Lambert I OF LOUVAIN
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Lambert OF LOUVAIN's brother: Regnier IV OF HAINAUT (950?-1013)

Lambert I OF LOUVAIN (950?-1015)

Name: Lambert I OF LOUVAIN 1
Sex: Male
Nickname: "The Bearded"
Father: Regnier III OF HAINAUT (928?-973)
Mother: Adela (Alix) ( -961)

Individual Events and Attributes

Birth 0950 (app) Leuven, Belgium
Occupation frm 1003 to 1015 (age 52-65) Count of Louvain
Title Count of Namur
Group/Caste Membership House of Reginar
Marriage Count 1
Child Count 4
Death 12 Sep 1015 (age 64-65) Florennes, Belgium

Additional Information

Death Cause: in battle for Godfrey's claim of Count of Verdun. He was killed by Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine

Marriage

Spouse Gerberga (Ermengarde) OF LORRAINE (975?-aft1018)
Children Lambert II OF LOUVAIN (991?-1064)
Maud OF LOUVAIN ( - )
Marriage btw 0985 and 0990 (age 34-40)

Individual Note

Lambert I of Leuven nicknamed "The Bearded" (born in Leuven, Belgium c. 950, died in Florennes, Belgium on September 12, 1015) was the first Count of Leuven in 1003. He was killed by Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine in battle for Godfrey's claim of Count of Verdun.

 

He was the son of Regnier III, Count of Hainaut and Adela, brother of Reginar IV, Count of Mons, husband of Gerberga of Lower Lorraine,[1] and father of [2]:

 

Henry I of Leuven

Lambert II, Count of Leuven, married Oda of Verdun.

Reinier

Matilda of Leuven (Maud)

 

NOTES:

1 Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines: 148-20, 148-21, 155-20, 155-21.

2 Jaarboek voor Middeleeuwse geschiedenis, Uitgeverij Verloren, 1998 Google Books2

Sources

1Weis, Frederick Lewis & Sheppard, Walter Lee, Jr, "Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700: Lineages from Alfred the Great, Charlemagne, Malcolm of Scotland, Robert the Strong, and other Historical Individuals". p 143, 148-20; 144, 149-20; 149, 155-20.
2"Wikipedia". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert_I_of_Leuven.