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Count of Louvain from 1054
A.K.A.
Henry II
Places
was
Work field
Gender
Male
Place of death
Nivelles, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium
Age
58 years
Family
Mother:
Oda of Verdun
Father:
Lambert II, Count of Louvain
Spouse:
Adele
Children:
Henry III
Count of Louvain
Godfrey I
Count of Louvain
Albero I of Louvain
Ida of Louvain
The details (from wikipedia)
Biography
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.
Marriage and issue
Henry married Adela of Thuringa. Henry and Adela had several sons and a daughter:
- Henry III, Count of Louvain (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 (1060–1139). He married Ida of 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
- Ida of Louvain married Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut.
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