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Reginar II, Count Of Hainaut
Reginar (or Rainier) II (890–932) was Lotharingian magnate who was active from approximately 915 to 932. He was brother of Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine, Duke Gilbert of Lotharingia, who died at the Battle of Andernach in 939, and because his son and grandson claimed it, he probably already personally held the fort of Mons in County of Hainaut, Hainaut as the seat of a county. History He was the son of Reginar I Longneck, and this means his paternal grandmother was possibly a daughter of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude of Orléans, Ermentrude. Flodoard's Annals, reports under the year 924 that Reginar the brother of Duke Gilbert of Lotharingia already had a son who was given as a hostage during conflicts between several of the Lotharingian magnates of the time. By 943 he was dead, because a charter made in favor of his widowed daughter was done partly in the name of atoning for his sins.Vanderkindere, Léon, ‘A propos d´une charte de Baldéric d’Utrecht’, in: ''Académie roy ...
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Count Of Hainaut
The Count of Hainaut (; ; ) was the ruler of the county of Hainaut, a historical region in the Low Countries (including the modern countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of northern France and western Germany). In English-language historical sources, the title is often given the archaic spelling Hainault. List of counts of Hainaut 10th century *(uncertain) Reginar I, Count of Hainaut, Reginar I (d. 915) *Sigard, Count of Hainaut, Sigard (fl. 902–920), also Count of Liège *(uncertain) Regnier II, Count of Hainault, Reginar II (r. 920–after 932) *(uncertain) Reginar III, Count of Hainaut, Reginar III (r. before 940–958) *Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Godfrey I (r. before 958–964), also Duke of Lower Lotharingia *Richar, Count of Mons, Richar (r. 964–973), also Count of Liège The County of Hainaut was then divided between the counties of Mons and Valenciennes. Counts of Mons *(uncertain) Reginald, Count of Mons, Renaud (r. 973) *Godfrey I, C ...
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Ermentrude Of Orléans
Ermentrude of Orléans (27 September 823 – 6 October 869) was the List of Queens and Empresses of France, Queen of the Franks by her marriage to Charles the Bald, Charles II. Queenship The traditional historiography on queenship has created an image of a queen who a king's "helpmate" and provider of heirs. Pauline Stafford, P.Stafford has examined queenship in a lot of depth, using Ermentrude's role in the Carolingian dynasty. They had power within the royal household and partially within the court. Their official duty was running the royal household smoothly, such as directing the children's education, supervising the staff and managing the private royal treasury. They unofficially acted as hostesses, ensuring the royal family was not involved in scandals and giving gifts to high-ranking officials in a society where this was important to maintain bonds. As a result, queens were expected to act as wise, loyal and chaste women. In particular, Ermentrude was described by a ...
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Blason Fr Hainaut Ancien
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the blazon, codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is Blazoen, and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric. History The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, irony, ironically rejecting each proposed stock metaphor, is William Shakespeare's S ...
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Counts Of Hainaut
The Count of Hainaut (; ; ) was the ruler of the county of Hainaut, a historical region in the Low Countries (including the modern countries of Belgium, the Netherlands, Luxembourg and parts of northern France and western Germany). In English-language historical sources, the title is often given the archaic spelling Hainault. List of counts of Hainaut 10th century *(uncertain) Reginar I, Count of Hainaut, Reginar I (d. 915) *Sigard, Count of Hainaut, Sigard (fl. 902–920), also Count of Liège *(uncertain) Regnier II, Count of Hainault, Reginar II (r. 920–after 932) *(uncertain) Reginar III, Count of Hainaut, Reginar III (r. before 940–958) *Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, Godfrey I (r. before 958–964), also Duke of Lower Lotharingia *Richar, Count of Mons, Richar (r. 964–973), also Count of Liège The County of Hainaut was then divided between the counties of Mons and Valenciennes. Counts of Mons *(uncertain) Reginald, Count of Mons, Renaud (r. 973) *Godfrey I, C ...
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Nibelung, Count Of Betuwe
Count Nibelung or Nevelung (born c. 890–900, died before 943), son of Ricfried, Count of Betuwe, Count Ricfried and his wife Herensinda. He was probably his father's heir, and like his father he was probably a count in Betuwe (Batavia (region), Batavia), and more generally in the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta region, now in the Netherlands, and the neighbouring northern Rhineland in Germany. His better-known brother was Balderic of Utrecht, Bishop Balderic of Utrecht (bishop of Utrecht 918–975). Nevelung is mentioned on the grave monument of his parents which was in Utrecht. The text was transcribed before the monument was removed. He was described there as a count (''"comes Nevelongus"''). Nibelung married a daughter of Reginar II, Count of Hainaut. This was demonstrated by independently by both Joseph Daris and Vanderkindere from the text of a grant made by Nevelung's brother, Bishop Balderic, which was addressed to Nevelung's wife after he had died.The 943 grant is reproduced in ...
