Albert II of Namur was Count of

Namur Namur (; ; ) is a city and municipality in Wallonia, Belgium. It is the capital both of the province of Namur and of Wallonia, hosting the Parliament of Wallonia, the Government of Wallonia and its administration. Namur stands at the confl ...

from the death of his elder brother Robert II to his death in 1067. They were the sons of

Albert I Albert I may refer to: People Born before 1300 * Albert I, Count of Vermandois (917–987) * Albert I, Count of Namur () * Albert I of Moha *Albert I of Brandenburg (), first margrave of Brandenburg * Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (1158–1195) *Al ...

, and Ermengarde, daughter of duke

Charles of Lower Lorraine Charles (c. 953 – 22 June 992/995?) was the duke of Lower Lorraine from 977 until his death. Life Born at Reims in the summer of 953, Charles was the son of Louis IV of France and Gerberga of Saxony and the younger brother of King Lothair. H ...

Biography

In 1037, Albert participated in the

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against

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, who was seeking to claim for himself the inheritance of his uncle,

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, which in 1032 had passed to

Conrad II Conrad II (, – 4 June 1039), also known as and , was the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire from 1027 until his death in 1039. The first of a succession of four Salian emperors, who reigned for one century until 1125, Conrad ruled the kingdom ...

and been incorporated into the

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. In 1046, Albert supported

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in his fight against

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, and

Baldwin V, Count of Flanders Baldwin V ( 1012 – 1 September 1067) was Count of Flanders from 1035 until his death. He secured the personal union between the counties of Flanders and Hainaut and maintained close links to the Anglo-Saxon monarchy, which was overthrown by ...

. In 1047, he founded the

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of St. Albinus at Namur, which became Namur cathedral in 1559.

Marriages and issue

Between 1010 and 1015 Albert married Regelinde (d. 1067) daughter of Gothelo I, Count of Verdun and Duke of Lorraine and had the following issue: * Albert III (–1102) *

Henry I, Count of Durbuy Henry I (died 1097), Counts of Durbuy, Count of Durbuy, son of Albert II, Count of Namur, and Regilende, daughter of Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine, Gothelo I, Count of Verdun and Duke of Lorraine. Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, Emperor Henry IV confir ...

(d. 1097 in

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) * Hedwige of Namur, married

Gerard, Duke of Lorraine Gerard ( 1030 – 14 April 1070), also known as Gerard the Wonderful, was a Lotharingian nobleman. He was the count of Metz and Châtenois from 1047 to 1048, when his brother Duke Adalbert resigned them to him upon his becoming the Duke of Upp ...

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