Otto II (1065 – after 1131),

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, son of

Arnold I Arnold I may refer to: Clergy * Arnold I of Cologne (c. 1100–1151), Archbishop of Cologne 1137–1151 * Arnold I of Vaucourt (c. 1120–1183), Archbishop of Trier 1169–1183 * Arnold I van Isenburg (died c. 1197), Bishop of Utrecht 1196–1197 * ...

, Count of Chiny, and Adélaïs. He succeeded his father in 1106 and completed the construction of the

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that his father had started in 1070, installing the canons in 1124. The installation of a Cistercian community in Orval in 1131 marked his last appearance in any proceedings. He married Adelaide (Alix) (1068–1124), daughter of

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and Ida of Saxony (widow of Frederick of Lower Lorraine). Their children were: * Ida (died before 1125), married to

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* Oda (died after 1134), married to

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* Hugues, probably died young * Albert of Chiny (before 1131–1162) * Frederick, (died after 1124), Provost at Reims from 1120 * Adalbero II of Chiny-Namur (died 26 March 1145),

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, 1135–1145 * Eustache (died after 1156), married to a daughter of Wiger de

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, Avoué of Liège Saint-Lambert and

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. His son Louis de Lumaine was also Avoué of Hesbaye. Ida (also known as Ida of Namur) and Godfrey I (also known as Godfrey the Bearded, not to be confused with the uncle of his father Henry II, Godfrey) were parents of

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, wife of

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. Oda’s husband Gislebert was son of

Otto, Count of Duras Count Otto of Loon as he was known during his own lifetime (d. abt 1087), was founder of the family of Counts of Duras, and brother of Emmo, Count of Loon, one of the first known counts of Loon. In contemporary and later medieval records he is mainl ...

and therefore the grandson of Giselbert, the first Count of Looz, whose family would eventually be merged with the Counts of Chiny with the marriage of Otto's great-great granddaughter Jeanne, Countess of Chiny, with Arnold IV of Looz. After his death, Otto was succeeded as Count of Chiny by his son Albert.

References

{{reflist * Arlette Laret-Kayser, ''Entre Bar et Luxembourg : Le Comté de Chiny des Origines à 1300'', Bruxelles (éditions du Crédit Communal, Collection Histoire, série in-8°, n° 72), 1986
Comtes de Chiny
Medieval Lands Project. Counts of Chiny 1065 births 12th-century deaths