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Personal data Walram II van Limburg 

• Alternative name: Paganus de Heidene
• He was born between 1080 and 1085.
• Title: Hertog, van Limburg en Neder-Lotharingen
• He died on August 6, 1139.
• A child of Hendrik I van Limburg and Adelheid van Arlon

Household of Walram II van Limburg

He is married to Jutta van Gelre.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Beatrix van Limburg  ????-> 1164 
2. Hendrik II van Limburg  ± 1110-1167 
3. Walram III van Arlon  ????-1147
4. Gerhard van Wassenberg  

Notes about Walram II van Limburg

WALRAM [II] “Paganus” van Limburg, son of HENDRIK [I] Graaf van Limburg, Duke of Lower Lotharingia & his [second] wife Adelheid von Botenstein ([1080/85]-6 Aug 1139). The Genealogica ex Stirpe Sancti Arnulfi records "Henricus de Liemborc, pater Pagani de Arluna" as son of son of "Adela soror Friderici ducis...filiam unam” (sister of “Fulconem et Gallerannum”)[56]. The Annalista Saxo names "Walrabonum ducem qui et Paginus dicebatur" as son of "Heinricus dux de Lintburh" and his wife Adelheid von Botenstein[57]. According to Europäische Stammtafeln[58], Waleran and his siblings were children of his father's first marriage. The primary source on which this is based has not yet been identified. It is possible that it is only speculative because Waleran inherited the county of Arlon, although this would not be the only case of property passing from an individual's first wife to the children of his second marriage (for example the inheritance of the county of Hainaut by Baudouin de Flandre, second husband of Richilde whose first husband was Herman Comte de Hainaut, see the document HAINAUT). Until further evidence comes to light, it is considered preferable to accept the report in the Annalista Saxo. It should also be noted that the parents of Adelheid von Botenstein, Graf Hendrik's [second] wife, allegedly married in 1056 (see BAVARIA NOBILITY), which suggests that their daughter may have been born soon after this date. If this is correct, it would be consistent with Graf Walram [II] having been born in [1085]. Comte d'Arlon: Bruno Archbishop of Trier donated property “in Liemena” to Trier by charter dated 1115, witnessed by “...Walrammus comes de Arlo...”[59]. Graaf van Limburg. Avocat de Saint-Trond [Sep 1124/1127] (the earlier date being the last document in which his predecessor Giselbert Comte de Duras is called avocat): “advocato Gualeramno cognomento Pagino et subadvocato Gillberto...” witnessed the charter dated 1127 under which Etienne Bishop of Metz donated property to Saint-Trond[60]. "Gerardus de Gelre, Arnoldus comes de Berge, Waleramus comes de Lemburg, Gerardus comes de Iuliaco…" signed the charter dated 1127 under which Friedrich Archbishop of Köln donated property to Kloster St Martin, Köln[61]. Friedrich [I] Archbishop of Köln founded a church "in castro meo episcopali…Zulpiacum" by charter dated 1124 witnessed by "Paganus comes, Theodericus comes de Ara, Herimannus de Hengebach, Theodericus et frater eius Adelgerus de Gladebach…"[62]. The Gestorum Abbatem Trudonensium records that he was installed as WALERAN Duke of Lower Lotharingia by Emperor Lothar in 1128[63]. The necrology of Stavelot records the deaths "XVII Kal Aug" of "Walrani duci…dna Judith juge sua"[64].

m ([1107/10]) JUTTA von Wassenberg, daughter of GERHARD [I] "Flaminius" Graf von Wassenberg & his [first wife ---] ([1087]-Rolduc 24 Jun 1151, bur Rolduc [Rode] abbey). Heiress of Wassenberg. The Chronicon Hanoniense records that "Balduinus comes Hanoniensis" married "Yolendem…comitis de Ghelra filiam", and that "aliam…eiusdem comitis de Ghelra filiam" married "Henricus dux de Lemborch" who inherited "castrum Wassemberghe" from her, a later passage adding that the father of the daughters was "comitis de Ghelra Gerardi"[65]. The chronology dictates that her husband was Walram [II] Graaf van Limburg not Hendrik. The Annales Rodenses record that in 1151 “Jutta ducissa, Walrami ducis de Leimburch uxor et Heinrici ejusdem ducis filii mater” donated “ecclesie...apud Lomunsheim” to Rolduc [Rode] abbey, died “VIII Kal Jul” and was buried in the abbey[66]. Henri Bishop of Liège confirmed the donations made by "domina Jutta, nobilissima matrona uxor ducis Walrami de Lemburg" to Rolduc [Rode] abbey, with the consent of "filiis suis Domino Henrico et Gerardo" by charter dated 1151, which records the presence at her burial in Rolduc [Rode] of "filii eiusdem Henricus et Gerardus et filiolus Domini Heinrici, eiusdem nominis, Arnoldus quoque filius Ruberti comitis de Lunneburg natus ex domina Beatrice filia præfatæ dominæ, et Theodericus filius Ekberti comitis de Titkelenburg natus ex alia filia"[67]. The necrology of Stavelot records the deaths "XVII Kal Aug" of "Walrani duci…dna Judith juge sua"[68]. The Chronicle of Rolduc records the death of Jutta 24 Jun 1151[69].

Walram [II] & his wife had five children:
HENDRIK [II] van Limburg (-Rome Aug 1167, bur Rolduc [Rode] abbey).
GERARD van Limburg (-after 4 Aug 1166).
BEATRIX van Limburg (-12 Jul after 1164).
WALRAM van Limburg (-[30 Dec 1145/5 Jan 1147]).
Daughter (-[1150/Jun 1151]).

Bronnen:

[56] Genealogica ex Stirpe Sancti Arnulfi descendentium Mettensis 4, MGH SS XXV, p. 383.

[57] Annalista Saxo 1036.

[58] ES I.2 229.

[59] Mittelrheinisches Urkundenbuch I, 431, p. 493.

[60] Saint-Trond, Tome I, XXXI, p. 40.

[61] Ennen, L. & Eckertz, G. (eds.) (1860) Quellen zur Geschichte der Stadt Köln, Band I (Köln) ("Köln Quellen"), 40, p. 502.

[62] Lacomblet, T. J. (ed.) (1840) Urkundenbuch für die Geschichte des Niederrheins, Band I (Düsseldorf) ("Niederrheins Urkundenbuch"), 299, p. 195.

[63] Gestorum Abbatem Trudonensium Continuatio Tertia 1126, MGH SS X, p. 386, which dates the event to the third year of the reign of King Lothar.

[64] Ernst (1839), Tome III, p. 49.

[65] Gisleberti Chronicon Hanoniense, MGH SS XXI, pp. 505 and 506.

[66] Ernst, S. P. (1852) Histoire de Limbourg, Tome VII (Liège), Annales Rodenses, p. 63.

[67] Ernst (1847), Tome VI, LIV, p. 142.

[68] Ernst (1839), Tome III, p. 49.

[69] Ernst (1839), Tome III, p. 142.

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