Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Count of Hainaut
• Appointments / Titles: Count of Henegouwen
• Appointments / Titles: Count of Maasgau
• Appointments / Titles: Duke of Lorraine
• Appointments / Titles: Duke of Lothringen
• House: House of Reginar
• FSID: L8YG-8PB

Notes:

Reginar Longneck
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Reginar Longneck
Duke of Lorraine
Count of Hainaut
Died 915
Noble family House of Reginar
Spouse(s) Hersinda
Alberada

Issue
Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
Frederick, Archbishop of Mainz[citation needed]

Reginar Longneck or Reginar I (c. 850 – 915), Latin: Rainerus or Ragenerus Longicollus, was a leading nobleman in the kingdom of Lotharingia, variously described in contemporary sources with the titles of count, margrave, missus dominicus and duke. He stands at the head of a Lotharingian dynasty known to modern scholarship as the Reginarids, because of their frequent use of the name "Reginar".

Background
Reginar was probably the son of Gilbert, count of the Maasgau, and a daughter of Lothair I whose name is not known (Hiltrude, Bertha, Irmgard, and Gisela are candidate names). In an 877 charter in the Capitulary of Quierzy, he possibly already appears as "Rainerus", alongside his probable father as one of the regents of the kingdom during Charles the Bald's absence on campaign in Italy.[1]

Career
Reginar was lay abbot of important abbeys stretching from the Maas to the Moselle through the Ardennes, Saint-Servais in Maastricht, Echternach, Stavelot-Malmedy, and Saint-Maximin in Trier. All these abbeys lay on or near the boundary negotiated between the Eastern and Western Frankish kingdoms in the Treaty of Meerssen in 870, during a period when the Western Kingdom controlled much of Lotharingia. In Echternach, he was referred to as "Rainerus iunior" because the lay abbot before him, a probable relative, had the same name.

Reginar's secular titles and activities are mainly only known from much later sources which are considered to be of uncertain reliability. Dudo of Saint-Quentin, in describing the great deeds of the early Normans, calls Reginar I (who, along with a prince of the Frisians named Radbod, was an opponent of Rollo, the founder of Normandy) a duke of both Hainaut and Hesbaye.[2] Centuries later William of Jumièges, and then later still, Alberic de Trois Fontaines followed Dudo using the same titles when describing the same events. He was variously referred to as duke, count, marquis, missus dominicus, but historians doubt that these titles were connected to a particular territory. That he called himself a duke is known from a charter at Stavelot 21 July 905, but this was during a period when Gebhard was duke of Lotharingia.[3]

Reginar was originally a supporter of Zwentibold in 895, but he broke with the king in 898. He and some other magnates who had been key to Zwentibold's election three years earlier then took the opportunity provided by the death of Odo of France to invite Charles the Simple to become king in Lotharingia. His lands were confiscated, but he refused to give them up and entrenched himself at Durfost, downstream from Maastricht. Representatives of Charles, Zwentibold, and the Emperor Arnulf met at Sankt Goar and determined that the succession should go to Louis the Child. Zwentibold was killed by Reginar in battle in August 900.

Louis appointed Gebhard as his duke in Lotharingia. In 908, Reginar recuperated Hainaut after the death of Sigard. Then, after the death of Gebhard in 910, in battle with the Magyars, Reginar led the magnates in opposing Conrad I of Germany and electing Charles the Simple their king. He never appears as the duke of Lorraine, but he was probably the military commander of the region under Charles. He was succeeded by his son Gilbert; however, the Reginarids did not succeed in establishing their supremacy in Lotharingia like the Liudolfings or Liutpoldings did in the duchies of Saxony and Bavaria.

Family
By his wife Alberada, who predeceased him and was probably a second wife, Reginar left the following children:

Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine
Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
a daughter, who married Berengar, Count of Namur

Family/Spouse: de Hainaut, Countess Alberada. Alberada (daughter of de Hainaut, Comte Alban II and de Namur, Hildeberge) was born in 854 in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; died in 916 in Reims, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France; was buried in 916 in Champagne-Ardenne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Count of Henegouwen
• Appointments / Titles: Count of Lorraine
• Appointments / Titles: Count of Louvain
• House: Reginar
• FSID: 9W7P-G88
• Appointments / Titles: 915; Count of Hainaut

Notes:

Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
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Reignar II
Count of Hainaut
Born 890
Died 932 (aged 42)
Noble family Reginar
Issue
Reginar III, Count of Hainaut
Rudolph, Count of the Maasgau
Liéthard
Father Reginar, Duke of Lorraine
Mother Hersinda

Reginar (or Rainier) II (890–932) was Lotharingian magnate who was active from approximately 915 to 932. He was brother of Duke Gilbert of Lotharingia, who died at the Battle of Andernach in 939, and because his son and grandson claimed it, he probably already personally held the fort of Mons in Hainaut as the seat of a county.

