Gottfried (Namur)

Gottfried von Namur (1080 attested; † 19 August 1139 ) from the House of Namur was Count of Château-Porcien (uxor nomine) in 1097 and Count of Namur from 1102 . He was the son of Count Albert III. and Ida von Sachsen, the heiress of Laroche .

His first marriage was around 1087 to Sibylle von Château-Porcien, daughter of Count Roger and Ermengarde, from whom he was divorced around 1104. Sibylle married Withier de Vitri, Count von Rethel, for the second time . From this marriage she had two daughters:

• Elisabeth, attested in 1141; ∞ Gervais, Count of Rethel ; ∞ II Clarembaud de Roscy , attested in 1141
• Flandrine; ∞ Hugues d' Epinoy

In his second marriage, Gottfried married Ermesinde around 1109 , † 1141, daughter of Count Konrad I of Luxembourg and widow of Albert I of Egisheim, Count of Dagsburg , † 1098. The couple's children were:

• Albert, † around 1127
• Henry the Blind , † August 14, 1196, Count of Luxembourg in 1136 , followed in 1139 in Namur, Laroche, Durbuy and Longwy, Vogt of St. Maximin in Trier and of Echternach ; ∞ I 1152/59, divorced 1163, Lauretta von Flanders, † around 1175, daughter of Dietrich von Alsace , Count of Flanders , widow of Ivan, Count of Aalst , divorced from Heinrich II , Duke of Limburg , widow of Rudolf I. , Count of Vermandois ; ∞ II 1168 Agnes von Geldern, daughter of Heinrich , Count von Geldern
• Clementia, † December 28, 1158; ∞ around 1130 Konrad , Duke of Zähringen , † 1152 ( Zähringer )
• Alice; ∞ around 1130 Baldwin IV , Count of Hainaut , 1163 Count of Namur, † November 8, 1171
• Beatrix, † 1160; ∞ Gonthier, Count von Rethel , † 1148

In 1121 Gottfried founded the Floreffe Abbey . 1136 was his wife Ermesinde of King Conrad III. regarded as the heir to the county of Luxembourg when he transferred the county to Heinrich the Blind , the eldest son of Gottfried and Ermesindes.

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . Family tables on the history of the European states. New series, volume 7: Families of the old Lotharingia. Part 2. Stargardt, Marburg 1979, plate 68.

predecessor	Office	successor
Albert III	Count of Namur 1102–1139	Henry the Blind