Albert I (died ca. 1011) the son ofRobert I, was a count who held the castle ofNamur and a county in theLommegau. His county came to be referred to as theCounty of Namur in records during his lifetime.[1]
Albert married Ermengarde, daughter ofCharles, Duke of Lower Lorraine,[2] and had:
There are some doubts about the correct list of his daughters, as there are two very different lists given in two primary documents.[4]
The "Genealogia ex Stirpe Sancti Arnulfi" lists:[5]
The "Vita Arnulfi Episcopi Suessioniensis" lists (as siblings of one of the Counts named Albert of Namur, whose parents are not named):[6]
A 3rd relevant source is theGesta ofSint-Truiden Abbey which also named Countess Ermengarde having a daughter named Lutgarde who married a Count Otto of Loon and was mother toBishop Balderic II of Liège, brother of CountGiselbert of Loon. As Jean Baerten and other authors have pointed out, this is chronologically impossible, though it is possible Lutgarde could be mother of Emmo and Otto.[7]
Ludgarde and Emma, both with a connection to Looz, are sometimes therefore thought to represent a garbled account of the same person.
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