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generation 1 (21) ('edelbetovergrootouders'):
1. William III the Good of Avesnes, count of Holland and Hainault 1304-1337, count of Zeeland 1323-1337, born 1286/1287, depicted in a portrait in the Town Hall of Haarlem with caption: Dits ghoede graef willem die daer na quam / sconijncx suster van vranckrijck nam hij ten beghinne / iohanna valoijs, en wan bij haer soomen vernam / willem sijn navolgher, magriet die roomsche keijserinne / philippa is conijghinne van enghelant en die gravinne / johanne van gulick die vlaminghen verwan hij coen. / Hij hielt te haerlem een hof acht daech soo ick bekind / met xx graven c bannerheeren ende doen / M ridderen, dees heer was na mijn bevroen / stathouder des keijsers over veel heeren landen / na xxxii iaer sijns regiments most hij te sterven spoen / begraven te valencijn bevolen in godts handen., one of the most prominent European politicians of his time, who forged coalitions with England, France and Germany, sealed with marriages,[1] signed 1323 a treaty in Paris relating to the estuary of the Schelde and thus gained Zeeland to the west of the Schelde, divided 1331 the land of his former rival, the bishop of Utrecht, with the duke of Gelre, signed 1332 a treaty with Brabant, died 7/8-6-1337 Valenciennes, married (1) 23-5-1305 Longpont, Jeanne de Valois [Johanna], born 1294?, died 7-3-1352 [1342?] Fontenelle, daughter of Charles I, count of Valois, and Margaretha of Anjou, had an affair (2) with Lady De Moor, from the duchy of Brabant, became nun at Fontenelle, presumably after 1337
generation 2 (22) ('edeloudouders'):
2.
John II of Avesnes = John I, count of Hainault
1280-, count of Holland and Zeeland 1299-, regent of Holland and Zeeland 9-1296
to 2-1297, steward of Holland and Zeeland 2-1297 to 1299, born circa 1247,
acquired the county of Holland through his mother, was at war with the
Dampierres due to Royal Flanders, expelled 1300 emperor Albert from Nijmegen,
who had attempted to bring him to court, died 11-9-1304 [22-8-1304?]
3.
Philippine of
generation 3 (23) ('edeloudgrootouders'):
4. John I of Avesnes, count of Hainault, Namur and Royal Flanders, born ?-4-1218 Houffalize, heir and later coregent of Hainault, legitimated by emperor Frederik II in 1242, 7-1246 appointed as successor of Hainault, 7-1242 Frankfurt pledged with Namur and Royal Flanders by his brother-in-law Roman emperor William II of Holland, died 24-12-1257 Valenciennes or Binches, buried Valenciennes, Dominican Choir, married 25-10-1246 [9-1246?]:
5. Aleida [Aleidis], countess or stewardess of Holland and Zeeland, became stewardess of Holland for her nephew Floris V, the son of William II, after the death of William II in 1256 and of his brother Floris the Tutor ['De Voogd'] in 1258, her army was defeated 1263 by count Otto II of Gelre, who became regent instead, succeeded by Floris V in 1266, built a castle in Schiedam, died between 1-3-1284 and 9-4-1284, buried Valenciennes, Dominican Choir
6.
Henry V the Blond, count of
7.
