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Personal data Hendrik II van Limburg 

• He was born in the year 1110.
• (Geschiedenis) .Source 1

  Hendrik II van Limburg (ca. 1110 - Rome, 1 augustus 1167) was hertog van Limburg en graaf van Aarlen.
  
  Hendrik was zoon van Walram II. Na de dood van zijn vader (1139) verloor hij het conflict met Godfried II van Leuven om de functie van hertog van Neder-Lotharingen, die zowel door Walram als door Godfrieds vader was bekleed. Hendrik erfde dus alleen het graafschap Limburg, maar noemde zichzelf wel hertog. In 1147 erfde hij het graafschap Aarlen van zijn broer Walram. Hendrik vocht nog een oorlog uit met Hendrik I van Namen en nam deel aan de Italiaanse campagnes van Frederik I van Hohenstaufen. Hij overleed in Italië ten gevolge van de pest.

• (Levens event) .Source 2

  Henry II (c.?1111 – August 1167) was the duke of Limburg from 1139 and count of Arlon from 1147 to his death. He was the son of Waleran, Duke of Lower Lorraine, and Jutta of Guelders, daughter of Gerard I of Guelders. He succeeded his father in Limburg with the title of duke, but Conrad III refused to grant him Lower Lorraine. He continued to style himself as duke nevertheless.
  
  Henry refused at first to accept the loss of Lorraine and attacked the new duke, Godfrey VII. He was defeated. Godfrey died in 1142, but Henry was occupied with a war against the lord of Fauquemont and did not assert any claim to the duchy of Lower Lorraine.
  
  In 1147, he inherited Arlon, his younger brother Waleran having died without children. Conrad confirmed this, for he had promised Henry a fief to compensate for the loss of Lorraine, and the duke and the king were reconciled. Henry did not take part in the Second Crusade that year, however. Henry attended the coronation of Conrad's successor, Frederick Barbarossa.
  
  At that time, Henry was involved in a war with Henry IV of Luxembourg. The town of Andenne was taken and completely plundered and burned. Then Henry turned to Godfrey VIII, but they soon made peace in 1155. Henry's daughter Margaret married Godfrey.
  
  Henry took part in Barbarossa's Italian campaigns, dying during the epidemic of 1167 at Rome.

• He died on August 1, 1167 in Rome, italië, he was 57 years old.
• A child of Walram II "Paganus" van Limburg and Judith van Gelre (ook: Wassenberg)
• This information was last updated on November 12, 2012.

Household of Hendrik II van Limburg

(1) He is married to Mathilde van Saffenberg.

They got married in the year 1136, he was 26 years old.Source 1

Child(ren):

1. Hendrik III van Limburg  1131-1221 
2. Margaretha van Limburg  1135-1172 

(2) He is married to Laureta van Vlaanderen.

They got married after 1145.Source 1

The couple were divorced in 1147.Source 1

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