Reginar V (c. 995–1039), was the eldest son of

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

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. His maternal grandparents were

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and

Adelaide of Aquitaine Adbelahide, Adele, Adela or Adelaide of Aquitaine (also known as Adelaide of Poitiers; c. 945 or 952 – 1004), was Queen of France by marriage to Hugh Capet, King of the Franks (c. 939 – 14 October 996). Adelaide and Hugh were the founders of t ...

. Reginar inherited his father's precarious position as count of Mons, which was a part of Hainaut, and through his marriage to a member of his family's traditional enemies, the

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, he not only consolidated that position, but also gained comital status in the neighbouring southwestern part of Brabant. This included the frontier fort at

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which faced the powerful

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in the

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, who had taken control of the western part of Hainaut in

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History and Family

He succeeded his father as

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in 1013. He married

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, daughter of

Herman, Count of Verdun Herman (or Hezelo) of Ename (died 28 May 1029), was a count in what is now Belgium, who was responsible to the emperor for holding the frontier fort at Ename (sometimes spelled "Eename") in the Pagus of Brabant, which faced the County of Flanders i ...

and his wife Mathilde. He also acquired the southern part of the

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province around 1024. He was succeeded as Count of Mons by his son

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, who was married to Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut. Upon the death of Herman, control of the county passed to Richilde's second husband,

Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders Baldwin VI ( 1030 – 17 July 1070), also known as Baldwin the Good, was Count of Hainaut from 1051 to 1070 (as Baldwin I) and Count of Flanders from 1067 to 1070. Baldwin was the eldest son of Baldwin V of Flanders and Adela, a daughter of Kin ...

Sources

* Napran, Laura (Translator), ''Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut'', Boydell Press, Suffolk, 2005 * Varenbergh, Emile, ''Herman, Académie royale de Belgique, Biographie nationale, vol. 9'', Bruxelles, 1887 étail des éditions p. 257-258
Medieval Lands Project, Comtes de Hainaut, 998-1051, Reginar Family
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