Margaretha of Bar, born 1220? 1223?, died
generation 4 (24) ('edeloudovergrootouders'):
8. Bouchard of Avesnes, born 1172? Oisy [after 1180?], belonged to the clergy, cantor of Laon 9-1205, sub-deacon and treasurer of the chapter of Doornik, later bailiff of Hainault, became tutor of 10-year old Margaretha at the age of 40, when her father Baldwin VI was killed in a war with Bulgaria 1205 and married her in the same year, which marriage was declared false at the Lateran Council in 1212, after which Margaretha continued to live another 8 years with Bouchard, she deserted him when Bouchard returned from Rome in 1224 to attempt to have the marriage validated, installed as high-bailiff of Hainault early 1212 until at most 22-11-1213, died 1244 Valenciennes, buried abbey of Clairefontaine, married prior to 23-7-1212 Le Quesnoy, and divorced 1221 [before 13-7-1212?]:
9. Margaretha of Constantinople, countess of Flanders and Hainault 1244-1280, born between 1-7-1202 and 31-8-1202, sojourned with king Louis the Sacred ['de Heilige'] of France until 1212, after her father had been captured in 1205, died 10-2-1280, married (2) between 18-8-1223 and 15-11-1223, William II of Dampierre, died 3-9-1231, son of Guy II of Dampierre and Mathilde of Bourbon
10. Floris IV, count of Holland 1222-1234, born 24-6-1210 [12-1-1210?], participated in the crusade against the Stedingers in 1234, was an enthousiastic participant in tournaments who usually won, died 19-7-1234 Noyon or Corbie, in Picardy, killed during a tournament by the count of Clairmont, who had discovered that Floris had fallen in love with his wife, a few days later to be followed by the countess of Clairmont, buried Rijnsburgh, engaged 5-11-1214, married 1224 Antwerp:
11. Machteld of Brabant, stewardess of Zeeland, born circa 1197, founded a Cistercian monastery for nuns at Loosduinen 1230, bestowed gifts on various abbeys, died 12-12-1267, buried Loosduinen [22-12?], married (1) Henry of the Palatinate
12.
Walram IV, duke of
13. Ermesinde II of Namur, countess of Luxembourg, Durbuy and Laroche, born 1186 Namur, appointed as heiress of Namur by her father upon which a succession war started, from which she emerged succesfully, united Luxembourg and Limburg by her second marriage, sole ruler of Luxembourg after Walram's death, died 17-2-1247, married (1) 1197, Theobald I, count of Bar-Mousson
14.
Henry II, count of Bar, born 1190?, died
15.
Philippa of Dreux, born 1192, died
generation 5 (25) ('edeloudbetovergrootouders'):
16. James of Oisy, lord of Avesnes, Leuze, Condé, Landrecies and Guise 1171, born 1150?, acquired Guise through his marriage, counsillor of the count of Flanders 1185, participated in the Third Crusade, died 7-9-1191 Arsuf, Palestine, married 1180:
17. Amelie of Guise [Adèle, Adelvie; Ameline?], born 1155?, died 1191
18. Baldwin VI, count of Hainault 1195- = Baldwin IX, count of Flanders 1194- = Baldwin I, emperor of Constantinople 1204-, born 7-1171 Valenciennes, supported king Richard Coeur-Lion of England, who won the battle of Gisors in 1198 against king Philips II Augustus of France, thus reclaiming much land in South-Flanders that had been taken by Philips in 1191, participated in the Fourth Crusade in 1202, which ended in Constantinople, captured and presumably killed in a war in Adrianopolis, Bulgaria in 1205, after 20-7, married 13-1-1186, Château-Thierry:
19.
Mary of
20. William I, count of Holland, count of Oostergo, Westergo, and Stavoren, born 1168?, participated in the Third Crusade with his father and in the siege of Acco in 1191, returned alive, made himself leader of the West-Frisians when his brother Thierry VII became count, conquered Alkmaar in 1195, when his brother Thierry was elsewhere, but was pushed back into East-Frisia, participated in the succession war of Loon shortly after the death of Thierry in 1203, escaped from Walcheren in 1204 in a small fishing boat, signed a peace treaty in 1206, became the sole ruler of Holland by 1210, excommunicated by pope Innocent III because he participated in the war of the French crown prince against the English king John Lackland, but was restored in 1219, died 12-2-1221 or 1222 [4-2-1222?], buried Rijnsburg, married (2) 19-4-1220, Mary of Brabant, married (1) 1197 Stavoren:
21.
