Reginar V, Count of Mons
Reginar V. (c. 995; † after 1039 ) (French Régnier V de Mons, V. ndl Reinier van Bergen. ) Was Count of Mons.
Life
He came from the family of the Reginare and was the son of the father and the mother Hedwig Reginar IV of France. Grandparents on his mother's side were Hugh Capet and Adelaide of Aquitaine.
He succeeded his father in 1013 after a ( titular ) Earl and Count of Hainaut in Mons. Like his father he unable in opposition to the dukes of Lower Lorraine and was anxious to get back the County of Hainaut. He fought with his uncle Lambert I of Leuven against Duke Godfrey of Lower Lorraine. After the death of his uncle put his son the alliance with Reginar continued. In the year 1018 the dispute through mediation by Henry II and the Bishop of Cambrai Gerhard I of Cambrai on a court day in Nijmegen was settled. To secure peace, married Reginar Mathilde of Verdun, a niece of the Duke and heiress of Hermann von Eenham. Through this came as an inheritance among other things, a part of Brabant at him. Reginar supported subsequently Duke Godfrey. Together they fought against Dietrich III. Holland and were taken still trapped in 1018. Later, both were among those nobles of Lorraine, who performed after the death of Henry II against King Conrad II resistance. Later it also came to a feud with the Count of Flanders. This Reginars most important castle in Brabant Eendam was destroyed in 1033.
Like his father had Reginar V. a keen interest in the intellectual life of his time. He was in touch with the Abbot Olbert of St. Ghislain. This dedicated his Life of Saint Veronus. But he has defied the Poppo of Stavelot with support Conrad II and Bishop Gerard of Cambrai introduced monastic reform. He pressed the abbot employed by Gerard in S. Ghislain Heri fire so much that this begged the Emperor for protection.
He had a child with his wife. It is somewhat unclear whether his successor his son or whether his wife was Richildis when Count Hermann von Mons his daughter. This second marriage was to Baldwin of Flanders.