Heinrich I (Limburg)

Heinrich I was Duke of Lower Lorraine from 1101 to 1106 and Count of Limburg from 1081 to 1118 .

The fight for the title of duke

Heinrich von Limburg was appointed Duke of Lower Lorraine in 1101 by Emperor Heinrich IV . In the power struggle between the emperor and his son ( Heinrich V ) he remained loyal to the old emperor, whereby in 1106 he lost the ducal dignity to Count Gottfried I , Count of Löwen . In the period that followed, there was constant fighting for the title and office of Duke of Lower Lorraine between the houses of Limburg-Arlon and Leuven-Brabant . In 1128 Heinrich I's son, Walram III. of Limburg (1119–1139), the title of the later Emperor Lothar III. In 1139 Conrad III conferred . him back to the Brabanters. The situation was then resolved by the fact that Walram's son Heinrich II was appointed Duke of Limburg the following year (1140) .

On the origin of Heinrich

In the literature the sequence Walram I - Walram II - Heinrich I has been given for the first generations of the House of Limburg-Arlon. Here are Walram II , Count von Arlon , as the first Count of Limburg, and Judith / Jutta, daughter of Duke Friedrich II. Of Lower Lorraine and heiress of Limburg, the parents of Heinrich.

On the other hand, around 1061 - during Walram II's lifetime - an egregrius comes Udo de Lemborch (chosen Count Udo von Limburg) is mentioned. As a result, Walram II and Udo are seen as one person who is often given the name Walram-Udo .

Schwennicke (1999, see below) and a. now give a different genealogy. According to him, Walram II and Udo are two different people, whereby Walram II remains Count von Arlon and Judith's husband, but is not mentioned as Count of Limburg; Udo is Count of Limburg around 1061 (near Schwennicke: a Count of Limburg, who was probably called Udo) and married to Judith / Jutta, a daughter of Duke Friedrich's brother Giselbert , Count of Salm . The merging of the counties of Arlon and Limburg takes place here via Heinrich I, who as the son of the first count of Limburg, probably Udo's first marriage, married the heir to Walrams II of Arlon. This - and not Heinrich's second wife Adelheid von Pottenstein - would then also be the mother of the next generation.

progeny

After Schwennicke, Heinrich married a daughter of Count Walram II von Arlon , who also became the mother of his children. According to traditional tradition Heinrich was only married to Adelheid von Pottenstein (with Schwennicke Heinrich's second wife). The children Heinrich - from whatever marriage - were:

• Walram III. Paganus ; † 1139, 1115–19 Count of Arlon, 1119 Count of Limburg and Lord of Wassenberg, 1128 Duke of Lower Lorraine
• Agnes; † 1136; ∞ I Friedrich von Putelendorf ; † 1125; ∞ II Walo II. Von Veckenstedt ; † 1126
• Adelheid; † 1144/46; ∞ I Friedrich the Arguable , Count von Arnsberg ; † 1124; ∞ II before 1130 Kuno von Horburg ; † probably 1138/39; ∞ III before 1140 Konrad II., Count of Dachau , X 1159
• Mathilde, attested in 1148; ∞ Henry I of Namur, Count of Laroche ; † before 1138 ( House of Namur )

literature

• Heinrich Neu :  Heinrich I .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 8, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1969, ISBN 3-428-00189-3 , p. 366 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . Volume I.2, 1999, plate 229

Footnotes

1. ↑ so H. Grote (family tables, 1877, plate 199), W. Bahnson (family and regent tables, 1912, volume III, 14) and Freytag von Loringhoven (European family tables, volume III (1964), plate 107), but also genealogy middle ages
2. ↑ so Lexikon des Mittelalters , Erich Brandenburg , Winfrid Glocker, see: genealogie-medieval
3. ↑ see web links at Haus Limburg-Arlon

predecessor	Office	successor
NN (probably Udo) or Walram II.	Count of Limburg 1081–1118	Walram III. Paganus
Godfrey of Bouillon	Duke of Lower Lorraine 1100–1106	Gottfried VI.