Aleida of Gelre, born 1187? 1178?, died
22. Henry I of Louvain, duke of Brabant 1183-1235, duke of Lower-Lorraine 21-8-1190- in succession of his father, knight at Mainz 20-5-1184, born 1165, was the most powerful ruler in this part of Europe, won a battle against count Thierry VII of Holland and count Otto I of Gelre in 1200, lost 's-Hertogenbosch 1202, but defeated the army at Heusden, participated in the crusade 1197, feudal lord of Dordrecht and the old county Strijen Leuven 3-11-1200, received the abbey of Nivel, the royal privileges and possessions in Maastricht and the acknowledgement of Brabant as 'spilleleen Koblenz' on 12-11-1204, died 3/5-9-1235 Cologne, buried Louvain, St. Peter's, married (2) 22-4-1213 Soissons, Mary of France, born 1198, died 15-8-1224, buried Affligem, daughter of Philips II and Agnes of Andechs-Meranie, married (1) between 1-1-1180 and 30-3-1180:
23.
Mathilde of Alsace of Lorraine
of Bouillon, born circa 1160 / 1162 / 1163 /
1165?, died 1211 / 1210?, buried
24.
Henry III, duke of
25. Sophia of Saarbrücken, born 1150?, died after 1214
26. Henry IV the Blind ('de blinde'), count of Namur, count of Luxembourg, born after 1113, inherited the county of Luxembourg through his mother, died 1196 Echternach, married (1) Laurette of Upper-Lorraine, married (2) 1168:
27. Agnes of Gelre, died after 1186
28.
Theobald I, count of Bar-Mousson, born 1158?,
died
29. Ermesinde of Bar-sur-Seine [Brienne?], born prior to 1165, nothing further known about her, died after 1211
30.
Robert II, count of Dreux, born 1154, died
31.
Yolanda of Coucy, born 1161, died
generation 6 (26) ('edelstamouders'):
32. Nicholas Plukiel of Oisy, superintendent of Tournai, lord of Avesnes, Landrecies, Leuze and Condé 1147, born 1129, acquired the title 'lord of Avenes' from his greatgreatgrandfather Waudru of Avesnes, apparently because no other heirs were around, died 1169/1170, married between 1147 and 1150:
33. Mathilde of la Roche [Mahaut], born 1133, married (1) Thierry I of Walcourt, died 1147
34. Burchard [Bouchard], lord of Guise, Lesquielles and St. Germain, born 1125?, died after 1166, married prior to 1155:
35.
36. Baldwin V, count of Hainault and Namur 1188- = Baldwin VIII, count of Flanders, knight, born 1148?, inherited Namur from his mother and Flanders from his wife, died 17-12-1195 Mons or Bergen, buried St. Waudra, Bergen, married ?-7-1169 Le Quesnoy:
37.
Margaretha of
38.
Henry I the Liberal ('de vrije') of
39.
Mary of France, born 1138, she and her sister
Alix married the brothers Henry I and Theobald V, which marriages would have
strengthened the ties between the counts of
40.
Floris III, count of
41.
42. Otto I, 1st count of Gelre and Zutphen 1184-, count of Veluwe, born circa 1150, participated in the Third Crusade 1189-1192, lost a battle against count Thierry VII of Holland on the Grebbeberg in 1196, later fought with him against Brabant, on which occasion they lost from Henry I of Brabant, but pillaged 's-Hertogenbosch in 1202, died after 1206 or after 30-4-1207, buried Kollster Camp, married circa 1185 but prior to 1188:
43.
Richardis of Scheyern-Wittelsbach of
44. Geoffrey III in the Cradle ('in the wieg'), duke of Lower-Lorraine, duke of Brabant 1142-1190, count of Louvain, superintendent of Tongerlo, born circa 1141 / 1140? / 1130?, as he was still young when his father died the lords of Berthout declared themselves independent, but Geoffrey won the war against them, was supported by the German emperor who enlarged his domain, ended the argument with Limburg about the title of duke by his first marriage, died 10/21-8-1190, buried Louvain, St. Peter's, married (2) 1172/1175, Imagina van Loon, married (1) ?-1-1155:
45.