History
He was the son of Reginar I Longneck, and this means his paternal grandmother was possibly a daughter of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude.

Flodoard's Annals, reports under the year 924 that Reginar the brother of Duke Gilbert of Lotharingia already had a son who was given as a hostage during conflicts between several of the Lotharingian magnates of the time.[1]

By 943 he was dead, because a charter made in favor of his widowed daughter was done partly in the name of atoning for his sins.[2]

Family
Reginar II had at least three children with Adelaide of Burgundy:

Reginar III, Count of Hainaut
Rudolf, possibly a Count in the Hesbaye
Possibly Liethard or Liechard, a son mentioned in one 966 charter as a son of a Count Reginar.
A daughter who married to Nibelung, Count of Betuwe.
Upon his death, Reginar was succeeded as Count of Hainaut by his son and namesake.

Family/Spouse: de Bourgogne, Princess Adélaïde. Adélaïde (daughter of de Bourgogne, Duke Richard and de Bourgogne, Adélaïde) was born in 896 in Autun, Saône-et-Loire, Bourgogne, France; died in 932 in Hainaut, Belgium; was buried in 932 in Seltz, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Count of Henegouwen
• Appointments / Titles: Count of Lorraine
• House: Reginar
• FSID: LDSS-26H
• Appointments / Titles: Between 940 and 958; Count of Hainaut

Notes:

Reginar III, Count of Hainaut
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Reignar III
Count of Hainaut
Born Brabant
Died before 973
Bohemia
Noble family Reginar
Spouse(s) Adela
Issue
Reginar IV, Count of Mons
Lambert I of Leuven
Father Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
Mother Adelaide of Burgundy
Reginar III (c. 920 – 973) was a Count of Hainaut from approximately 940 until his exile in 958.

He was the son of Reginar II, Count of Hainaut.

He took part in the rebellion of his uncle Gilbert, Duke of Lorraine. When Gilbert was killed in 939, Reginar had to pledge fealty to King Otto the Great.[citation needed]

He then allied himself with King Louis IV of France, but King Otto sent duke Hermann of Swabia to quell the rebels in 944.[1]

Otto appointed Conrad the Red as duke of Lotharingia, who tried to diminish the power of Reginar. However, when Conrad rose against Otto, Reginar supported him. In an anarchic situation, Reginar appropriated the dowry of Gerberga of Saxony, Otto's sister and mother of the French king, and also church property.

In 957, Bruno, Archbishop of Cologne, who had also been appointed duke of Lotharingia, restored order and defeated Reginar.

As Reginar refused to submit, he was exiled to Bohemia, where he died before 973.

References

Family/Spouse: van Leuven, Countess Adele. Adele was born in 929 in Dabo, Moselle, Lorraine, France; was christened in 929 in Ringelheim, Salzgitter, Niedersachsen, Germany; died on 9 Sep 966 in Hainaut, Belgium; was buried on 9 Sep 966 in Hainaut, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Appointments / Titles: Count of Brabant
• Nickname: The Bearded
• FSID: LYCY-PN6
• Appointments / Titles: 1003; Count of Louvain

Notes:

Lambert I of Louvain nicknamed "The Bearded" (born in Louvain, Duchy of Lotharingia, East Francia c. 950, died in Florennes, County of Namur, Duchy of Lower Lorraine, Holy Roman Empire on 12 September 1015) was the first Count of Louvain in 1003. He was killed by Godfrey II, Duke of Lower Lorraine in battle for Godfrey's claim of Count of Verdun.

He was the son of Reginar III, Count of Hainaut and Adela d' Eguisheim, daughter of Hugh V, Count of Eguisheim. His brother was Reginar IV, Count of Mons. He was the husband of Gerberga of Lower Lorraine,[1] and father of:[2]

Henry I, Count of Louvain
Lambert II, Count of Louvain, married Oda of Verdun.
Reinier
Matilda (Maud) of Louvain, countess consort of Boulogne as wife of Eustace I of Boulogne
Eustache I de Fiennes (ca. 1015-1084) was the Lord (Seigneur) of Fiennes..

Family/Spouse: van Neder-Lotharingen, Lady Gerberga. Gerberga (daughter of de Lorraine, Charles I and de Troyes, Adelaide) was born in 975 in Brabant, Meuse, Lorraine, France; died on 27 Jan 1018 in Nivelles, Brabant Wallon, Belgium; was buried after 27 Jan 1018 in Cloister de Sainte Gertrude, Nivelles, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]