The following is a list of
Marquisses or
Margraves of NamurNamur is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France. Its capital is the city of Namur...
.
Namur was not often an independent state, rather under the dominion of other entities like the counties of Hainaut and
FlandersThe County of Flanders was a historical region in the Low Countries.It consisted not only of the two actual Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders but also much of the present-day French département of the Nord , in parts of which there is still a minority speaking the French Flemish...
or the
Duchy of BurgundyThe Duchy of Burgundy was a feudal territory in Medieval Europe. It roughly conforms to the modern Bourgogne, although it grew to have considerable possessions in the Low Countries as well...
.
Succession is from father to son, unless otherwise noted.
- Albert I
Albert I was the son of Robert I, Count of Lomme, and Ermengarde of Lorraine.. He became Count of Namur in 998.He married Ermengarde, daughter of Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, and had three children:*Liutgard of Namur...
(r. 992 – 1011)
- Robert I (r. 1011 – 1016)
- Albert II (r.
The following is a list of
Marquisses or
Margraves of NamurNamur is a province of Wallonia, one of the three regions of Belgium. It borders on the Walloon provinces of Hainaut, Walloon Brabant, Liège and Luxembourg in Belgium, and on France. Its capital is the city of Namur...
.
Namur was not often an independent state, rather under the dominion of other entities like the counties of Hainaut and
FlandersThe County of Flanders was a historical region in the Low Countries.It consisted not only of the two actual Belgian provinces of East Flanders and West Flanders but also much of the present-day French département of the Nord , in parts of which there is still a minority speaking the French Flemish...
or the
Duchy of BurgundyThe Duchy of Burgundy was a feudal territory in Medieval Europe. It roughly conforms to the modern Bourgogne, although it grew to have considerable possessions in the Low Countries as well...
.
Succession is from father to son, unless otherwise noted.
House of Namur
- Albert I
Albert I was the son of Robert I, Count of Lomme, and Ermengarde of Lorraine.. He became Count of Namur in 998.He married Ermengarde, daughter of Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, and had three children:*Liutgard of Namur...
(r. 992 – 1011)
- Robert I (r. 1011 – 1016)
- Albert II (r. 1016 – 1037)
- Albert III (r. 1037 – 1102)
- Godfrey I (r. 1102 – 1139)
- Henry I the Blind
Henry IV , called the Blind , was count of Luxembourg from 1136 and count of Namur from 1139 until his abdication in 1189. He was the son of Godfrey I of Namur and Ermesinda, daughter of Conrad I of Luxembourg.He inherited the counties of La Roche and Durbuy from cousins Henry II of Durbuy and...
(r. 1139 – 1189)
- Alice
Alice of Namur was the heiress of Namur when her brother Henry IV of Luxembourg died childless in 1196. She was the wife of Baldwin IV Count of Hainault...
, sister of, married Baldwin IV, Count of HainautBaldwin IV was count of Hainaut from 1120 to his death. He was the son of Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut.-History:...
House of Hainaut
- Baldwin I
Baldwin V of Hainaut was count of Hainaut , count of Flanders as Baldwin VIII and margrave of Namur as Baldwin I .-History:...
(r. 1189 – 1195), nephew of
- Philip I (r. 1195 – 1212)
- Yolanda
Yolanda of Flanders ruled the Latin Empire in Constantinople for her husband Peter II of Courtenay from 1217 to 1219.She was the daughter of Baldwin V, Count of Hainault, and Countess Margaret I of Flanders. Two of her brothers, Baldwin I and then Henry, were emperors in Constantinople...
(r.1212 – 1217), sister of, also Empress of the Latin Empire as Yolanda I, married Peter II of Courtenay
House of CourtenayThe House of Courtenay was an important dynasty in medieval France originating from the castle of Courtenay in the Gâtinais , going back to the 10th century. The dynasty descended from Athon, the first lord of Courtenay, apparently himself a descendant of the Counts of Sens and from Pharamond,...
- Philip II (r. 1217 – 1226)
- Henry II (r. 1226 – 1229), brother of
- Margaret (r. 1229 – 1237), sister of
- Baldwin II
Baldwin II of Courtenay was the last emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople.He was a younger son of Yolanda of Flanders, sister of the first two emperors, Baldwin I and Henry of Flanders...
(r. 1237 – 1256), brother of, also Emperor of the Latin Empire as Baldwin II
House of LuxembourgThe House of Luxembourg was a mediæval Luxembourgian noble family. In 1308, Henry, Count of Luxembourg, became German king, his son, John of Luxembourg, shortly afterwards received the Bohemian crown. The dynasty's rule in the Holy Roman Empire was interrupted by the Wittelsbach twice. With the...
- Henry III (r. 1256 – 1265), grand son of Henry I
House of Flanders
- Guy I of Dampierre (r. 1265 – 1297)
- John I (r. 1297 – 1330)
- John II (r. 1330 – 1335)
- Guy II (r. 1335 – 1336), brother of
- Philip III (r. 1336 – 1337), brother of
- William I (r. 1337 – 1391), brother of
- William II
William II, marquis of Namur inherited the marquisate of Namur from his father William I in 1391 and held it until his own death. His mother was Catherine of Savoy...
