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- Upon the death of Conrad II without a male heir, the Roman Emperor appointed Henry IV (known as Henry the Blind), Count of Namur, as the Count of Luxembourg. He was the son of Godfrey I of Namur and Ermesinde of Luxembourg, the daughter of Conrad I.
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List of monarchs of Luxembourg. The territory of Luxembourg has been ruled successively by counts, dukes and grand dukes. It was part of the medieval Kingdom of Germany, and later the Holy Roman Empire until it became a sovereign state in 1815.
The County of Luxembourg (French: Luxembourg; Luxembourgish: Lëtzebuerg) was a State of the Holy Roman Empire. It arose from medieval Lucilinburhuc ("Little Fortress") [1] Castle in the present-day City of Luxembourg , purchased by Siegfried, Count of the Ardennes in 963.
Contents. hide. (Top) Early history. County. Duchy. Habsburg (1477–1795) and French (1795–1815) rule. Governance. French invasion. Developing independence (1815–1890) Crisis of 1867. Separation and the World Wars (1890–1945) First World War. Interwar period. Second World War. Modern history (since 1945) See also. Footnotes. Further reading.
Henry VII (born c. 1269/74, Valenciennes, Hainaut—died Aug. 24, 1313, Buonconvento, near Siena, Italy) was the count of Luxembourg (as Henry IV), German king (from 1308), and Holy Roman emperor (from 1312) who strengthened the position of his family by obtaining the throne of Bohemia for his son.
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About 1060 Conrad, a descendant of Siegfried, became the first to take the title of count of Luxembourg. Conrad’s great-granddaughter, Countess Ermesinde, was a notable ruler whose great-grandson, Henry IV, became Holy Roman emperor as Henry VII in 1308.
May 15, 2024 · The County of Luxembourg, as a territorial principality, was established by Sigefroid's descendants. It wasn't until his great-grandson Conrad I that the title "Count of Luxembourg" first appeared in a document dated 1083, which recorded the founding of the Benedictine Abbey of Munster.
© Musée national d’histoire et d’art (MNHA) The first line of Counts of Luxembourg. Siegfried is said to have founded Luxembourg in 963, when he exchanged some lands with the Saint Maximin Abbey in Trier.
