Henry III (Earl of Louvain)

Henry III of Louvain
Henry III of Louvain
	fr. Henri III de Louvain ; him. Heinrich iii von löwen ; niderl. Hendrik iii van leuven
	1078 - 1095
Predecessor	Henry II
Successor	Gottfried I
Landgraf Brabant
	1085 - 1095
Predecessor	Herman II
Successor	Gottfried I
Birth	;
Death	February or March 1095; ;
Burial place	;
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Father	Henry II of Louvain
Mother	Adela Betiuve
Spouse	Gertrude of Flanders
Children	four daughters

Henry III ( French Henri III de Louvain , German Heinrich III von Löwen , Dutch Hendrik III van Leuven ; died in February or March 1095 ) - Count of Louvain and Brussels ( 1078 - 1095 ), Landgrave Brabant (from 1085 ), the son of Count Henry II , Count of Louvain and Brussels, and Adela, daughter of Eberhard, Count of Betuve.

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After the death of the Palatine Count of Lorraine Herman II on September 20, 1085 in Dahlem , Henry managed to obtain the Brabant Landgrafism from Emperor Henry IV in temporary possession. Landgrafism was located between Dender and Senna . Moreover, the landgrave was a direct vassal of the emperor and did not obey the duke of Lower Lorraine. Around 1091, Henry was considered the most powerful man in Lower Lorraine ^[1] .

Hermann from Tournai (c. 1140 ) wrote that Henry III was popular during his lifetime: he drove out robbers ^[2] . In July 1086, Heinrich donated an allod to Affligem Abbey , with an area of about 300 hectares near Asse .

In February or March 1095, at the invitation of Everard from Tournai, Henry took part in a knightly tournament. He was mortally wounded by the knight Gosvin de Foret. Henry III is buried in the abbey in Nivelles . The next Earl of Leuven and Brussels was the brother of Heinrich Gottfried .

Marriage and children

Heinrich was married to Gertrude ( 1080 - 1117 ), daughter of Robert of Frisia , Count of Flanders . Modern sources mention four nameless daughters born in this marriage. Two daughters were identified:

Adelheid (Adelaide), married to Simon I , Duke of Lorraine
Gertrude, possibly married to Lamert, Earl of Montague and Clermont.

Gertrude, the widow of Henry, married in 1096 the Duke of Upper Lorraine Thierry II , whose son, her daughter Adelheid, married from Simon's first marriage. In the marriage of Dietrich and Gertrude, Thierry of Alsace , Count of Flanders , was born.

Notes

↑ MGH, Scriptores X, Rodulfi Gesta abbatis Trudonensis, 250: Heynricus tunc potentior habebatur in nostris partibus
↑ MGH, Scriptores XIV, Hermanni liber de restauratione S. Martini Tornacensis, 282.

[1] MGH, Scriptores X, Rodulfi Gesta abbatis Trudonensis, 250: Heynricus tunc potentior habebatur in nostris partibus

[2] MGH, Scriptores XIV, Hermanni liber de restauratione S. Martini Tornacensis, 282.