Mathilde of Louvain

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1004, Louvain, Brabant, Belgium

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Also called Mahaut de Louvain; Maud de Leuven; Mathilda of Lens.

She and her husband Eustace I of Boulogne were fifth cousins through common descent from Aelfred "the Great" (848-899), king of Wessex, and fifth cousins once removed through common descent from Charles the Bald (823-877), Holy Roman Emperor, grandson of Charlemagne.

Family/Spouse: Eustace I. Eustace (son of Baldwin and Adelvie de Gant) was born about 995; died about 1049. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Eustache II of Boulogne died about 1080.
2. Lambert II of Boulogne died in 1054 in Phalempin, Nord, France.
3. Gerberge de Boulogne died after 1059.

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• Alternate death: 12 Sep 1015, Florennes, Namur, Belgium

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Count of Louvain.

"[K]illed at the Battle of Florennes defending his nephew's County of Hainault against the newly created Duke Godfrey of Brabant." [Ancestral Roots]

Lambert married Gerberga of Lorraine between 985 and 990. Gerberga (daughter of Charles of Lorraine and Adelheid) died after 1017. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 928

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Count of Hainault. Died in exile.

Reginar married Adela. Adela died in 961. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Lower Lorraine. Also called Charles de Laon; Charles, Prince of France.

Charles married Adelheid before 979. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adelais de Vermandois; Adelaide of Lorraine.

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Count of Hainaut. "From these two brothers [Giselbert I and Reginar II] are descended the later kings of England, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, many of the German emperors, the Dukes of Brabant, Burgundy, Warwick, Northumberland, and Lorraine, the earls of Chester, Clare, and Pembroke, the Counts of Roucy, Vermandois, Bercelona, Provence, Nevers, Poitou, Burgundy, and Savoy, and the families of Cantelou, Courtenay, Zouche, and many others." [Ancestral Roots, 8th ed., 240-18]

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• Alternate birth: 10 Sep 920

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Called "d'Outre-Mer"; "Transmarinus" (i.e.,"from overseas").

Died of a fall from a horse, according to Ancestral Roots, the Encyclopedia Britannica, and French-language Wikipedia. Some sources, including English-language Wikipedia, say 30 Sep, but 10 Sep seems more common.

Louis married Gerberga of Saxony in 939. Gerberga (daughter of Heinrich I "The Fowler", King of Germany and St. Matilda) was born between 913 and 914; died on 5 May 969; was buried in Saint-Rémy de Reims. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 5 May 984

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Also called Gerberga of Germany; Gerberga of France.

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Lay-abbot of Echternach (897-915); Lay-abbot of Stavelot-Malmedy; Lay-abbot of Saint-Servais; Lay-abbot of Saint-Maximum. Lay Margrave between the Meuse and the Scheldt. Count, perhaps of Hesbaye, perhaps of Masau. Called "Dux" 898, 905. Called "Missus Dominicus" 911. Called Marquess 915.

Also called Regnier.

Many genealogical sources, including Ancestral Roots, give Reginar as the son of Giselbert and a daughter of Lothair I. But (as Wikipedia notes), no contemporary evidence exists linking Reginar and this Giselbert. A detailed discussion of what we know and of the plausibility of this and other speculations can be found at The Henry Project.

From Wikipedia (accessed 15 March 2014): "His nickname is variously given in other languages as Langhals, au Long Cou, au Longue Col, Collo-Longus, or Longi-colli. Nevertheless, this nickname does not appear in primary sources and in fact refers to his eponymous grandson [Reginar III, abt 920-973, Count of Hainault] and great-grandson [Reginar IV, abt 950-1013, Count of Mons]."

From The Henry Project: "Regnier was still living on 25 August 915, when he appeared in a charter of Charles 'the Simple' (see above). He was certainly deceased by 19 January 916, when he was not present at the assembly at Heristal, but his sons Giselbert and the younger Regnier were (the order they were listed making it clear that it was not the father who was present) [Parisot (1898), 617; Wampach (1935), 170 (#146)]. If the Catalogi abbatum Epternacensium is correct in having his tenure as lay-abbot end in the fourth year of Charles the Simple (as king of Lorraine -- see above), then Regnier was deceased by November of that year [see Brabant (1881), 66 (#81), n. 1; Parisot (1898), 609-610]."

Reginar married Alberada of Mons. Alberada died after 915. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Albreda; Alberade of Lorraine.

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Also called Charles the Simple; Carolus Simplex.

Charles married Eadgifu of Wessex in 918. Eadgifu (daughter of Eadward "the Elder", King of Wessex and Mercia and Ælfflaed) was born in 902; died in 951. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 955

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Also called Ottogeba; Ogiva.

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Duke of Sachsen (Saxony). King of Germany 919-936.

Heinrich married St. Matilda in 909. Matilda (daughter of Dietrich and Reinhild of Denmark) was born about 890; died on 14 Mar 968 in Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany; was buried in Quedlinburg Abbey, Quedlinburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 895

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Also called Mechtilde of Ringelheim.

"The principal basis for estimating her birth date is that she is said to have been of tender years (aetate tenera) in a passage of Vita Mahthildis reginae shortly before her marriage to Heinrich, which occurred about 909." [The Henry Project]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1 Nov 846

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King of Neustria 856; King of Aquitaine 867; King of France 877-879. (More precisely, king of West Francia.)

Called Louis II "le Begue".

The Henry Project and Royal Ancestry both say he was born on a 1st of November, about 846.

Louis married Adélaïde of Paris between 868 and 870. Adélaïde died after 9 Nov 901; was buried in Abbey of Saint-Corneille, Compiègne, Picardy. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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On 15 Nov 2015 Peter Stewart posted the first of a series of posts to SGM that appear to thoroughly refute the commonly-accepted model of Adélaïde's ancestry as put forth by the eminent German historian Karl Ferdinand Werner.

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• Alternate birth: Abt 872
• Alternate death: 925

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"Eadweard's nickname of 'the Elder' is not contemporary, but was assigned later to distinguish him from the two other Anglo-Saxon kings of that name." [The Henry Project]

Eadward married Ælfflaed before 901. Ælfflaed (daughter of Æthelhelm) died in 918. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 836

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Duke of Saxony 880-912.

Otto married Hadwig von Babenberg between 869 and 870. Hadwig (daughter of Heinrich of Babenberg) died on 24 Dec 903. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Hedwiga; Hathui; Haduwich; Hadui von Frankenau.

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Count in Westfalen.

Also called Theodoric.

Fl. 929.

Dietrich married Reinhild of Denmark. Reinhild died about 932. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ragnhildis; (possibly spuriously) Ludmilla.

"Reinhild is stated to have been of Danish-Frisian origin in two lives of her daughter queen Mathilde." [The Henry Project]