Conrad II of Luxembourg (died 1136) was
Count of Luxembourg
The territory of Luxembourg has been ruled successively by counts, dukes and grand dukes. It was part of the medieval Kingdom of Germany, and later the Holy Roman Empire until it became a sovereignty, sovereign state in 1815.
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from 1131 until his death in 1136, succeeding his father
William, Count of Luxembourg
William I, Count of Luxembourg (1081–1131) was Count of Luxembourg from 1096 until his death in 1131, succeeding his elder brother Henry III of Luxembourg. They were both sons of Conrad I and Clementia of Aquitaine. William was the first of hi ...
. His mother was Mathilde or Luitgarde of Northeim.
Conrad II married
Ermengarde Ermengarde or Ermengard or Ermingarde or Irmingard or Irmgard is a feminine given name of Germanic origin derived from the Germanic words "ermen/irmin," meaning "whole, universal" and "gard" meaning "enclosure, protection". Armgarð is a Faroese ver ...
, daughter of
Otto II, Count of Zutphen Otto II, Count of Zutphen was a Dutch nobleman from the early 12th century. Otto was the son of Gottschalk, Count of Zutphen and Adelheid of Zutphen, daughter of Liudolf of Lotharingia, Liudolf himself was grandson of Emperor Otto II and Theophan ...
. Conrad II died without a male heir, and so the county of Luxembourg reverted to the
Holy Roman Emperor
The Holy Roman Emperor, originally and officially the Emperor of the Romans (disambiguation), Emperor of the Romans (; ) during the Middle Ages, and also known as the Roman-German Emperor since the early modern period (; ), was the ruler and h ...
. The emperor in turn did not wish the county to be ruled by Conrad's closest relative Henri de Grandpré, who was a French lord and so might align the county with the
Kingdom of France
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, and so granted it to
Henry of Namur, a cousin of Conrad's.
1136 deaths
12th-century monarchs of Luxembourg
Counts of Luxembourg
Year of birth unknown
House of Luxembourg
12th-century counts in Europe
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