Henry II, Count of Louvain

Henry II
Count of Louvain Count of Brussels
Born	c. 1020
Died	1078
Noble family	House of Reginar
Spouse	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 (Dutch: Hendrik, French: Henri) was the 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 IX and Duke Godfrey the Bearded of Lorraine.^[1]

Marriage and issue

Henry married Adela of Thuringia.^[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, who 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[citation needed] 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)

See also

• Dukes of Brabant family tree
• Chronique des Ducs de Brabant, Adrian van Baerland, Antwerp (1612).

Regnal titles
Preceded by Lambert II	Count of Louvain 1054-1078	Succeeded by Henry III

References

1. Heather J. Tanner, Families, friends, and allies: Boulogne and politics in northern France and England, c. 879-1160, BRILL, 2004, p 300
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 (1981), "Annexe 2", Liège et l'Église impériale, doi:10.4000/books.pulg.1442, ISBN 978-2-251-66228-2