Walram II (Zweibrücken)
Walram II may refer to: * Walram II of Limburg (c. 1085–1139) * Walram II, Count of Nassau Walram II of Nassau, german: Walram II. von Nassau (Cawley.Dek (1970). – 24 January 1276), was Count of Nassau and is the ancestor of the Walramian branch of the House of Nassau. Life Walram was the second son of Count Henry II of Nassau and ...

Walram II Of Limburg
Waleran II (or Walram II) ( 1085 – 1139), also called Paganus, probably due to a late baptism, was the Duke of Limburg and Count of Arlon ( ''de'') from his father's death in about 1119 until his own twenty years later. He was given the Duchy of Lower Lorraine by Lothair III, Holy Roman Emperor in 1128 after the latter's accession as King of Germany in 1125. Life Waleran was the son of Henry, Duke of Lower Lorraine (1101–1106), and Adelaide of Pottenstein (Adelheid von Botenstein). Henry had been forced to yield the duchy to Godfrey I of Leuven on Henry V's succession, but had kept the ducal title. With the coming of Lothair, Godfrey was forced to yield it to Waleran. Godfrey was not willing to do so and war broke out, especially over disputes about the advocats of the abbey of Sint-Truiden, the Counts of Duras. In 1129, Waleran and the bishop of Liège, Alexandre de Juliers, defeated Godfrey's forces at Wilderen, near Duras, but Brabant and Duras subsequently continu ...
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