Margaretha of
46. Matthew of Alsace-Lorraine, count of Bouillon 1159-1173, born 1137?, acquired Bouillon through his wife, died 25-7-1173 Driencourt, due to mutilations received during the attack, buried St. Josse, married 1159/1160:
47. Mary of England, countess of Blois 1159- in succession of her brother, countess of Bouillon 1159-, countess of Montaigne, abbess of Ramsey, Hampshire [Romsey?], born 1136?, later nun in St. Austrebert, near Montreuil, died 1181/1182 Montreuil
48. Henry II, count of Limburg 1139, duke of Limburg 1153-, count of Arlon 5-1-1147-, lord of Wassenberg 1151-, chief superintendent of Sint Truiden, superintendent of Rolduc 1136 by his marriage, born 1110/1112/1115, died ?-8-1167 or 11-7- 1167 Rome, buried Rolduc, married (2) 1150 and divorced 1152, Laurette of Flanders, married (1) 1136:
49.
Mathilde of Saffenberg of Limburg, heiress of Rode,
died
50.
Simon I, count of Saarbrücken, born 1120, died
51.
Mathilde of Sponheim of Carinthia, born 1130?, died
52.
Geoffrey I, count of
53.
Ermesinde I of
54. = Henry the Younger of Gelre
55. = Agnes of Arnstein
56.
Raynold II, count of Bar, born 1115, died
57.
Agnes of Blois of Champagne,
born 1138? 1135?, died
58. unknown
59. unknown
60.
Robert I the Great, count of Dreux, born 1123,
died
61. Agnes of Baudement
62. Raoul I of Boves, lord of Coucy, born 1135, died 11-1191 Acco, married prior to 1161:
63. Agnes of Hainault, born 1140, died 1174
generation 7 (27) ('edelstamgrootouders'):
64. Walter I Plukiel of Oisy, superintendent of Tournai, lord of Avesnes, Leuze and Condé, born 1110?, acquired Avesnes, Leuze and Condé at the death of his cousin Goswin of Oisy prior to 1127, died after 1149 [1147?], married:
65.
Ida of Tournai of Montagne
[
66. Henry, count of La Roche, superintendent of Stablo-Malmedy, born 1070?, died between 1128 and 1138 [1135?], married:
67.
Mathilde of
68. Guido of Guise, born 1070?, died after 1141, married:
69.
72. Baldwin IV, count of Hainault, lord of Ath, Braine-le-Villotte, Chimay and Ostrevant, born 1110?, died 6-11-1171 Mons or Bergen, buried Bergen, St. Waudru, married circa 1130:
73.
74.
= Thierry III of
75.
= Sybille of
76. Theobald IV the Great ('de grote'), count of Blois and Chartres 1102-1152, count of Meaux and Brie, count of Troyes, count of Champagne 1125-1152, knight, born after 1089 or 2-4-1090 or 1085, died 10-1-1152 Lagny-sur-Marne [8-1-1152], married 1123:
77.
Mathilde of
78. Louis VII Florus the Pious ('de vrome') the Younger, king of France, born 1120, involved in the argument between the pope and the German emperor about the right to ordain bishops, excommunicated by pope Innocent II because of his opposition to the papal candidate for the bisdom Langres, participated in the Crusade and the conquest of Antioch in 1149, after which he returned to France, abandoned by his wife in 1152, died 18/19-9-1180 Paris, buried Abbey Notre-de Barbeau near Fontainebleau, married (2) 1160, Adelaide of Blois-Champagne, married (1) 22/25-7-1137 Bordeaux and divorced 18-3-1152 Beaugency:
79. Eleanor of Poitou of Aquitaine [Aliénor], born circa 1122 Blaye or Nieul-sur-l'Autrec, Vendée, sole heiress of Aquitaine, Poitou and other domains, alienated and finally divorced from her husband when he was on a crusade and married her second husband, who inherited her possessions, with which event a longlasting war between England and France was inaugurated, died 31-3-1204 / 1-4-1204 Fontevraud, Poitiers, buried Abbey of Fontevraud, married (2) 18-5-1152 Bordeaux, Henry II Curtmantle Plantagenet, king of England 1154-1189, duke of Normandy, lord of Ireland 1175-1189
80. Thierry VI, count of Holland, born 1109 [1110?], added Rhineland to his domain in 1130, including Leyden, warred against his brother Floris the Black ('de zwarte'), died 5-8-1157, buried Rijnsburg, married prior to 1135 [circa 1124?]:
81.
