Berengar (Namur)

Berengar († after 924) was a count in Lommegau and Maifeld in the 10th century. His family origin is unclear, but he is often associated with the Unruochinger clan .

Berengar was married to a daughter of the Great Reginar I , who was powerful in northern Lotharingia , from whom he may have received the Lommegau as a dowry. As count of this pagus he is mentioned in two documents of the East Franconian king Ludwig the child , issued in the years 907 and 908. On January 19, 916, he and his brothers-in-law Giselbert and Reginar II were at the side of King Charles III of West Franconia . of the simple-minded in Herstal .

Berengar carried the rebellion of his brother-in-law Giselbert against King Charles III. not with the simple-minded and was consequently at war with him. In 924 he was able to take Giselbert prisoner, but released him soon after he had received one of Reginar II's sons as a hostage. After that nothing more has come down to us from Berengar.

The next count named in Lommegau was Robert I , who was probably a son of Berengar. Robert I built the castle of Namur , after which the county of Lommegau was named in the future.

In Berengar's service stood the warrior and later Saint Gerhard von Brogne .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MGH DD LK , p. 181, no. 55 and p. 183, no. 57
2. ↑ Camillus Wampach: Document and source book on the history of the old Luxembourg territories up to the Burgundian period , I (1935), p. 170, no. 146
3. ↑ Flodoard von Reims , Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), p. 373
4. ↑ Vita Gerardi abbatis Broniensis ; ed. Lothar von Heinemann in MGH SS 15.2 (1881), p. 656

predecessor	Office	successor
---	Graf im Lommegau before 907 – after 924	Robert I.