Lambert II (d.
TournaiTournai is a Walloon city and municipality of Belgium located 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels, on the river Scheldt, in the province of Hainaut....
, June 19, 1054) was count of
LeuvenLeuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium. It is located about 30 kilometers east of Brussels, with as other neighbouring cities Mechelen, Aarschot, Tienen, and Wavre.The township comprises the historical city of Leuven and the former municipalities of...
between 1033 and 1054. Lambert was the son of
Lambert I of LeuvenLambert I of Leuven nick named "The Bearded" was the first Count of Leuven...
(d. 1015).
According the
Vita Gudilae (recordend between 1048-1051) he followed his brother Henry I of Leuven.
Lambert scorned both temporal and spiritual authorities and in 1054 even took up arms against
Holy Roman EmperorThe Holy Roman Emperor is a term used by historians to denote a Middle Ages ruler, who as German King had in addition received the title of "Emperor of the Romans" from the Pope of the Holy Roman Church, and after the 16th century, the elected monarch governing the Holy Roman Empire, a Central...
Henry IIIHenry III , called the Black or the Pious, was a member of the Salian Dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. He was the eldest son of Conrad II of Germany and Gisela of Swabia and his father made him duke of Bavaria in 1026, after the death of Duke Henry V...
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Lambert II (d.
TournaiTournai is a Walloon city and municipality of Belgium located 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels, on the river Scheldt, in the province of Hainaut....
, June 19, 1054) was count of
LeuvenLeuven is the capital of the province of Flemish Brabant in the Flemish Region, Belgium. It is located about 30 kilometers east of Brussels, with as other neighbouring cities Mechelen, Aarschot, Tienen, and Wavre.The township comprises the historical city of Leuven and the former municipalities of...
between 1033 and 1054. Lambert was the son of
Lambert I of LeuvenLambert I of Leuven nick named "The Bearded" was the first Count of Leuven...
(d. 1015).
According the
Vita Gudilae (recordend between 1048-1051) he followed his brother Henry I of Leuven.
Lambert scorned both temporal and spiritual authorities and in 1054 even took up arms against
Holy Roman EmperorThe Holy Roman Emperor is a term used by historians to denote a Middle Ages ruler, who as German King had in addition received the title of "Emperor of the Romans" from the Pope of the Holy Roman Church, and after the 16th century, the elected monarch governing the Holy Roman Empire, a Central...
Henry IIIHenry III , called the Black or the Pious, was a member of the Salian Dynasty of Holy Roman Emperors. He was the eldest son of Conrad II of Germany and Gisela of Swabia and his father made him duke of Bavaria in 1026, after the death of Duke Henry V...
. He was defeated and lost his life at
TournaiTournai is a Walloon city and municipality of Belgium located 85 kilometres southwest of Brussels, on the river Scheldt, in the province of Hainaut....
.
During his reign
BrusselsBrussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium...
began its growth. Lambert arranged to transfer the remains of
Saint GuduleSaint Gudula was born in the shire of Brabant . According to her 11th century biography , written in Lobbes Abbey between 1048-1051, she was the daughter of a Duke of Lotharingia called Witger and Amalberga of Maubeuge...
to the St.Michael church. This church, thereafter known as Saints-Michel-et-Gudule, developed to become
St. Michael and Gudula CathedralThe St. Michael and St. Gudula Cathedral is located at the Treurenberg hill in Brussels, Belgium. In French, it is called Cathédrale Saints-Michel-et-Gudule and in Dutch Sint-Michiels- en Sint-Goedelekathedraal, usually shortened to "Sint-Goedele"....
. Lambert also constructed a fortress on the Coudenberg hill.
Since Lambert II died in 1054, an imperial charter of September 1062 connecting a certain Lambert to the county Brussels, is probably is refering to another person.