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Counts Of Hesbaye
The ''pagus'' or ''Gau (territory), gau'' of ''Hasbania'' was a large Early Middle Ages, early medieval territory in what is now eastern Belgium. It is now approximated by the modern French- and Dutch-speaking region called Hesbaye in French, or ''Haspengouw'' in Dutch — both being terms derived from the medieval one. Unlike many smaller ''pagi'' of the period, ''Hasbania'' apparently never corresponded to a single county. It already contained several in the 9th century. It is therefore described as a "" (large gau), like the Pagus of Brabant, by modern German historians such as Ulrich Nonn. The Hesbaye region was a core agricultural territory for the early Franks who settled in the Roman ''Civitas Tungrorum'', which was one of the main parts of early Frankish Austrasia, and later Lotharingia. The region was also culturally important, a central part of what is referred to in art history as the Mosan art, Mosan region. It contained a substantial Romanized population and the seat ...
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Rudolf, Count Of Hesbaye
Count Rudolf (living 944), was a count in Lower Lotharingia, who apparently held possessions in Counts of Hesbaye, Hesbaye and the nearby Meuse river. He was a son of Reginar II, Count of Hainaut, and thus a member of the so-called Regnarid dynasty. There are no records which designate him clearly as count of any specific whole geographical county. Counties called Avernas and Huste were counties belonging to a count or counts named Rudolf in this period, and it has been proposed that this may have been the brother of Reginar. Attestations Rudolf is only clearly mentioned in two records as brother of Reginar III, Count of Hainaut, Reginar III: *Their uncle Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine, who was senior member of their family was killed in 939 at the Battle of Andernach, and Otto the Great, King Otto the Great took firm control of Lotharingia. Flodoard reported that in 944, Rudolf and his brother were allied with Louis IV of France, King Louis IV of France, and Hugh the Great, Duke of th ...
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Richard, Duke Of Burgundy
Richard, Duke of Burgundy (858–921), also known as Richard of Autun or Richard the Justiciar, was Count of Autun from 880 and the first Margrave and Duke of Burgundy. He eventually attained suzerainty over all the counties of Burgundy save Mâcon and by 890 he was referred to as ''dux'' (duke) and by 900 as ''marchio'' (margrave). By 918 he was being called ''dux Burgundionem'' or ''dux Burgundiae'', which probably signified less the existence of a unified Burgundian dukedom than feudal suzerainty over a multiplicity of counties in a specific region. Life Richard was a Bosonid, the son of Bivin of Gorze and Richildis. His elder brother was Boso of Provence and his younger sister was Richildis, second wife of Charles the Bald. In 875, after the death of the Emperor Louis II, Richard and Boso accompanied Charles to Italy for his imperial coronation. In February 876, in Pavia, while preparing for his return journey, Charles nominated Boso "Duke and Viceroy of Italy and Duke o ...
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Flodoard
Flodoard of Reims (; 893/4 – 28 March 966) was a Frankish chronicler and priest of the cathedral church of Reims in the West Frankish kingdom during the decades following the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. His historical writings are major sources for the history of Western Europe, especially France, in the early and mid-tenth century. Biography The sources for Flodoard's life are almost exclusively his own writings. Local tradition holds that he was born at Épernay. He was educated at the cathedral school of Reims which had been established by Archbishop Fulk. As a young canon of Reims, he gained prominent roles in the administrations of the archbishops Heriveus (900–22) and Seulf (922–25), particularly in the cathedral scriptorium. Following Seulf's death in 925, the magnate Herbert II, Count of Vermandois installed his four-year-old son, Hugh, as the new archbishop. Flodoard refused to participate in the boy's election, and was stripped of his position and b ...
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Charles The Bald
Charles the Bald (french: Charles le Chauve; 13 June 823 – 6 October 877), also known as Charles II, was a 9th-century king of West Francia (843–877), king of Italy (875–877) and emperor of the Carolingian Empire (875–877). After a series of civil wars during the reign of his father, Louis the Pious, Charles succeeded, by the Treaty of Verdun (843), in acquiring the western third of the empire. He was a grandson of Charlemagne and the youngest son of Louis the Pious by his second wife, Judith. Struggle against his brothers He was born on 13 June 823 in Frankfurt, when his elder brothers were already adults and had been assigned their own ''regna'', or subkingdoms, by their father. The attempts made by Louis the Pious to assign Charles a subkingdom, first Alemannia and then the country between the Meuse and the Pyrenees (in 832, after the rising of Pepin I of Aquitaine) were unsuccessful. The numerous reconciliations with the rebellious Lothair and Pepin, as well as ...
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Reginar III, Count Of Hainaut
Reginar III (c. 920 – 973) was Count of Hainaut from approximately 940 until his exile in 958. He was the son of Reginar II, Count of Hainaut. He took part in the rebellion of his uncle Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. When Gilbert was killed in 939, Reginar had to pledge fealty to King Otto the Great. He then allied himself with King Louis IV of France, but King Otto sent duke Hermann of Swabia to quell the rebels in 944.''The annals of Flodoard of Reims'', 919-966, S. Fanning and David. S. Bachrach trans., in: Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures 9 (Peterborough etc. 2004) p.11. Also Latin edition available at dmgh.de, MGH SS 3, J. Heller and G. Waitz, eds (Hannover 1881). Otto appointed Conrad the Red as duke of Lotharingia, who tried to diminish the power of Reginar. However, when Conrad rose against Otto, Reginar supported him. In an anarchic situation, Reginar appropriated the dowry of Gerberga of Saxony, Otto's sister and mother of the French king, and also chu ...
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