Waleran II of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny (french: links=no, Waléran II de Luxembourg II; german: links=no, Walram II. von Ligny; died 1354), was a French nobleman and member of the
House of Luxembourg
The House of Luxembourg ( lb, D'Lëtzebuerger Haus; french: Maison de Luxembourg; german: Haus Luxemburg) or Luxembourg dynasty was a royal family of the Holy Roman Empire in the Late Middle Ages, whose members between 1308 and 1437 ruled as king ...
. He was Lord of Beauvoir,
Roussy
Roussy-le-Village (; german: Rüttgen) is a commune in the Moselle department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.
See also
* Communes of the Moselle department
The following is a list of the 725 Communes of France, communes of the Moselle (de ...
and
Ligny
Ligny ( wa, Lignè) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Sombreffe, located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
Previously its own municipality, a 1977 fusion of the Belgian municipalities made it an '' ancienne commune'' ...
. He was a son of
Waleran I and his wife, Joan of Beauvoir.
Walram initially inherited the castles of Beauvoir and Roussy from his mother. After the death of his brother
Henry II in 1303, he also inherited his father's Lordship of Ligny.
He died in 1354 and was buried in the church of Notre-Dame in
Cambrai
Cambrai (, ; pcd, Kimbré; nl, Kamerijk), formerly Cambray and historically in English Camerick or Camericke, is a city in the Nord (French department), Nord Departments of France, department and in the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, regio ...
.
He was married to Guyotte (died 1338), the heiress of the Burgraviate of
Lille
Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capital of the Hauts-de-France Regions of France, region, the Pref ...
. Together they had a son:
*
John I John I may refer to:
People
* John I (bishop of Jerusalem)
* John Chrysostom (349 – c. 407), Patriarch of Constantinople
* John of Antioch (died 441)
* Pope John I, Pope from 523 to 526
* John I (exarch) (died 615), Exarch of Ravenna
* John I o ...
(died 1364).
External links
Page at genealogie-mittelalter.de
House of Luxembourg
13th-century births
1354 deaths
Lords of France
14th-century French people
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