Sophia of Rheineck and Bentheim,
born 1115?, died
82.
Henry of
83.
84.
Henry I the Younger, count of Gelre and Zutphen, born 1124? 1117? 1115?, supported the
Staufians in the German succession war and fought against bishop Baldwin II of
Utrecht and count Floris III of Holland over control of the Veluwe, which was
later incorporated in Gelre, died 4-12-1182?
85. Agnes of Arnstein, born 1128?, died prior to or in 1179
86. Otto V of Wittelsbach [I?], palatinate count and duke of Bavaria, duke of Altenburg, superintendent of Freising, Obermünster, and so on, born circa 1120, died 11-7-1183 Pfullendorf near Constanz, buried Scheyern, married circa 1157:
87.
Agnes of Loon, died
88.
Geoffrey II, duke of Lower-Lorraine 1139-1142,
duke of
89.
Lutgardis of Sulzbach [Lutgardia], regent duchess
of
90. = Henry II of Arlon
91. = Mathilde of Saffenburg
92.
Thierry III of
93.
Sybille of
94. Stephanus, count of Blois, king of England, count of Mortain, count of Alençon, count of Bouillon, knight, born 1095/1096, adopted by his uncle king Henry I of England as successor, died 25-10-1154 Dover, buried Abbey Faversham, Kent, married prior to 1125:
95.
Mathilde, queen of
96. Walram III Paganus, duke of Lower-Lorraine 1128, duke of Limburg, count of Arlon, chief superintendent of Sint-Truiden, born 1085?, appointed duke by king Lotharius of Germany instead of Geoffrey I, count of Louvain, who succeeded Walram after his death, however, in competition with Walram's son, died 16-7-1139, married 1110:
97.
Jutta of Gelre, heiress of Wassenberg, born 1087?, died
98. Adolf IV, lord of Saffenberg and Norrenich, count of Kölngau, superintendent of the 'dom' church at Cologne, count of Rutgau, superintendent of Rolduc, born circa 1075, died prior to 1152, married 1122:
99. Margarethe of Schwarzenburg, mentioned 1122-1134
100. Frederik I, count of Saarbrücken, born 1095, died 1135, married:
101. Gisela of Upper-Lorraine, born 1095?, died prior to 1126
102.
Meginhard I [Meinhard], count of Sponheim, born
1085?, died
103. Mechtild of Mörsberg, born 1090?
102.
Engelbert II of Spanheim, marquess of
103.
Uta of
104. Albert III, count of Namur, count of Château-Porcien, count of Brugeron, superintendent of Andenne, born 1027?, attempted in vain to acquire the duchy of Lower-Lorraine, died 22-6-1102, buried Saint-Aubin, Namur?, married circa 1067:
105.
Ida of
106.
Conrad I, count of
107.
= Clementia of
112.
Raynold I One-Eye ('Eenoog'), count of Bar,
born 1070? 1090?, died
113. Gisela of Lorraine-Vaudémont, born 1090, died after 1141
114.
Theobald IV, count of
115.
Mathilde of
120. Louis VI the Fat ('de vette'), king of France 1108-1137, born autumn 1081 or 1077, trained for his later office by his father from 1098 onwards, eliminated several rebels in the Île de France upon his coronation, died 1-8-1137 Château Béthizy near Paris, buried St. Denis, married (1) 1104, Lucienne de Montlhéry, married (2) 4/5-1115 Paris or 3-8-1115:
121.
124. Ingelram II of Boves [Enquerrand], lord of Coucy, born 1108, died 1148, married 1132:
125. Agnes of Beaugency, born prior to 1108
126.
=
127.
