Duke of Lower Lorraine. later he married Clementia of Burgundy and bore Joceline of Louvain.
Albero I of Louvain, Bishop of Liège[2]
Ida of Louvain married Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut.[2][3]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Henry II, Count of Louvain[4]

Reginar II, Count of Hainaut (890 - 932)

Reginar III, Count of Hainaut (c. 920 – 973)

Adelaide of Burgundy

Lambert I of Louvain (c. 950 - 1015)

Adela

Lambert II, Count of Louvain (d. 1054)

Louis IV of France (920 - 954)

Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine (953 – 993)

Gerberga of Saxony (913 - 984)

Gerberga of Lorraine (c. 980 - 1018)

Adelaide

Henry II of Leuven
Count of Louvain, Count of Brussels

Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau

Godfrey I, Count of Verdun (d. 1002)

Oda of Metz

Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine (c. 967 – 1044)

Hermann Billung, "vice duke of Saxony" (c. 910 - 973)

Matilda Billung of Saxony (c. 940 - 1008)

Oda of Verdun (Lorraine)

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References

Heather J. Tanner, Families, friends, and allies: Boulogne and politics in northern France and England, c. 879-1160, BRILL, 2004, p 300
Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse geschiedenis, Uitgeverij Verloren, 1998 Google Books
Gislebertus (of Mons), Laura Napran, Chronicle of Hainaut, Boydell Press, 2005
Parisse (1981), "Généalogie de la Maison d'Ardenne", La maison d'Ardenne Xe-XIe siècles. Actes des Journées Lotharingiennes, 24 - 26 oct. 1980, Centre Univ., Luxembourg: 9–41; Kupper, "Annexe 2", Liège et l’Église impériale

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[1] Heather J. Tanner, Families, friends, and allies: Boulogne and politics in northern France and England, c. 879-1160, BRILL, 2004, p 300

[jaarboek-2] Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse geschiedenis, Uitgeverij Verloren, 1998 Google Books

[3] Gislebertus (of Mons), Laura Napran, Chronicle of Hainaut, Boydell Press, 2005

[4] Parisse (1981), "Généalogie de la Maison d'Ardenne", La maison d'Ardenne Xe-XIe siècles. Actes des Journées Lotharingiennes, 24 - 26 oct. 1980, Centre Univ., Luxembourg: 9–41; Kupper, "Annexe 2", Liège et l’Église impériale

Henry II, Count of Louvain

Marriage and issue

Ancestry

See also

References