Henry II, Count of Louvain explained

Henry II
Count of Louvain Count of Brussels
Spouse:	Adèle
Issue:	Henry III, Count of Louvain Godfrey I, Count of Louvain Albero I of Louvain, Prince-Bishop of Liège Ide
Noble Family:	House of Reginar
Father:	Lambert II, Count of Louvain
Mother:	Oda of Verdun
Birth Date:	c. 1020
Death Date:	1078

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 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, who married Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut.^{[2] [3]}

See also

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

Notes and 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