Godfrey I, Count of Louvain

Gottfried VI. ( Gottfried called the Bearded ) (c. 1063; † January 25, 1139 ) was Count of Leuven (in this capacity, Count Godfrey I ), Count of Brussels, Landgrave of Brabant, margrave of Antwerp, Duke of Lower Lorraine.

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After the death of his brother Henry III. of lions in 1095, he was appointed Count of Leuven -Brussels and Landgrave of Brabant. In 1106 the title of Duke of Lower Lorraine and the Margrave of Antwerp were awarded him, but in 1128 he has these offices to Walram III. Make of Limburg. Nevertheless, he was allowed to continue to call the Duke of Lorraine. 1129 turned Gottfried VI. to the abbot of the Norbertine abbey of St. Martin in Laon, France, with a request to establish an abbey near lions. He donated for this purpose, a park and a hunting lodge, from which in the following years the Park Abbey was built.

Gottfried VI. married 1105 Ida Chiny († 1117/25 ), daughter of Count Otto II (House Chiny ), and married again after her death with Clementia, daughter of William II of Burgundy.

On January 25, 1139 he died and was buried in the Benedictine abbey of Affligem. He was succeeded by Godfrey II of Leuven, a son from his first marriage.