Ermesinde Anger of Luxembourg

Ermesinde Anger of Luxembourg , born in July 1186, dead the February 12th 1247, was countess of Luxembourg, the Rock and Durbuy of 1197 with 1247. It was only daughter of Henri IV the Blind man, count de Luxembourg and of Namur, and Agnes de Gueldre.

She is sometimes numbered Ermesinde II , Ermesinde Ire being her paternal grandmother, girl of the count Conrad Ier of Luxembourg, but this first Ermesinde reigned forever on Luxembourg, this one having been allotted to her son Henri IV as of the death of Conrad II.

Before his birth, his/her father had designated as successor his nephew Baudouin V of Hainaut. Its birth called into question these successional arrangements and his/her father, already 76 years old and to find a guard to him, promised in marriage it to the two years age to Henri (1166 † 1197) count de Champagne. She then lived her childhood in France at the Champagne court. But Baudouin V renonça not, and at the conclusion of a war and an arbitration of the emperor, the county of Namur was allotted to Baudouin, the county of Luxembourg with Othon Ier of Burgundy and the county of Durbuy and the Rock with Ermesinde.

Henri de Champagne broke his engagement, and Ermesinde was married with Thiébaut Ier (1158 † 1214), count de Bar. Thiébaut negotiated with Othon the renouncement of this last of the county of Luxembourg, and it became countess of Luxembourg with her husband. Thiébaut also tried to reconquer Namur on Philippe de Hainaut the new count, but without success and there renonça by the Dining treaty of , the July 26th 1199.

Thiébaut died the February 13rd 1214 and Ermesinde, old of 27 years, remaria in May 1214 with Waléran III (1180 † 1226), count de Limbourg. Waléran tried to take again Namur, but in vain. The husbands gave up it definitively by the treaty of Dining, the March 13rd 1223. Widow one second time, it managed Luxembourg during 21 years, and its government, wise and careful, made a prosperous country of them.

Descent

Thiébaut and Ermesinde had:

Renaud, lord of Briey, died before 1214
a girl, died in 1214
Elisabeth († 1262), married to Valéran de Limbourg († 1242), lord of Monschau
Marguerite, married to Hugues III († 1243), count de Vaudémont, then in Henri de Bois, who was regent of the Comté of Vaudémont.

Waléran and Ermesinde had:

Henri V '' Fair the (1216 † 1281)
Gerard († 1276), count de Durbuy
Catherine († 1255), married in 1229 with Matthieu II († 1251), duke of Lorraine.

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