Henry I, Count of Vianden

Henry I
Count Henry I of Vianden
Reign1220–1252
Marquis Henry III of Namur jure uxoris
Reign1229–1237
Bornc. 1190/1210
Died1252
SpouseMargaret, Marchioness of Namur
IssuePhilip I
Henry I van Vianden
Yolanda of Vianden
Frederic of Vianden
Peter
HouseHouse of Sponheim/Vianden
FatherFrederic III, Count of Vianden
MotherMechthild (Mathilde) of Neuerburg
Heinrich I. Burg Vianden.JPG

Henry I (c.1200–1252) was the hereditary Count of Vianden in the Holy Roman Empire, from 1210 and, through his wife, Marquis of Namur from 1229.

Family background

Henry was the son of Frederic III, Count of Vianden (de) (c. 1160 - 1210), and Mechthild (Mathilde) of Neuerburg (?), (b.c. 1130/1170 - c. 1200). At least his father married a Mechtild and another son, Frederick I, younger brother of Henry, inherited Neuerburg and married Cecilia of Isenburg, but that dynasty became extinct with the death of Frederick III of Neuerburg in 1332 (de).

Life

In 1216 Henry married Margaret, Marchioness of Namur, sometimes called "Sibilia" (c. 1194 - 17 July 1270), daughter of Peter II of Courtenay and Yolanda of Flanders. Margaret was the widow of Raoul III, lord of Issoudun and thence Lady of Châteauneuf-sur-Cher and Mareuil-en-Berry.[1][2]

Margaret became Marchioness of Namur after the death of her brother Henry II, Marquis of Namur in 1229. Margaret and Henry ruled Namur (apparently as Henry III of Namur) until 1237 when they had to transfer Namur to Margaret's brother, emperor Baldwin II of Courtenay. Henry and Margaret continued ruling Vianden.

Henry V, Count of Luxembourg (1216 – 1281), maternal grandson of Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg (Henry I of Namur), invaded Namur and ruled it 1256-1264 as Henry IV (or III). Baldwin sold Namur in c. 1263 to his cousin Guy of Dampierre, count of Flanders and Henry IV was removed by military force but they made peace with family marriage.

After Henry's death in 1252, Margaret entered a convent in Marienthal.

Issue

Some earlier researches believed that Margaret's daughter Matilda was born from her second marriage, with Henry I of Vianden, but later scholars pointed out that Margaret's first husband Raoul III of Issoudun, in his 1212 testament, mentioned their "little daughter" (lat. filiola) Matilda, thus concluding that she was born from Margaret's first marriage.[3][4] Henry's stepdaughter Matilda was later (c. 1230) married to John Angelos (b. c. 1193 - d. before 1250), Lord of Syrmia. Matilda and John had a daughter Maria (c. 1235 - a. 1285) whose husband Anselm (Anseau) de Cayeux (the younger) worked for King Charles I of Naples. Since Maria is mentioned, in some 1280s sources, as sister (lat. soror) of Queen Helen of Serbia (c. 1236–1314), some researchers have proposed that Helen was also a daughter of Matilda, and thus grand-daughter of Henry's wife Margaret.[5][6]

Henry and Margaret had the following children:

Ancestry

Ancestors of Henry I, Count of Vianden
Gerhard (house of Sponheim ?).
Frederic I of Vianden (de) (1124-c. 1150)
Adelheid
Frederic II, Count of Vianden (de) (1163-1187)
Count of Niedersalm
Bertolph, count of Vianden ?
a daughter of Bertolph, count of Vianden ?
Frederic III, Count of Vianden (de) (c. 1160 - 1210)
Hermann II Count of Salm (1075-1135)
Henry I of Salm (d.a. 1153)
Agnès of Mousson (Bar ?)
Elisabeth of Salm
Countess of Niedersalm
Hugo XI, Count of Dagsburg ?
Clementia of Dagsburg
Gertrud van Looz ?
Henry I
Count of Vianden
Hermann II Count of Salm (1075-1135) =
Henry I of Salm
Agnes of Mousson (Bar ?) ?
Lambert of Neuerburg ?
or Henry of Salm-Blâmont ?
Henry of Lutzelburg ?
Hadwide (Hadwige) of Lutzelburg ?
Mechthild (Mathilde) of Neuerburg
?
or Pierre of Lutzelburg ?
?
or Henry of Lutzelburg ?
Mathilde of Are ?
or Hadwide (Hadwige) of Lutzelburg
Several contradictory theories exist about the ancestry of Mechthild of Neuerburg (b.c. 1170), and there seems to exist someone else with a corresponding name also about year 1200. Henry I of Salm-Blâmont (Heinrich I Salm-Blankenberg)

reigned about 1260-1300, and was grandson of Henry III of Salm so she could not be daughter of this one. Salm-Blankenberg was a separate county from 1246. Some Henry of Salm might have been called Salm-Blâmont erroneously. For Henry I of Salm only one wife seems to be documented, Clementia,

and two children, Elizabeth and Henry II. Hadwige of Lutzelburg (d.c. 1165) married to some Henry, and Lambert von der Neuerburg seem to be closely related to Mechthild. Relatives might be father Lambert I of Tonna/Gleichen (de) (1105-1149), mother Mathilde of Are (1104-) and husband Burchard of Querfurt (1125-1179). This matter needs further investigation with more reliable sources.

See also

References

  1. ^ Devailly 1973, p. 375, 424-425, 433-435.
  2. ^ Abbott 1981, p. 177-178.
  3. ^ Van Tricht 2011, p. 178.
  4. ^ Van Tricht 2020, p. 56–107.
  5. ^ McDaniel 1984, p. 43.
  6. ^ McDaniel 1986, p. 196.
  7. ^ Lawson 1995, p. 9, 11.
  8. ^ Van Houts 2014, p. 127-143.

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