=
generation 8 (28) ('edelstamovergrootouders')
128. Fastradus II of Oisy [Fastré], superintendent of Tournai, born 1075?, died 1111 after 5-8, married:
129. Richilde [Mathilde], nun in the Abbey of St. Martin at Tournai
130. Everhard Radulphus I, viscount of Tournai, lord of Mortagne [Montagne?], knight, born 1060, died after 1110 [circa 1112], married:
131. Helewinde [Helewidis, Helwide], born 1065?
131. Francka
132.
= Albert III, count of
133.
= Ida of
134.
= Henry I of
135.
136. Geoffrey, lord of Guise, married:
137.
138. Burchard IV [Bouchard], lord of Montmorency, born 1087?, died 1131, married prior to 1096:
139. Agnès of Beaumont-sur-Oise, born 1075, died 1124 [prior to 1105?]
144.
Baldwin III, count of Hainault, born
1087/1088?, died
145.
Jolanda of Gelre, regent of Hainault, born 1089?, died 1110?, buried
146.
= Geoffrey I of
147.
= Ermesinde I of
152.
Stephen Henry II the Wise ('de wijze') [Stephanus, Etienne], count of
153.
Adela of Normandy of England,
regent of
154. Engelbert II, married:
155. Uta
156.
= Louis VI the Fat, king of
157.
=
158.
William X, duke of
159. Aliénor of Chatellerault, born 1103, died after 3-1130
160.
Floris II the Fat [Florence], count of
161. Petronilla of Lorraine of Saxony [Petronella], born circa 1078 [between 1082 and 1100? 1078? circa 1080?], regent of Holland during the childhood of her son Thierry VI, defeated 1123 in a battle against emperor Henry V of Germany, died 23/24-5-1144, buried Rijnsburg, sister of emperor Lotharius II, married (2) Lambert de Montaigu
161.
Gertrude of
162. Otto II of Rheineck of Salm, palatinate count, born 1080, died 1150, married circa 1115:
163. Gertrude of Northeim, countess of Bentheim, died prior to 1165
164. David I the Sacred ('de heilige'), king of Scotland 1124-1153, king of the Scottish Lowlands alone 1107-1153, born 1084/1085 Scotland, died 24-5-1153 Carlisle, Cumberland, married 1113:
165. Mathilda of Huntingdon of Northumberland [Matilda], born 1072, died 1130
166.
William II of Varennes, count of
167.
Elisabeth of Clermont of Vermandois, born 1085, died
168. Gerald II, count of Gelre, born 1098?, died between 1133 and 1134, married:
169. Ermengard, heiress of Zutphen, died 1141/1142
170. Louis II of Arnstein, married:
171.
172. Otto IV, palatinate count of Wittelsbach of Scheyern, superintendent of Eisenhofen and Freising, superintendent of Sankt-Ulrich in Augsburg and of Kühlach, died 4-8-1156, buried Ensdorf [Indersdorf], married prior to 13-7-1116:
173. Heilica of Lengenfeld, died 13/14-?-1170, buried with her husband
174.
Louis I, count of Loon and Reineck [Rieneck?], viscount of
175.
Agnes (of
176. Geoffrey I the Bearded ('met de baard'), duke of Lower-Lorraine 13-5-1106, count of Louvain, marquess of Antwerp, superintendent of Afflighem, Gembloers and Nijvel, born 1052? or circa 1060, appointed duke of Lower-Lorraine by emperor Henry V, but the title was almost only ceremonial by then, deposed by king Lotharius 1128, who appointed Walram III, duke of Limburg in his stead, although he maintained his possessions, died 25-1-1139 Jerusalem, buried Afflighem, married (2) after 1117, Clémence of Bourgogne, married (1) 1105?:
177. Ida of Chiny of Namur, born 1088?, died between 1117 and 1121
178. Berengarius II, count of Sulzbach, mentioned as such from 30-4-1099 onwards, born circa 1080, died 3-12-1125 Michelsberg or Kastl, married (1) Adelaide of Lechsgemund, married (2) circa 1113:
179.
184.
Thierry II of
185.
Gertrude of
186.
Fulco V the Younger, count of
187. Ermentrude, heiress of <