Also known as Lionnet I de Bruxelles et d’Aa.
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Living: about 1130, 1143, 1145.
Wauters states that Léon appears in charters of these dates.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Antoine.
This relationship is given by Nys (p. 224), citing Van der Rest (which I have not seen). Wauters (1:4) gives Léon’s father as Steppo de Bruxelles. Charruadas (p. 238) calls Léon a probable descendant of Steppo.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: unknown.
Spouse: Ave, heiress of Onulphe of Wolverthem.
This relationship is given by Wauters (1:4).
Children:
Berthe d’Anderlecht.
Antoine
Léon II d’Aa (died about 1168) married Mathilde.
Gilette de Bruxelles married Goswin d’Enghien.
References
Charruadas, Paulo. Croissance rurale et essor urbain à Bruxelles: Les dynamiques d’une société entre ville et campagnes (1000-1300) (Académie Royale de Belgique, 2011). [Digital copy at the website of the Académie Royale de Belgique]
Nys, Suzanne. “Le chapitre de Saint-Pierre d’Anderlecht dès origines à la fin du XIIIe siècle” in Cahiers Bruxellois IX pp. 189-291 (1964).
Van der Rest, Anne. “La noblesse en Brabant” in Brabantica 5 (1960).
Van der Rest, Anne. “La famille d’Aa” in Brabantica 6 (1962) pp. 14-46.
Wauters, Alphonse. Histoire des environs de Bruxelles vol. 1 (Brussels, 1855).