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Personal data Albert I van Namen 

• He was born about 955.
• Title: Graaf, van Namen en de Lommegau
• He died after 1011.
• A child of Robrecht I van Namen and Nn Nn

Household of Albert I van Namen

He is married to Ermengarde van Neder Lotharingen.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Luitgard van Namen  ????-> 1014 
2. Albert II van Namen  ± 995-1064 
3. Hedwig van Namen  1010-1080 

Notes about Albert I van Namen

ALBERT, son of ROBERT [I] Comte de Namur & his wife --- (-shortly before 1011). Albert, Gislebert and Ratbod are named as sons of Comte Robert in a charter dated 981[30]. He succeeded as ALBERT I Comte de Namur. "Otto…rex" confirmed the privileges of Brogne abbey "in pago Lomacensis situm" by charter dated 992 which names "comiti…Namuci Adelberto"[31]. His date of death is suggested by a record, dated to 1011, of a monk from St Vaast d'Arras dreaming of hell where he recognised "Albertum Namucensium comitatui" being tortured, the episode being incorporated into a circular letter from Richard Bishop of Verdun to all abbeys[32].

m (990) ERMENGARDE, daughter of CHARLES Duke of Lower Lotharingia [Carolingian] & wife Adelais de Troyes ([970/75]-after 1013). The Genealogica comitum Buloniensium records that "Karolus dux" was father of "Ermengardem et Gerbergam"[33]. The Gesta Abbatem Trudonensium, on the other hand, names "Hermegardam Namursi cometissam" as only daughter of "Ottoni duci Lotharingiæ", son of Duke Charles[34]. This appears chronologically difficult to sustain, assuming that Ermengarde was the mother of Albert's children as shown below. It would also mean that her daughter Liutgarde could not have been the mother of Baldric [II] Bishop of Liège (see below), already tight chronologically if Ermengarde married in 990. The Fundatio Ecclesiæ S Albani Namucensis is less specific on Ermengarde's origin when it names her son "comes Albertus secundus, ortus ex patre Lothariensi" and refers to his mother as "matre vero Francigena Ermengarde, nobilissimam Francorum regum prosapiam trahente"[35]. The date of her marriage is suggested by the fact that Richer does not name her among the children who were imprisoned with her father in 991: "Karolum…cum uxore Adelaide et filio Ludovico, et filiabus duabus, quarum altera Gerberga, altera Adelaidis dicebatur, necnon et Arnulfo nepote"[36]. This presumably indicates that her marriage predated this imprisonment. It has been suggested that Ermengarde was Albert [I]'s second wife, considering the likely difference in their ages[37]. If this is correct, it is unlikely that there were any surviving children from his earlier marriage as Albert's successor (presumably his eldest surviving son) was the son of his surviving wife, presumably Ermengarde, as shown by the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensium which records that, after the battle of Hougaerde/Hoegaarden (dated to 1013), Lambert Comte de Louvain captured "Herimannum…comitem" and placed him in the custody of "Rotberdo Namurcensi comite", before he was released after the intervention of "Rotbodi…comitis mater"[38].

Comte Albert I & his wife had [six] children:
ROBERT de Namur (-before 1031)
ALBERT de Namur (-[1063/64]). 
HADWIDE de Namur ([1005/10]-28 Jan [1080])
LIUTGARDE [Emma] de Namur .
GODA de Namur
ERMENGARDE de Namur

Bronnen:

[30] Pirenne, H. (ed.) (1909) Album belge de diplomatique (Brussels), planche IV, cited in Namur, p. xxxv. 

[31] D O III 92, p. 502. 

[32] Namur, p. xli, which quotes the text, citing MGH SS X, p. 382, in which the passage does not appear. 

[33] Genealogica comitum Buloniensium MGH SS IX, p. 300. 

[34] Gestorum Abbatem Trudonensium Continuatio Tertia 1005, MGH SS X, p. 382. 

[35] Fundatio Ecclesiæ S. Albani Namucensis, MGH SS XV.2, p. 962. 

[36] Richeri Historiæ IV 49, MGH SS III, p. 642. 

[37] Namur, p. xlvi. 

[38] Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensium III 5, MGH SS VII, p. 468.

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