Régnier II, count of Hainaut

Also known as Reginar II.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: about 932.

Place of Death: unknown.

The date is given by Le Jan (p. 214).

Relationships

Father: Régnier I.

This relationship is given by the Biographie Nationale de Belgique (18:875), by Le Jan (1995, p. 453; 2001, p. 214), by Nonn, by Weller (p. 439), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Alberada.

This relationship is given by the Biographie Nationale de Belgique (18:875), by Le Jan (1995, p. 453; 2001, p. 214), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: unknown.

Le Jan (1995, p. 453) gives a sister of Count Boso and King Raoul of Burgundy.

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.)

Régnier III (about 920 - 973), count of Hainaut.

Rudolf, count of Maasgau, count of Hesbaie.

Lietard.

a daughter married Nibelung, count of Betuwe.

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).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Regnier I” in The Henry Project. (2008)

Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 18 (Bruxelles:1905).

Cawley, Charles. “REGINAR (II)” in Medieval Lands: A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families.

Le Jan, Régine. Famille et pouvoir dans le monde franc (VII^e - X^e 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).

Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).

Weller, Tobias. Die Heiratspolitik des deutschen Hochadels im 12. Jahrhundert. (2004: Böhlau Verlag).