Henry III, Count of Louvain

Henry III. of Leuven ( * 1060, † February or March 1095 Tournai ) was Count of Leuven and Brussels, 1078-1095 This comes from the house of so-called Reginare. .

He was the son of Henry II of Leuven, Count of Leuven and Brussels, and the Countess Adela, whose parentage is unknown. After the death of the Count Palatine Herman II of Lorraine († 1085 ), he received the land County Brabant as an imperial fief by the Emperor Henry IV occasion of the consecration of the abbey of Affligem ( 1086 ) transferred Henry III. the abbey land near aces.

Henry was married to Gertrude of Flanders (1080-1117), daughter of Robert I of Flanders and Gertrude of Saxony. They are presented as four daughters.

In February or March 1095 Henry made ​​a muster of the knights of the castellan of Tournai. As the chronicles, he called it in a cocky way out the knight Goswin de Forest to a showdown. In the subsequent tournament Ride Count Henry was mortally wounded. His brother Gottfried the bearded man followed him in his offices, his widow married in 1096 Duke Dietrich II of Lorraine.