Henry I was the
Count of Louvain
The Counts of Louvain were a branch of the Lotharingian House of Reginar which from the late 10th century ruled over the estates of Louvain ('' French'') or Leuven (''Dutch'') in Lower Lorraine.
History
The likely ancestor of the Reginars, Gil ...
from 1015 until 1038. He was a member of the
House of Reginar
The Reginarids (or Regnarids, Regniers, Reiniers, etc.) were a family of magnates in Lower Lotharingia during the Carolingian and Ottonian period. Their modern name is derived from the personal name which many members of the family bore, and which ...
.
He was a child of Count
Lambert I of Louvain
Count Lambert "the Bearded" (c. 950 - 12 September 1015) was the first person to be described as a count of Leuven (French ''Louvain'') in a surviving contemporary record, being described this way relatively late in life, in 1003. He is also the ...
and his wife,
Gerberga, daughter of Duke
Charles of Lower Lorraine. Henry succeeded his father on his father's death in 1015.
Henry married an unnamed woman and had three daughters but no sons. Without a male heir, he was succeeded by his brother,
Lambert II.
House of Reginar
Counts of Louvain
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