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The county of Hainaut was created in the late 9th cent., and in the divisions of the Carolingian empire became a fief of Lotharingia. Count Reginar Long-Neck made himself master (late 9th–early 10th cent.) of the duchy of Lower Lorraine, which continued under his elder son (see Lotharingia ), while his younger son inherited Hainaut.
Sep 9, 2023 · Katherine became the third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and their descendants were the Beaufort family, which played a major role in the Wars of the Roses. Henry VII, who became King of England in 1485, derived his claim to the throne from his mother Lady Margaret Beaufort, who was a great-granddaughter of Gaunt and Katherine ...
The Count of Hainaut was the ruler of the county of Hainaut, a historical region in the Low Countries. uncertain) Amaury (fl. 953-973) (uncertain) Werner (r. 973) Arnulf of Valenciennes (d. 1011/1012), also probably count of Cambrai; Baldwin IV (r. 988–1035) Baldwin V (r. 1035–1045) Herman (r. 1039–1051), Baldwin I (r. 1051–1070), also ...
A Carolingian feudal county in its own right from the late-8th century, Artois was annexed by the County of Flanders (898 onwards). It came to France in 1180 as the dowry of a 10-year-old Flemish noblewoman, Isabelle of Hainaut, and was again made a separate county in 1237 for Robert, a grandson of Isabelle.
Hainaut is an Imperial County named after the ancient Franconian Henne-Gau. I also included the Imperial territories of the Bishopric of Cambrai. These French-speaking lands would never fully assert their independence, being passed between different families. Their artistic traditions reflect their role as a borderland between the French and Dutch-speaking lands.
HAINAUT - COUNTY OF HAINAUT - GUILLAUME I (1304-1337) Guillaume I was the son of Jean II d'Avesnes, Count of Hainaut, and Philippine, daughter of Count Henri II of Luxembourg. He married Jeanne de Valois, daughter of Charles I de Valois, in 1305. He died in 1337 and was succeeded by his daughter Guillaume II.
The County of Hainaut (French: Comté de Hainaut; Dutch: Graafschap Henegouwen; Latin: comitatus hanoniensis), sometimes spelled Hainault, was a territorial lordship within the medieval Holy Roman Empire that straddled what is now the border of Belgium and France. Its most important towns included Mons (Dutch: Bergen), now in Belgium, and Valenciennes, now in France. The Counts of Hainaut were ...
