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Alice of Namur

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Alice of Namur
DiedJuly 1169
Valenciennes
Noble familyHouse of Namur
Spouse(s)Baldwin IV of Hainaut
FatherGodfrey I of Namur
MotherErmesinde of Luxembourg

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

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

Her children with Baldwin IV of Hainaut were:

She was buried inside Saint Waltrude Collegiate Church.[7]

References

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  1. ^ Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, pp. 851 Archived 2017-12-27 at the Wayback Machine-852 Archived 2018-12-31 at the Wayback Machine).
  2. ^ 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.
  3. ^ Chronicon Hanoniae 33 (= L. Vanderkindere (ed.), 1904, p. 60).
  4. ^ a b c 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 Archived 2018-12-31 at the Wayback Machine).
  5. ^ a b c d 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 Archived 2018-12-31 at the Wayback Machine).
  6. ^ Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Chronica s.a. 1168 (= L. Weiland (ed.), Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Scriptores XXIII, Hannover, 1874, p. 852 Archived 2018-12-31 at the Wayback Machine).
  7. ^ 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.

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