Arnold I, Count of Loon
Arnold I, Count of Loon | |
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Born | 1045 |
Died | 1125 |
Arnold I (b. about 1045 - d. about 1125),
He was an ally of Henry of Verdun and Otbert, both bishops of Liège. In 1078, he endowed the collegiate churches of Huy and of St. John at Liège.
In 1088, he negotiated at the request of Bishop Henry of Verdun to end a conflict in the abbey of Sint-Truiden where the bishop and emperor Henry IV had appointed rival abbots. As a result of his diplomacy, the emperor transferred the authority of the abbey from Henry I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, to Arnold.[citation needed] Arnold forced Henry and his ally Godfrey of Bouillon, to withdraw from the monastery.
The domain of Arnold expanded with the County of Rieneck by his marriage to Agnes of Mainz, daughter of Gerhard I, Count of Rieneck, and Helwig von Bliescastel. Sources disagree on their number of children, but they are believed to include:
- Arnold II, Count of Looz. He is distinguished from his father of the same name by historians who note records for counts named Arnold or Arnulf between 1179 and 1141, which seems too long to be one person. The first Arnold must have died between 1125 when Count Arnold appears in a record with his son also named Arnold, and 1135, when a new Count Arnold appears with his own son and successor Louis.[1]
- Gertrude van Loon (1100–1154), married to Hugo XI, Manuel I Comnenus, the emperor of Byzantium. Their granddaughter was Gertrude of Dagsburg, wife of Theobald I, King of Navarre.
- Agnes van Loon (born c. 1100), married Gerhard IV, Count of Jülich
- Beatrix van Loon (died after 1132), married Arnout III, Count of Aarschot and had issue.
Another son,
Sources
- ^ See for example Baerten.