Henry I was the Count of Louvain from 1015 until 1038. He was a member of the

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. Henry was a child of Count

Lambert I of Louvain Count Lambert "the Bearded" ( 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 ...

and his wife, Gerberga, daughter of Duke Charles of Lower Lorraine. Henry succeeded his father on his father's death in 1015. He was assassinated in 1038 by a knight named Hermann who was his prisoner. Without a male heir, he was succeeded by his brother, Lambert II

Marriage and children

Henry's wife, whose name is not recorded in history, gave birth to

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, who succeeded Henry in 1038. His existence is disputed. A 19th century genealogy, Genealogica ex Stirpe Sancti Arnulfi descendentium Mettensis(in Latin
Monumenta Germanica Historica, Scriptores, tomus XXV: Genealogica ex Stirpe Sancti Arnulfi descendentium Mettensis, par. 4, pag. 383
also attributes three daughters to Henri (Adelaide, Cunegonde and Adele), but it seems that they were daughters of another Henry, descendant of the counts of Louvain, who lived around 1100.

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* House of Reginar Counts of Louvain 11th-century counts in Europe {{Belgium-stub