Alix de Namur

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: July 1168.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Godfrey, count of Namur.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:757), by Nabran, by Rousseau (p. cxii), and by Genicot (p. 45, p. 287).

Mother: Ermensende de Luxembourg.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:757), by Nabran, and by Rousseau (p. cxii).

Spouse: Baldwin IV “le Bâtisseur”, count of Hainaut.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:776), by Smet, by Nabran, by Rousseau (p. cxii), and by Genicot (p. 45, p. 287).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Yolende married (1) Ivo, count of Soissons; married (2) Hugh IV, count of Saint Pol.

Agnès married Raoul of Coucy.

Laureta (died 9 August 1181) married (1) Thierry of Alost; married (2) Bouchard V of Montmorency.

Godfrey (1147 - 7 April 1163) married Eleanor of Vermandois.

Baldwin V (1150 - 17 December 1195) married Marguerite d’Alsace.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Genicot, Léopold. Études sur les principautés lotharingiennes, (Louvain, 1975).

Gilbert of Mons. Chronicle of Hainaut . (Laura Napran, trans.). (The Boydell Press, 2005).

Rousseau, Félix. Actes des comtes de Namur de la première race 946-1196 (Brussels, 1936).

Smet, J.-J. de, “Baudouin IV” in Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 1 (Bruxelles:1866).