Albert II of Namur was Count of
Namur from the death of his elder brother
Robert II to his death in 1067. They were the sons of
Albert I, and Ermengarde, daughter of duke
Charles of Lower Lorraine.
Biography
In 1037, Albert participated in the
Battle of Bar-le-Duc against
Odo II, Count of Blois
Odo II () (983 – 15 November 1037) was the count of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun, Beauvais and Tours from 1004 and count of Troyes (as Odo IV) and Meaux (as Odo I) from 1022. He twice tried to make himself a king: first in Italy after 1024 a ...
, who was seeking to claim for himself the inheritance of his uncle,
Rudolph III of Burgundy
Rudolph III (french: Rodolphe, german: Rudolf; – 6 September 1032), called the Idle or the Pious, was the king of Burgundy from 993 until his death. He was the last ruler of an independent Kingdom of Burgundy, and the last male member of the Bu ...
, which in 1032 had passed to
Conrad II and been incorporated into the
Holy Roman Empire
The Holy Roman Empire was a political entity in Western, Central, and Southern Europe that developed during the Early Middle Ages and continued until its dissolution in 1806 during the Napoleonic Wars.
From the accession of Otto I in 962 ...
. In 1046, Albert supported
Emperor Henry III
Henry III (28 October 1016 – 5 October 1056), called the Black or the Pious, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1046 until his death in 1056. A member of the Salian dynasty, he was the eldest son of Conrad II and Gisela of Swabia.
Henry was raised by ...
in his fight against
Godfrey III, Duke of Lower Lorraine
Godfrey III ( 997 – 1069), called the Bearded, was the eldest son of Gothelo I, Duke of Upper and Lower Lorraine.
Biography Disputed succession
By inheritance, Godfrey was Count of Verdun and he became Margrave of Antwerp as a vassal ...
, and
Baldwin V, Count of Flanders.
In 1047, he founded the
collegiate church In Christianity, a collegiate church is a church where the daily office of worship is maintained by a college of canons: a non-monastic or "secular" community of clergy, organised as a self-governing corporate body, which may be presided over by ...
of St. Albinus at Namur, which became
Namur cathedral in 1559.
Marriages and issue
Between 1010 and 1015 he married Regelinde (d. 1067) daughter of
Gothelo I, Count of Verdun and Duke of Lorraine and had the following issue:
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Albert III (–1102)
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Henry I, Count of Durbuy (d. 1097 in
Palestine)
* Hedwige of Namur, married
Gerard, Duke of Lorraine
Gerard ( – 14 April 1070), also known as Gerard the Wonderful, was a Lotharingian nobleman. He was the count of Metz and Châtenois from 1047 to 1048, when his brother Duke Adalbert resigned them to him upon his becoming the Duke of Upper Lorr ...
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Counts of Namur
House of Namur
10th-century births
1067 deaths
11th-century people of the Holy Roman Empire