Count Godefroi I De  NAMUR

• General Notes
  •  NamurBorn in 1068Died August 19 1139, Was Count of Chateau-Porcien 1087 to 1102Then Count of Namur of 1105 to 1139. He was the son ofAlbert III, Count of Namur, and ofIda of Saxony.
    
    He was married to 1087 Countess Sibylle of Chateau-Porcien, daughter of Count Roger de Chateau Porcien, including:
    
    Elizabeth, married Gervais (? 1124), Count of Rethel, Then Clarembald of Rosoy. But this second marriage is not certain because of genealogy to give wife Clarembald Rosoy of an Elizabeth of Rethel, daughter of Gervais of Rethel and Elizabeth of Namur.
    Flandrin, married to Hugh of Epinoy or Antoing
    In 1102He became Count of Namur and divorced his wife. He remarried in 1109 with Ermesinde of Luxembourg (1075 ? 1143), widow of Albert II (? 1098), Count of Egisheim and Dagsbourg and daughter Conrad I, Count of LuxembourgAnd Clemence of Aquitaine, with whom he had five children:
    
    Alix (1109 ? 1168), married in 1130 to Baldwin IV (1110 ? 1171), Count of Hainault.
    Clemence (c. 1112 ? 1158), married in 1130 to Conrad I (? 1158) Duke of Zaehringen
    Henry (1113 ? 1196), Count of Namur and Luxembourg
    Beatrice (c. 1115 ? 1160), married Ithier (? 1171), Count of Rethel
    Albert (? 1127), cited, along with his brother Henry, in a charter of January 7, 1126 (Barber, History of the ruins of a mill, Volume II, p. 4).
    During his life, Godfrey was a staunch supporter of theEmperor in Lower Lorraine. In 1119He supported his brother Frederick, Bishop of Liège against Alexander of Jülich who also was seeking the bishopric. The Comte de Louvain, A supporter of Alexander, was beaten to HuyBut ravaged the Brabant County of Namur and theBishopric of Liège retiring.
    
    In 1121 Godfrey founded theAbbey FloreffeBut he had trouble with the religious authority, despoiling theAbbaye de Stavelot its lands in Tourinne Hesbaye. It also ravaged the monastery Gembloux, Following a dispute over the election of the abbot 1136 and the monks massacred. Three years later he renounced the county in favor of his son and retired to the monastery Floreffe. He died after a few months.
    
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