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Henry II
Count of Louvain
Count of Brussels
Titles and stylesThe Count of Louvain and Brussels
Bornc. 1020
Died1078
Noble familyHouse of Reginar
Spouse(s)Adèle
IssueHenry III, Count of Louvain
Godfrey I, Count of Louvain
Albero I of Louvain, Prince-Bishop of Liège
Ide
FatherLambert II, Count of Louvain
MotherOda of Verdun

Henry II (German: Heinrich, Dutch:Hendrik, French: Henri) was Count of Louvain (Leuven) from 1054 through 1071 (?). Henry II was the son of Lambert II, Count of Louvain and Oda of Verdun. His maternal uncles included Pope Stephen X and Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lorraine.[1]

Marriage and issue

Henry married Adela of Thuringa.[2] Henry and Adela had several sons and a daughter:

Ancestry

Family of Henry II, Count of Louvain
Reginar II, Count of Hainaut (890 - 932)
Reginar III, Count of Hainaut (c. 920 – 973)
Adelaide of Burgundy, daughter of Richard, Duke of Burgundy
Lambert I of Louvain (c. 950 - 1015)
Adela
Lambert II, Count of Louvain (d. 1054)
Louis IV of France (920 - 954)
Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine (953 – 993)
Gerberga of Saxony (913 - 984)
Gerberga of Lorraine (c. 980 - 1018)
Adelaide
Henry II of Leuven
Count of Louvain, Count of Brussels
Gozlin, Count of Bidgau and Methingau
Godfrey I, Count of Verdun (House of Ardennes-Verdun) (d. 1002)
Margrave of Antwerp and Ename, count of Hainault
Oda of Metz
Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine (c. 967 – 1044)
Hermann Billung, "vice duke of Saxony" (c. 910 - 973)
Matilda Billung of Saxony (c. 940 - 1008)
Oda ?
Oda of Verdun (Lorraine)
Barbe de Lebarten ?

See also

Regnal titles
Preceded by Count of Louvain
1054-1078 		Succeeded by

References

  1. ^ Heather J. Tanner, Families, friends, and allies: Boulogne and politics in northern France and England, c. 879-1160, BRILL, 2004, p 300
  2. ^ a b c d e Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse geschiedenis, Uitgeverij Verloren, 1998 Google Books
  3. ^ Gislebertus (of Mons), Laura Napran, Chronicle of Hainaut, Boydell Press, 2005


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