Alice of Namur (died July 1169 at Valenciennes) was the daughter of Count Godfrey I of Namur and Countess Ermesinde of Luxembourg.[1]
Alice of Namur | |
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| Died | July 1169 Valenciennes |
| Noble family | House of Namur |
| Spouse(s) | Baldwin IV of Hainaut |
| Father | Godfrey I of Namur |
| Mother | Ermesinde of Luxembourg |
Her father married her off to Count Baldwin IV of Hainaut around 1130.[2] Gislebert of Mons described her as having "a graceful body and a beautiful face".[3] Their son Baldwin was the heir of Namur when her brother Count Henry IV of Luxembourg died in 1196.
Her children with Baldwin IV of Hainaut were:
- Yolande (1131/5 – after 1202), wife of Count Ives II of Soissons, and Count Hugh IV of Saint Pol[4]
- Baldwin (1134 – 1147/50)[5]
- Agnes (1140/45 – 1174 or after), married Ralph de Coucy[4]
- Geoffrey, Count of Oostrevant (1147–1163), first husband of Countess Eleanor of Vermandois[5]
- Lauretta (died 1181), wife of Thierry of Alost (Dirk van Aalst) and Bouchard IV of Montmorency[4]
- Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (1150–1195), later Count of Flanders by marriage to Margaret I of Flanders[5]
- Henry (died after 1207), Seigneur of Sebourg[5]
- Bertha[6]
She was buried inside Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church.[7]
References edit
- ^ Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, pp. 851 Archived 2017-12-27 at the Wayback Machine-852 Archived 2018-12-31 at the Wayback Machine).
- ^ Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 33 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, pp. 60-62). J.A. Everard, Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 30-31.
- ^ Chronicon Hanoniae 33 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 60).
- ^ a b c Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 34 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 67), Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852 Archived 2018-12-31 at the Wayback Machine).
- ^ a b c d Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 34 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, pp. 66-67), Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852 Archived 2018-12-31 at the Wayback Machine).
- ^ Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852 Archived 2018-12-31 at the Wayback Machine).
- ^ F. Rousseau, Henri l’Aveugle, Comte de Namur et de Luxembourg (1136-1196), Liège, 2013 (= Paris - Liège, 1921), p. 12 (note 15). Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 55 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 96), L. Devillers, Memoire historique et descriptif sur l'eglise de Sainte-Waudru a Mons, Mons, 1857, pp. 77-78.
Bibliography edit
- L. Devillers, Memoire historique et descriptif sur l'eglise de Sainte-Waudru a Mons, Mons, 1857.
- J.A. Everard, Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 30-31.
- F. Rousseau, Henri l’Aveugle, Comte de Namur et de Luxembourg (1136-1196), Liège, 2013 (= Paris - Liège, 1921).