Albert I, Count of Namur
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Albert I was the son of Robert I, Count of Lomme. He became Count of Namur in 998
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He married Ermengarde, daughter of Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine
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Year 998 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar.- Europe :* Otto III retakes the city of Rome and reinstates his cousin, Pope Gregory V, after mutilating and blinding his rival, Antipope John XVI.* St...
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He married Ermengarde, daughter of Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine
Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine
Charles of Lorraine was the son of Louis IV of France and Gerberga of Saxony and younger brother of King Lothair. He was a sixth generation descendant of Charlemagne...
, and had three children:
- Liutgard of Namur
- Albert II, Count of NamurMarquis of NamurNamur was a county of the Carolingian and later Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries. Its territories largely correspond with the present-day Belgian arrondissement Namur plus the northwestern part of the arrondissement Dinant....
- Hedwige of Namur, married Gerard, Duke of LorraineGerard, Duke of LorraineGerard IV, Duke of Alsace was the count of Metz and Chatenois from 1047/1048, when his brother Duke Adalbert resigned them to him on becoming the Duke of Upper Lorraine. On Adalbert's death the next year, Gerard became duke and was so until his death...
. They were the great-great-grandparents of Beatrice, who married Emperor Frederick BarbarossaFrederick I, Holy Roman EmperorFrederick I Barbarossa was a German Holy Roman Emperor. He was elected King of Germany at Frankfurt on 4 March 1152 and crowned in Aachen on 9 March, crowned King of Italy in Pavia in 1155, and finally crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Adrian IV, on 18 June 1155, and two years later in 1157 the term...
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Source
- FMG on Albert I, Count of Namur
- Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis: Seventh Edition, Lines 149-20, 164-24