Henry, Duke of Lower Lorraine

Henry I was 1101-1106 Duke of Lower Lorraine and 1081-1118 Count of Limburg.

The battle for the Herzogtstitel

Henry of Limburg was appointed by Emperor Henry IV in 1101 by the Duke of Lower Lorraine. In the power struggle between the emperor and his son ( Henry V ), he remained faithful to the old emperor, which he 1106, the title of duke to Count Godfrey I, Count of Leuven lost. In the following years there were between houses Limburg- Arlon and lion - Brabant to continuing fighting for the title and the Office of the Duke of Lower Lorraine. 1128 was Henry I 's son, Walram III. of Limburg (1119-1139), the title of Emperor Lothar III .. In 1139, Conrad III bestowed. him again the of Brabant. The situation was thus clarified that Walrams son of Henry II the following year ( 1140 ) was appointed Duke of Limburg.

On the origin of Henry

The literature has long been the consequence Walram I. - Walram II - Henry I specified for the first generations of the House of Limburg - Arlon. Here are Walram II, Count of Arlon, the first Count of Limburg, and Judith / Jutta, daughter of Duke Frederick II of Lower Lorraine and heiress of Limburg, the parents of Henry.

Udo de Lemborch ( 's chosen Udo Count of Limburg) mentions a egregrius comes - the other hand is to 1061 - during his lifetime Walrams II. This has the consequence that Walram II and Udo is considered to be a person who is frequently gives the name Walram -Udo.

Schwennicke (1999, see below), among others now show a deviating genealogy. According to him Walram II and Udo are two different people, with Walram II Count of Arlon and husband of Judith remains, but is not mentioned as Count of Limburg; Udo is at 1061 Graf von Limburg ( at Schwennicke: a count of Limburg, the well was called Udo ) and married to Judith / Jutta, a daughter of Duke Frederick's brother Giselbert, Count of Salm. The merger of the counties Arlon and Limburg takes place via Heinrich I, who presumably Udo's first wife, the heiress Walrams II of Arlon married the son of the first Earl of Limburg. This - and not Henry's second wife Adelheid of pot stone - would be the mother of the next generation.

Progeny

After Schwennicke Henry married his first wife, a daughter of Count Walram II of Arlon, which was also the mother of his children. According to traditional lore Henry was only with Adelheid of Pottenstein married (second in Schwennicke Henry's wife). The children Heinrich - from which marriage whatsoever - were:

  • Walram III. Paganus; † 1139, 1115-19 Count of Arlon, 1119 Count of Limburg and Lord of Wassenberg, 1128 Duke of Lower Lorraine
  • Agnes; † 1136; ∞ I Friedrich von Putelendorf; † 1125; ∞ II Walo of Vockenstedt; † 1126
  • Adelheid; † 1144/46; ∞ I, Frederick the Quarrelsome, Count of Arnsberg; † 1124; ∞ II before 1130 Kuno von Horburg; † probably 1138/39; ∞ III before 1140 Conrad II, Count of Dachau, X 1159
  • Mathilde, 1148 attested; ∞ Henry I of Namur, Count of Laroche; † before 1138 (House of Namur)
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