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Mathilde of Louvain

Female Abt 993 -


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  • Name Mathilde of Louvain  [1, 2, 3
    Birth Abt 993  [4
    Gender Female 
    Alternate birth Abt 1004  Louvain, Brabant, Belgium Find all individuals with events at this location  [5
    Siblings 1 sibling 
    Person ID I4652  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of AW, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of GFS, Ancestor of JMF, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
    Last Modified 4 Dec 2023 

    Father Lambert I "The Bearded",   b. Abt 950   d. 12 Oct 1015 (Age ~ 65 years) 
    Mother Gerberga of Lorraine   d. Aft 1017 
    Marriage Between 985 and 990  [5
    Family ID F2498  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Eustace I,   b. Abt 995   d. Abt 1049 (Age ~ 54 years) 
    Children 
    +1. Eustache II of Boulogne   d. Abt 1080
    +2. Lambert II of Boulogne   d. 1054, Phalempin, Nord, France Find all individuals with events at this location
    +3. Gerberge de Boulogne   d. Aft 1059
    Family ID F1213  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 10 Jan 2016 

  • Notes 
    • 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.

  • Sources 
    1. [S850] Todd A. Farmerie, 13 Mar 2001, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.

    2. [S917] John P. Ravilious, 28 Feb 2003, post to soc.genealogy.medieval.

    3. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

    4. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    5. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008.