Renaud (or Reginald) (died 973), brother of
Count Werner. According to Eduard Hlawitschka (
de) they were probably members of the so-called "
Matfriede The Matfriede or Matfriedinger, both of which are German terms, is a Frankish noble family of the 9th-11th centuries, or possibly several families who used similar names, that has been proposed by modern historians.
The name of the family is based ...
" noble clan.
Upon the death of
Richer, Count of Mons in 972, who was possibly their brother, Renaud and his brother Werner defended
Mons
Mons commonly refers to:
* Mons, Belgium, a city in Belgium
* Mons pubis (mons Venus or mons veneris), in mammalian anatomy, the adipose tissue lying above the pubic bone
* Mons (planetary nomenclature), a sizable extraterrestrial mountain
* Batt ...
from the brothers Reginar IV and Lambert I.
Returning from exile in 973, the sons of Reginar III,
Reginar IV, Count of Mons
Reginar IV, Count of Mons, in Hainaut, (c. 950–1013) was the son of Reginar III and Adela. His father died in exile in Bohemia in 973.
History
His father, Reginar III, was exiled in 958 as a rebel by Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor. Hainaut was hel ...
, and
Lambert I, Count 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 ...
, killed both Renaud and his brother Werner at the battle of Peronne.
References
Sources
* Vanderkindere, L,. ''Régnier IV'', Académie royale de Belgique, Biographie nationale, vol. 19, Bruxelles, 1907
* Warner, David A. (Translator), ''Ottonian Germany: The Chronicon of Thiermar of Merseburg'', Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2001
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Counts of Mons
10th-century counts in Europe
Military personnel killed in action