Amalrich (Hainaut)

Amalrich († 973 ) was a count in Hainaut .

Amalrich was installed as count in Valenciennes after the expulsion of the Reginare and the division of Hainaut in 957/958 by the Lotharing duke Brun . Around the same time, Bishop Fulbert of Cambrai obtained the annulment of Amalrich's marriage to a daughter of Count Isaac of Cambrai .

Amalrich is mentioned for the last time as a witness in a deed of gift from Emperor Otto I the Great to the Abbey of Crespin , issued on February 12, 973. He must have died shortly afterwards, as Werner appears as Count of the Mark Valenciennes that same year .

Amalrich vom Hainaut is also considered to be the progenitor of the Montfort-l'Amaury family . The father of the first provable lord of Montfort, Amalrich I , was a certain "Wilhelm von Hennegau", who in turn would have been a son of the Hainaut. However, no contemporary sources support this assumption.

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• Gesta episcoporum Cameracensium , ed. by Ludwig Conrad Bethmann in MGH SS 7 (1846), p. 427
• MGH DD OI , p. 579, no. 426

predecessor	Office	successor
Reginar III. Long neck	Count in Hainaut (Mark Valenciennes) 956 / 957–973	Werner