Godfrey III, Count of Louvain
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Godfrey III | |
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House of Reginar | |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret of Limbourg Imagina of Looz |
| Issue | Henry I, Duke of Brabant Saint Albert, Prince-Bishop of Liège William Godfrey |
| Father | Godfrey II, Count of Louvain |
| Mother | Luitgarde of Sulzbach |
Godfrey III (
Origins
Godfrey was the son of Godfrey II and Luitgarde of Sulzbach.[1] He was still an infant at his succession (therefore called dux in cunis) of which a few Brabantian vassals sought to take advantage to become independent of the duke (Wars of Grimbergen, 1141–1159).
Career
On 30 March 1147, Godfrey was present at the coronation of
In 1159 Godfrey ended the war with the Berthout, lords of
Between 1182 and 1184 Godfrey went on a Jerusalem campaign. In the interim, Barbarossa granted Henry the title "Duke of Brabant". Godfrey died in 1190, on 10 or 21 August. He left an increased territory and built the fortress of Nedelaer (near Vilvoorde). The ducal title was transmitted to his son at the Diet of Schwäbisch Hall (September 1190).
Marriages and children
Godfrey married twice:
- Firstly, to Margaret of Limbourg, daughter of Henry II, Duke of Limburg,[2] in 1158, by whom he had two children:
- count of Louvainin 1183, until 1198. He was installed as Duke of Brabant in 1191.
- Albert de Louvain (1166 – 24 November 1192). Albert was elected Bishop of Louvain (Liege) in 1191, but assassinated in Reims in 1192.[4]
- Secondly, Godfrey married Imagina of Loon,[3] daughter of Louis I, Count of Loon, by whom he had two children:
- William of Louvain, Lord of Perwez en Ruysbroek.[3] He married Marie of Orbais, daughter of Enguerrand of Orbais.
- Godfrey of Louvain (d. 1226), who went to England in 1196 and became Senechal of the Honour of Eye. He married Alice de Hastings, daughter and heiress of Robert de Hastings (d. c. 1190), feudal baron of Little Easton in Essex,[5] by whom he had:
- Matthew de Lovaine, Lord of Little Easton, Seneschal of the Honour of Eye (b. about 1202 in Little Easton – d. 1 June 1258 in Little Easton)
References
- ^ Frans Theuws and Nico Roymans, Land and Ancestors: Cultural Dynamics in the Urnfield Period and the Middle Ages in the Southern Netherlands, (Amsterdam University Press, 1999), 331.
- ^ Loud & Schenk 2017, p. xxix.
- ^ a b c van der Steen 2015, p. 2015.
- ^ Raymond H. Schmandt, The Election and Assassination of Albert of Louvain, Bishop of Liège, 1191-92, Speculum, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Oct., 1967), pp. 639-660, JSTOR
- ^ Sanders, I.J., English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.130, Little Easton
Further reading
- Loud, Graham A.; Schenk, Jochen, eds. (2017). The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350: Essays by German Historians. Routledge.
- van der Steen, Jasper (2015). Memory Wars in the Low Countries, 1566-1700. Brill.
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