Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia

Herman II (c. 1049; † September 20, 1085 in Dalhem ) was Count Palatine of Lorraine, Count of Zülpichgau, Ruhrgau and Brabant.

He was the son of the Count Palatine Henry I of Lorraine ( Ezzonen ) and Mathilde of Verdun, daughter of the Duke of Lorraine Gozelo ( Wigeriche ). Around 1080 he married Adelheid von Weimar- Orlamünde († 1100), daughter of Margrave Otto of Orlamünde Weimar.

As his father's successor († 1060 ) Hermann is from 1064 detectable as Pfalzgraf. Between 1060 and 1064 he stood at the bottom of the guardianship of the Cologne archbishop Anno II

Hermann was represented ( 1065, 1071 ) in the Duisburg- Kaiserwerther County and remained Graf in the ezzonischen counties Ruhrgau and Zülpichgau.

In Brabantgau he was Henry IV used (from 1085/1086 Landgraviate Brabant) and founded the abbey of Affligem.

Hermann II fell in a duel against the niederlothringischen Vicedux Albert III. Namur near his castle to Dalhem in the county of Limburg ( September 20, 1085 ). With his death went the old Lorraine Pfalzgraf family of Ezzonen, with the successors in office, this was transformed from Lorraine to the Rhenish Palatinate county.

Hermann's widow Adelheid married shortly after his death Henry II of Laach, which is done as the first Count Palatine of the Rhine.