Ancestral Trails 2016 » GODFREY de NAMUR (1067-1139)

Personal data GODFREY de NAMUR 

• He was born in the year 1067 in Namur, Namur, Belgium.
• Title: Count of Namur
• He died on August 19, 1139 in Florette, Normandie, France, he was 72 years old.
• A child of ADALBERT de NAMUR and IDA BILLUNG von SAXONY

Household of GODFREY de NAMUR

(1) He is married to ERMISENDE OF LUXEMBOURG.

They got married in the year 1110 at Namur, Namur, Belgium, he was 43 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Clemence Clementia de NAMUR  1110-1158 
2. BEATRIX de NAMUR  1105-1160 
3. HENRI IV de NAMUR  1112-1196 
4. ALIX ADELAIDE de NAMUR  1115-1168 

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He is married to SIBYLLE de CHATEAU-PORCIEN.

They got married in the year 1087 at Namur, Namur, Belgium, he was 20 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Flandrine de NAMUR  ± 1094-????
2. ELIZABETH ISABEL de NAMUR  1092-1141 




Notes about GODFREY de NAMUR

Godfrey of Namur (attested in 1080; died 19 August 1139) was a Lotharingian nobleman. He was Count jure uxoris of Porcéan from 1097 until his death. From 1102, he was also Count of Namur. He was the oldest son of Count Albert III and his wife Ida of Saxony, the heiress of Laroche.

In 1121, he founded Floreffe Abbey.

Godfrey married twice.

He first married in 1087 Sibylle, a daughter of Count Roger of Château-Porcéan and his wife Ermengarde. Together, they had two daughters:
Elisabeth (fl. 1141), married Gervais, Count of Rethel and later Clarembaud de Roscy;
Flandrine, marrie Hugh of Épinoy.

Sibylle and Godfrey divorced in 1105 because of her pregnancy by her lover Enguerrand I, Lord of Coucy.

In 1109, Godfrey married Ermesinde (d. 24 June 1143), the daughter of Count Conrad I of Luxembourg and Clementia of Aquitaine. She was the widow of Count Albert I of Egisheim-Dagsburg. Together, they had the following children:
Albert (d. c. 1127)
Henry the Blind (d. 14 August 1196). He was Count of Luxembourg from 1136 until his death, and Count of Namur, Laroche, Durbuy and Longwy from 1139 to 1189. He was also advocatus of St. Maximin Abbey in Trier and St. Willibrord Abbey in Echternach. He married: Lauretta of Flanders (married c. 1152; divorced 1163, died c. 1175). She was a daughter of Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders and Margaret of Clermont. She was the widow of Count Ivan of Aalst and of Ralph I, Count of Vermandois; she had divorced Henry II. And 2) in 1168 to Agnes, a daughter of Henry I, Count of Guelders
Clementia (d. 28 December 1158), married in 1130 to Duke Conrad I of Zähringen (d. 1152)
Alice, married c. 1130 to Baldwin IV (d. 8 November 1171). He became Count of Namur in 1163
Beatrix (d. 1160), married Ithier, Count of Rethel (d. 1171)

Emperor Frederick Barbarossa decided that Ermesinde was the heir to the County of Luxembourg. The county was transferred to her son, who became count of Luxembourg as Henry IV.
SOURCE: Wikipedia

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