Henry II (Lions)
Henry II , called the girded ( buried around 1020; † 1078 in Nivelles ) was Count of Leuven and Count of Brussels from 1054 to 1078. He was the son of Count Lambert II and Oda von Verdun .
Little is known of his government, only that in 1071 he was Richilde von Hennegau, the widow of Baldwin VI. of Flanders and mother of Arnulf III. in vain against the usurpation of her brother-in-law Robert the Friesian supported. Half a generation later his daughter married Ida Arnulf's brother Baldwin II of Hainaut .
progeny
He married Adelheid, the daughter of Count Eberhard in the Betuwe and von Teisterbant , and later founder of the Affligem monastery . Your children were:
- Heinrich III († 1095), Count of Leuven and Brussels, Landgrave of Brabant from 1085/86.
- Gottfried I (1060–1139), Count of Leuven and Brussels, Landgrave of Brabant and Duke of Lower Lorraine.
- Adalbero († 1128), Bishop of Liège
- Ida (1077; † 1107/1139), ⚭ 1084 Balduin II , Count of Hainaut († 1098)
literature
- Académie royale de Belgique, Biographie Nationale de Belgique , Volume 9, Brussels 1887
- Carl Knetsch, The House of Brabant. Genealogy of the Dukes of Brabant and the Landgraves of Hesse, Darmstadt, vol. 1 , 1917, p. 18, plate II
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| SURNAME | Henry II |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henry the Belted |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Count of Leuven and Brussels |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1020 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1078 |
| Place of death | bury Nivelles |