Renaud (or Reginald) (died 973), brother of
Count Werner. According to Eduard Hlawitschka (
de) they were probably members of the so-called "Matfried" noble clan (
de).
Upon the death of
Richer, Count of Mons in 972, who was possibly their brother, Renaud and his brother Werner defended
Mons
Mons (; German and nl, Bergen, ; Walloon and pcd, Mont) is a city and municipality of Wallonia, and the capital of the province of Hainaut, Belgium.
Mons was made into a fortified city by Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut in the 12th century. T ...
from the brothers Reginar IV and Lambert I.
Returning from exile in 973, the sons of Reginar III,
Reginar IV, Count of Mons
Reginar IV, Count of Mons, in Hainaut, (c. 950–1013) was the son of Reginar III, Count of Hainaut, Reginar III who died in exile in Bohemia in 973. Lambert I of Leuven was his brother.
History
His father Reginar III was exiled in 958 as a rebel ...
, and
Lambert I, Count 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 ...
, killed both Renaud and his brother Werner at the battle of Peronne.
References
Sources
* Vanderkindere, L,. ''Régnier IV'', Académie royale de Belgique, Biographie nationale, vol. 19, Bruxelles, 1907
* Warner, David A. (Translator), ''Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thiermar of Merseburg'', Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001
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External links
Medieval Lands Project, Grafen von Zulpich
European nobility
Counts of Mons