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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 IV (1195 – 25 February 1247) was the duke of Limburg and count of Berg from 1226 to his death. He was the son of Waleran III, count of Luxembourg and duke of Limburg, [1] and Cunigunda, daughter of Frederick I, Duke 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 Limburg: Adolf VII count of Berg: Reginald I of Guelders defeated at Battle of Woeringen 1288 ...
In 1139, Lothair died and Waleran supported Conrad of Hohenstaufen, who was elected. He remained faithful to the new king until his death shortly thereafter. He was succeeded by Godfrey II of Leuven in Lorraine. Waleran and Jutta's children included: Henry II, Duke of Limburg (d. Rome, Aug 1167), Count of Arlon from 1139 and Duke of Limburg ...
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.
Henry's brother-in-law Count Theobald II of Bar took advantage of the conflict then raging between Duke Frederick III of Lorraine and the bishops of Metz. Henry V was a partisan of the duke and so Theobald took the side of the bishop. Henry was captured in battle at Prény on 14 September 1266. [2]
Henry bestowed it upon his younger son Waleran in 1281, who was killed at the Battle of Worringen in 1288. In 1364, it was elevated to a county by Guy I, and remained in the Luxembourg family and their descendants (with an interruption 1476–1510) until 1719, when it was sold to the Duke of Lorraine by Charles-Francis .