Alice of Namur

Individual Details

Alice of Namur

( - Jul 1169)

According to Wikipedia:

Alice of Namur (died July 1169 at Valenciennes) was the daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Namur and Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg and Longwy the daughter of Conrad I of Luxembourg.[1]

Her father married her off to Baldwin IV, Count of Hainault around 1130.[2] Gislebert of Mons described her as having "a graceful body and a beautiful face".[3] Her son was the heir of Namur when her brother Henry IV of Luxembourg died in 1196.

Her children with Baldwin IV of Hainaut were:

Yolande (1131/5 - after 1202), wife of Ives II, Count of Soissons, and Hugh IV, Count of St Pol[4]
Baldwin (1134 - 1147/50)[5]
Agnes (1140/45 - 1174 or after), married Raoul de Coucy[4]
Geoffrey, Count of Oostrevant (1147-1163), first husband of Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois[5]
Lauretta (died 1181), wife of Thierry of Alost (Dirk van Aalst) and Bouchard IV, Sire of Montmorency[4]
Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (1150-1195), later Count of Flanders by marriage to Margaret I of Flanders[5]
Henry (died after 1207), Seigneur of Sebourg[5]
Bertha[6]
She was buried inside Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church.[7]

References
Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, pp. 851-852).
Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 33 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, pp. 60-62). J.A. Everard, Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 30-31.
Chronicon Hanoniae 33 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 60).
Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 34 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 67), Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852).
Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 34 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, pp. 66-67), Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852).
Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852).
F. Rousseau, Henri l’Aveugle, Comte de Namur et de Luxembourg (1136-1196), Liège, 2013 (= Paris - Liège, 1921), p. 12 (note 15). Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 55 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 96), L. Devillers, Memoire historique et descriptif sur l'eglise de Sainte-Waudru a Mons, Mons, 1857, pp. 77-78.
Bibliography
L. Devillers, Memoire historique et descriptif sur l'eglise de Sainte-Waudru a Mons, Mons, 1857.
J.A. Everard, Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 30-31.
F. Rousseau, Henri l’Aveugle, Comte de Namur et de Luxembourg (1136-1196), Liège, 2013 (= Paris - Liège, 1921).


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According to Wikipedia:

Alice of Namur (died July 1169 at Valenciennes) was the daughter of Godfrey I, Count of Namur and Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg and Longwy the daughter of Conrad I of Luxembourg.[1]

Her father married her off to Baldwin IV, Count of Hainault around 1130.[2] Gislebert of Mons described her as having "a graceful body and a beautiful face".[3] Her son was the heir of Namur when her brother Henry IV of Luxembourg died in 1196.

Her children with Baldwin IV of Hainaut were:

Yolande (1131/5 - after 1202), wife of Ives II, Count of Soissons, and Hugh IV, Count of St Pol[4]
Baldwin (1134 - 1147/50)[5]
Agnes (1140/45 - 1174 or after), married Raoul de Coucy[4]
Geoffrey, Count of Oostrevant (1147-1163), first husband of Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois[5]
Lauretta (died 1181), wife of Thierry of Alost (Dirk van Aalst) and Bouchard IV, Sire of Montmorency[4]
Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut (1150-1195), later Count of Flanders by marriage to Margaret I of Flanders[5]
Henry (died after 1207), Seigneur of Sebourg[5]
Bertha[6]
She was buried inside Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church.[7]

References
Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, pp. 851-852).
Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 33 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, pp. 60-62). J.A. Everard, Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 30-31.
Chronicon Hanoniae 33 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 60).
Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 34 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 67), Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852).
Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 34 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, pp. 66-67), Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852).
Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852).
F. Rousseau, Henri l`Aveugle, Comte de Namur et de Luxembourg (1136-1196), Liège, 2013 (= Paris - Liège, 1921), p. 12 (note 15). Gislebert of Mons, Chronicon Hanoniae 55 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 96), L. Devillers, Memoire historique et descriptif sur l'eglise de Sainte-Waudru a Mons, Mons, 1857, pp. 77-78.
Bibliography
L. Devillers, Memoire historique et descriptif sur l'eglise de Sainte-Waudru a Mons, Mons, 1857.
J.A. Everard, Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, Cambridge, 2000, pp. 30-31.
F. Rousseau, Henri l`Aveugle, Comte de Namur et de Luxembourg (1136-1196), Liège, 2013 (= Paris - Liège, 1921).

Events

DeathJul 1169

Families

SpouseBaldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (1108 - 1171)
ChildLiving
ChildBaldwin V, Count of Hainaut (1150 - 1195)
ChildLiving
ChildBaldwin V, Count of Hainaut (1150 - )
ChildLiving
FatherGodfrey I, Count of Namur ( - 1139)
MotherErmesinde of Luxembourg (1080 - 1143)
SiblingClementia of Namur ( - )
SiblingHenry IV, Count of Luxembourg (1112 - 1196)