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Personal data Cunégonde "Kunigunde von Monschau" de Haute-Lorraine 

• Nickname is Kunigunde von Monschau.
• She was born about 1175 in Lorriane, France.
• She died in the year 1213 in Limburg, Belgium.
• A child of Ferry I de Lorraine and Ludomilla Wierzchosława Mieszkówna Piast
• This information was last updated on October 29, 2017.

Household of Cunégonde "Kunigunde von Monschau" de Haute-Lorraine

She is married to Walram van Limburg.

They got married in the year 1200.

Child(ren):

1. Waleran van Limburg  1199-1242 
2. Sophia van Limburg  1200-1227 
3. Mathilde van Limburg  ± 1208-1234 

Notes about Cunégonde "Kunigunde von Monschau" de Haute-Lorraine

{geni:about_me} "Waleran's first wife, Cunigunda, a daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine, died in 1214 and in May he married Ermesinda of Luxembourg, and became count jure uxoris there. Ermesinda claimed Namur and so Waleran added a crown to his coat of arms to symbolise this claim."

Waleran III (or Walram III) (c. 1165 – 2 July 1226) was initially lord of Montjoie, then count of Luxembourg from 1214. He became count of Arlon and duke of Limburg on his father's death in 1221. He was the son of Henry III of Limburg and Sophia of Saarbrücken.

As a younger son, he did not expect to inherit. He carried on an adventurous youth and took part in the Third Crusade in 1192. In 1208, the imperial candidate Philip of Swabia died and Waleran, his erstwhile supporter, turned to his opponent, Otto of Brunswick. In 1212, he accompanied his first cousin Henry I, Duke of Brabant, to Liège, then in a war with Guelders. Waleran's first wife, Cunigunda, a daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine, died in 1214 and in May he married Ermesinda of Luxembourg, and became count jure uxoris there. Ermesinda claimed Namur and so Waleran added a crown to his coat of arms to symbolise this claim.

In 1221, he inherited Limburg and added a second tail to the rampant lion on his arms. This symbolised his holding of two great fiefs. In 1223, he again tried to take Namur from the Margrave Philip II. He failed and signed a peace treaty on 13 February in Dinant. He then took part in various imperial diets and accompanied the Emperor Frederick II into Italy. Returning from there, he died in Rolduc.
Family and children

Waleran had four children by his first wife, Cunigunda of Lorraine, and three children by his second wife, Ermesinda of Luxembourg:

Sophie (c. 1190 – 1226/27), married c. 1210 Frederick of Isenberg
Matilda (c. 1192 – aft. 1234), married c. 1210 William III of Jülich, mother of William IV, Count of Jülich
Henry IV, Duke of Limburg
Waleran (c. 1200 – 1242), married Elisabeth of Bar, daughter of Ermesinda of Luxembourg by her first husband, Theobald I, Count of Bar
Catherine (c. 1215 – 1255), married Matthias II, Duke of Lorraine, nephew of Waleran's first wife
Henry V, Count of Luxembourg
Gerhard, Count of Durbuy

External links

[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/LORRAINE.htm#Kunigundediedbefore1213 Medlands]
Cawley, Charles, Medieval Lands Project on Waleran IV, Duke of Limburg, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012
Cawley, Charles, Medieval Lands Project on Dukes/Counts of Limburg, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012

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