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Waleran's coat of arms, with a crown and two tails. Waleran III (or Walram III) (c. 1165 – 2 July 1226) was initially lord of Montjoie, then count of Luxembourg from 1214. He became count of Arlon and duke of Limburg on his father's death in 1221. He was the son of Henry III of Limburg and Sophia of Saarbrücken.
1119 [citation needed] –1139: [b] Waleran II (son of, also kept the ducal title his father had been granted as ruler of Lower Lorraine) [1] 1139–1170: Henry II (son of, also count of Arlon) [1] 1170–1221: Henry III (son of, also count of Arlon) [1] 1221–1226: Waleran III (son of, also count of Arlon and Lord of Monjoie) [1]
Henry III duke of Limburg: Henry IV count of Luxembourg, count of Namur: ∞ 1.Cunigunda of Lorraine: Waleran III duke of Limburg: ∞ 2.Ermesinde (House of Namur) countess of Luxembourg (1) Henry IV duke of Limburg ∞ Irmgard countess of Berg (2) Henry V count of Luxemburg branch of Luxemburg (2) Gerard I count of Durbuy: Waleran IV duke of ...
Waleran was the son of Henry, Duke of Lower Lorraine (1101–1106), [1] and Adelaide of Pottenstein (Adelheid von Botenstein). Henry had been forced to yield the duchy to Godfrey I of Leuven on Henry V's succession, but had kept the ducal title.
The rise of the Limburg dynasty continued, when Duke Waleran III in 1214 became Count of Luxembourg by marriage with the heiress Ermesinde [4] and his son Henry IV in 1225 became Count of Berg as husband of heiress Irmgard. This shows the two modern provinces called Limburg next to the medieval duchy they are both named after.
His father, Waleran III, Duke of Limburg, bore the arms Argent, a lion rampant queue fourchée gules armed langued and crowned or (white field bearing a red double tailed lion with yellow claws, teeth, tongue and crown), generally known as the "Lion of Limburg".
Waleran de Beaumont, 4th Earl of Warwick (1153–1204) Waleran III, Duke of Limburg (c. 1165–1226) Walram II, Count of Nassau (died 1276) Waleran IV, Duke of Limburg (died 1279) Galeran of Ivry (fl. 1272–1280) Waleran I, Lord of Ligny (died 1288) Walram, Count of Jülich (died 1297) Walram of Jülich (died 1349), archbishop of Cologne
When Theobald died in 1214, Ermesinde married Count Waleran III of Limburg (1180–1226), with whom she then ruled Luxembourg. [2] In 1223 Ermesinde and Waleran pressed their claim to Namur against Philip II, but were ultimately unsuccessful. After Waleran's death, Ermesinde ruled Luxembourg alone for two decades.