Reginar IV.

Reginar IV. (* To 947; † 1013 ) from the family of the house of reginar was the son of Reginar III. , who was Count of Hainaut for a short time but fell out of favor with Emperor Otto I. Reginar IV received the county of Mons in 998.

Life

Reginar was still a minor when his father was exiled to Bohemia and the rest of the family fled to the court of the West Frankish king. In 973, together with his brother Lambert , he attacked the Counts Renaud of Mons and Garnier of Valenciennes, to whom the divided Hainaut had been given in the same year, killed them near Péronne , and began to occupy Hainaut, but was taken over by Emperor Otto II . repulsed.

In 976, with the support of Charles , the younger brother of King Lothar in West Franconia , he made a second attempt, this time against the new Counts, Gottfried the Prisoner , Count of Verdun and Arnulf , which ended in defeat at Mons on April 19 .

In order to remedy the threat, Otto II gave Karl the Duchy of Lower Lorraine and Reginar part of his father's property in 978 ; Reginar, however, had to wait until 998, after Gottfried's death, before he received the county of Mons.

Around 996 he married Hedwig of France (* probably 969, † after 1013), daughter of Hugo Capet , the King of France, and Alice of Poitou . The couple's children were:

• Reginar V. , † after 1039, Count in Hennegau, ∞ around 1015 Mathilde von Verdun, † after 1039, daughter of Hermann von Eenham , Count in Eifelgau ( Wigeriche )
• Beatrix, ∞ I, divorced before 1021, Ebalus (Ebles) I , † May 11, 1033 , 997 Count of Roucy , 1023 Count of Reims , Archbishop of Reims ( House of Roucy ); ∞ II Manasses Calva Asina de Ramerupt ( Montdidier ), Vidame de Reims , attested 1031/53 ( House Montdidier )

literature

• Karl Uhlirz:  Reginar (Raginar) long neck, count in Haspen- and Hennegau . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 27, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1888, pp. 552-557. (Reginar IV is dealt with on pages 555–556)