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Henry II Count of Limbourg
(Abt 1111-1167)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Matilda of Saffenberg

2. Imaine of Looz

Henry II Count of Limbourg 1 2

  • Born: Abt 1111
  • Marriage (1): Matilda of Saffenberg
  • Marriage (2): Imaine of Looz
  • Died: Aug 1167 about age 56

   Another name for Henry was Henry II of Limburg.

  Research Notes:

From Wikipedia - Henry II of Limburg :

Henry II (c. 1111 - August 1167) was the duke of Limburg from 1139 and count of Arlon from 1147 to his death. He was the son of Waleran, Duke of Lower Lorraine , and Jutta of Guelders. He succeeded his father in Limburg with the title of duke, but Conrad III refused grant him Lower Lorraine. He continued to style himself as duke nevertheless.
Henry refused at first to accept the loss of Lorraine and attacked the new duke, Godfrey VII . He was defeated. Godfrey died in 1142, but Henry was occupied with a war against the lord of Fauquemont and did not assert any claim to the duchy of Lower Lorraine.
In 1147, he inherited Arlon, his younger brother Waleran having died without children. Conrad confirmed this, for he had promised Henry a fief to compensate for the loss of Lorraine, and the duke and the king were reconciled. Henry did not take part in the Second Crusade that year, however. Henry attended the coronation of Conrad's successor, Frederick Barbarossa .
At that time, Henry was involved in a war with Henry IV of Luxembourg . The town of Andenne was taken and completely plundered and burned. Then Henry turned to Godfrey VIII , but they soon made peace in 1155. Henry's daughter Margaret married Godfrey.
Henry took part in Barbarossa's Italian campaigns, dying during the epidemic of 1167 at Rome .

  Noted events in his life were:

• Duke of Limburg, 1139-1167.

• Count of Arlon, 1147-1167.


Henry married Matilda of Saffenberg, daughter of Adolph Count of Saffenberg and Unknown.


Henry next married Imaine of Looz, daughter of Louis I Count of Looz and Unknown.


Sources


1 Weis, Frederick Lewis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr; William R. Beall and Kaleen E. Beall, eds, <i>Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700</i> (8th ed. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2008.), Line 155-25 (Godfrey III).

2 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Henry II of Limburg.


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