Count of Leuven (Louvain)
Events
Date of Birth: about 950.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Cawley.
Date of Death: 12 September 1015.
Place of Death: Florennes (killed in battle).
The date and place are given by Cawley.
Relationships
Father: Régnier III, count of Hainaut.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:785), by Wauters, by Settipani (p. 339), by Le Jan (2001, p. 214), by Nonn, by Weller (p. 439), and by Tanner.
Mother: Adela.
This relationship is given by Le Jan (1995, p. 453) and by Tanner.
Spouse: Gerberga of Lower Lotharingia. Married 991 or after.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:785), by Wauters, by Glocker (p. 302), by Settipani (p. 339), by Nonn, by Weller (p. 440), and by Tanner.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Cawley.)
Hendrik I (died 1038), count of Leuven.
Lambert II, count of Leuven, married Oda von Lothringen.
Matilda married Eustache, count of Boulogne.
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).
Cawley, Charles. “LAMBERT [I] "le Barbu" Comte de Louvain” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.
Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).
Le Jan, Régine. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VIIe - Xe siècle): essai d’anthropologie sociale (Publications de la Sorbonne, 1995).
Le Jan, Régine. Femmes, pouvoir et société dans le haut Moyen Age. (Picard, 2001).
Nonn, Ulrich. "Reginare" in Neue Deutsche Biographie 21 (2003).
Settipani, Christian (with Patrick Van Kerrebrouck). La préhistoire des Capétiens 481-987. Première Partie (Volume 1 of Nouvelle Histoire Généalogique de l’Auguste Maison de France, 1993).
Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).
Wauters, Alphonse, “Lambert I” in Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 11 (Bruxelles:1890-1891).
Weller, Tobias. Die Heiratspolitik des deutschen Hochadels im 12. Jahrhundert. (2004: Böhlau Verlag).