De oudst gekende heer van
Grimbergen is Wouter (1096-1120). Diens zoon Gerard 1(1106-1131)
is de stichter van de premonstratenzer abdij van Grimbergen. Zijn zoon
Gerard II (1140-1181), die trouwde met Mathilde van Ninove, wordt
in oorkonden de broer van Wouter Berthout genoemd." (4)
Bronnen:
4) C.-B. DE RIDDER, Documents extraits du cartulaire de Grimberghen, in: Analectes pour
servir à I'histoire ecclésiastique de la Belgique, 11, 1874, p. 12-16, oorkonden van 1162 en
1170.
Het Land van Aalst, jaargang LIX, 2007, nr. 1
http://www.hetlandvanaalst.be/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/LVA-JG-59-2007-1.pdf
Il est marié avec Nn Nn.
Ils se sont mariés
Enfant(s):
WALTER [I] [van Grimbergen] (-[17 Oct] 1120, bur Grimbergen abbey). "…Walteri de Grimberges…" witnessed the charter dated 1096 under which "Ida Boloniensis comitissa" donated property in "Genapia" to Afflighem abbey[1800]. "…Walterus de Grimbergis…" signed the charter dated 1107 under which "Godefridus Dux et Marchio Lotharingiæ, comes Lovanii" confirmed various properties "apud Sellekam" to Afflighem abbey[1801]. He founded the church of Grimberghe. A charter dated 1132 records that "Gualterus quidam nobilis qui in alodio sio sita erat" founded the church at Grimbergen, and that after he died "heredes eius Gerardus…et Arnulphus" (whose father and mother were buried in the church) acting "per legatum suum hominem quemdam Alvaricum" requested "domino Norberto" to install his monks there, and records donations by "prædictus Gualterus, Gerardus filius…Alvericus tertius filius suus"[1802]. Pope Eugene III records donations by "Vualterius qui dicebatur magnus…Gerardus filius suus…Alvericus et filius suus Reimerus…Adeloia venerabilis vidua" to Grimbergen abbey by bull dated 1 May 1147 which confirms the abbey’s privileges[1803]. The death of "Wouter voecht van Grimbergen" is recorded in 1120[1804]. The necrology of Brogne records the death "XVI Kal Nov" of "Galteri Grimberge advocati"[1805]. m ---. The name of Walter’s wife is not known.
Walter & his wife had [five] children:
ARNOLD van Grimbergen (-[1134 or 1137]).
GERARD [I] (-after 1129)
ALVERIC (-after 1129).
LUTGARDE
BEATRIX
Bronnen:
[1800] Miraeus (1723), Tome I, LXVII, p. 77.
[1801] Foppens (1734), Tome III, Pars I, XXVII, p. 26.
[1802] Miraeus (1723), Tome I, LXXXVI, p. 96.
[1803] Patrologia Latina, Vol. 180, col. 1209B.
[1804] Wauters (1855), Tome II, p. 161, quoting Chronycke van Nederlant van den jaere 1027 tot den jaere 1525 (no precise citation).
[1805] Brogne Necrology, p. 348.
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