Léon I d’Aa

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 XIII^e 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).