Family: Duke Waleram Montj / Ermensinde de Namur (F3565)

• Male Duke Waleram Montj

  
  

  Birth	1180	Hasselt, Limburg, Belgium
  Death	Jul 1226	Netherlands
  Burial		Rolduc Abbey, Limburg, Netherlands
  Marriage	May 1214  [1, 2]	Netherlands  [1, 2]
  Father	Henri Limburg | F3341 Group Sheet
  Mother	Sophia von Saarbrucken | F3341 Group Sheet

  
  

  Female Ermensinde de Namur

  
  

  Birth	Jul 1186	Namur, Belgium
  Death	17 Feb 1247	Germany
  Burial		Arlon, Luxembourg, Belgium
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  Male Count Maas Henri de Luxembourg, V

  
  

  Birth	1217	Arlon, Luxembourg, Belgium
  Death	24 Nov 1281	Walloon Brabant, Luxembourg, Belgium
  Burial		Arlon, Luxembourg, Belgium
  Spouse	Marguerite de Bar | F3260
  Marriage	4 Jun 1240	Luxembourg, Belgium

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] Ancestry Family Trees, (Name: Online publication - Provo, UT : Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.;), Database online. [S978] Wikipedia: Ermesinde, (Name: Wikipedia;), Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg. Ermesinde (July 1186 – 12 February 1247) ruled as the countess of Luxembourg from 1197 until her death. She was the only child of Count Henry IV and his second wife Agnes of Guelders. Prior to her birth, Ermesinde's aging father, Count Henry IV of Luxembourg, had recognized his nephew Count Baldwin V of Hainaut as his heir presumptive. However, the 74-year-old count reunited with his estranged wife, Agnes of Guelders, and fathered a daughter, Ermesinde, who displaced Baldwin as heir presumptive. Upon Henry's death in 1196, a war of succession took place. At its end, it was decided that Henry's fiefs would be split: Baldwin would have Namur, Ermesinde would have Durbuy and La Roche, and Luxembourg would revert to their common liege, Emperor Henry VI, who then gave it to his brother Otto. Ermesinde was initially betrothed to Count Henry II of Champagne, but the engagement was cancelled in 1189. Instead her first husband was Count Theobald I of Bar.[1] He successfully negotiated with Count Philip I of Namur and his brother Count Baldwin IX of Flanders for renunciation of Luxembourg, thus making Theobald and Ermesinde the count and countess of Luxembourg.[2] When Theobald died in 1214, Ermesinde married Count Waleran III of Limburg (1180–1226), with whom she then ruled Luxembourg.[1] In 1223 Ermesinde and Waleran pressed their claim to Namur against Philip II, but were ultimately unsuccessful. After Waleran's death, Ermesinde ruled Luxembourg alone for two decades. She proved to be an effective administrator, granting charters of freedom to several towns and increasing the prosperity of her country. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ermesinde,_Countess_of_Luxembourg