(r. 1391 – 1418)
- John III (r. 1418 – 1421; died 1429), brother of
In 1421, John III sells his estates to
Philip the GoodPhilip the Good , also Philip III, Duke of Burgundy was Duke of Burgundy from 1419 until his death. He was a member of a cadet line of the Valois dynasty . During his reign Burgundy reached the height of its prosperity and prestige and became a leading center of the arts...
,
Duke of BurgundyDuke of Burgundy was a title borne by the rulers of the Duchy of Burgundy, a small portion of traditional lands of Burgundians west of river Saône which in 843 was allotted to Charles the Bald's kingdom of West Franks.-Bosonid dynasty:...
.
House of BurgundyThe House of Burgundy was a cadet branch of the Capetian dynasty, descending from Robert, Duke of Burgundy, a younger son of Robert II of France....
- 1405-1419 : John IV the Fearless
- 1419-1467 - Philip IV the Good
- 1467-1477 : Charles I the Bold
- 1477-1482 : Mary I the Rich
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, daughter of, married
House of Habsburg
- 1493-1519 : Maximilian
Maximilian I of Habsburg was King of the Romans from 1493 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death, but had ruled jointly with his father for the last ten years of his father's reign, from circa 1483...
, husband of, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Maximilian I
- 1519-1556 : Charles II
Charles V was ruler of the Holy Roman Empire from 1519 and, as Charles I of Spain, of the Spanish realms from 1516 until his abdication in 1556...
, grandson, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Charles V
Charles V proclaimed the
Pragmatic Sanction of 1549The Pragmatic Sanction of 1549 was an edict, promulgated by Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, reorganizing the Seventeen Provinces.It was Charles' plan to centralize the administrative units of Holy Roman Empire. The Seventeen Provinces were carved out of the Holy Roman Empire...
eternally uniting Namur with the other lordships of the Low Countries in a personal union. When the Habsburg empire was divided among the heirs of Charles V, the
Low CountriesThe Seventeen Provinces were a personal union of states in the Low Countries in the 15th century and 16th century, roughly covering the current Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, a good part of the North of France , and a small part of the West of Germany.The Seventeen Provinces were originally held...
, including Namur, went to
Philip II of SpainPhilip II was King of Spain and Portugal, Naples, Sicily, and, during his wife Mary Tudor's reign, King of England and Ireland...
, of the Spanish branch of the House of Habsburg.
- 1556-1598 : Philip V
Philip II was King of Spain and Portugal, Naples, Sicily, and, during his wife Mary Tudor's reign, King of England and Ireland...
, also King of Spain as Philip II
- 1598-1621 : Isabella Clara Eugenia, daughter of, married Albert, Archduke of Austria)
- 1621-1665 : Philip VI
Philip IV was King of Spain between 1621 and 1665, sovereign of the Spanish Netherlands, and King of Portugal until 1640. On the eve of his death in 1665, the Spanish empire reached its territorial zenith spanning almost 3 billion acres...
, half brother of, also King of Spain as Philip IV
- 1665-1700 : Charles III
Charles II , was the last Habsburg King of Spain and the ruler of nearly all of Italy , the Spanish territories in the Southern Low Countries, and Spain's overseas Empire, stretching from Mexico to the Philippines...
, also King of Spain as Charles II
Between 1706 and 1714 Namur was invaded by the English and the Dutch during the
War of the Spanish SuccessionThe War of the Spanish Succession was fought among several European powers, principally the Holy Roman Empire, Great Britain, the Dutch Republic, Portugal, and the Duchy of Savoy, against the Kingdoms of France and Spain and the Electorate of Bavaria, over a possible unification of the Kingdoms of...
. The fief was claimed by the House of Habsburg and the
House of BourbonThe House of Bourbon is an important European royal house, a branch of the Capetian dynasty. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the 16th century. By the 18th century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain, Naples & Sicily, and Parma...
. In 1712 Luxemburg and
NamurNamur is a city and municipality in Wallonia, in southern Belgium. It is both the capital of the province of Namur and of Wallonia....
were ceded to
Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of BavariaMaximilian II , also known as Max Emanuel or Maximilian Emanuel, was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector of the Holy Roman Empire. He was also the last Governor of the Spanish Netherlands and duke of Luxembourg...
by his French allies, but with the end of the war in 1713 with the Treaty of Utrecht Max. Emanuel was restored Elector of Bavaria. So the Treaty of Utrecht settled the succession and the Margraviate0 of Namur went to the Austrian branch of the House of Habsburg.
- 1714-1740 : Charles IV
Charles VI was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary , King of Bohemia and Archduke of Austria from 1711 to 1740...
, great grandson of Philip III
- 1740-1780 : Mary II Theresa
, daughter of, married Francis Ialign=right | Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, though his wife effectively executed the real power of those positions...
- 1780-1790 : Joseph I, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Joseph II
The title was factually abolished in the aftermath of the
French revolutionThe French Revolution was a period of political and social upheaval and radical change in the history of France, during which the French governmental structure, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy, underwent radical change to forms based...
and the annexation of Namur by France in 1795. Although, the title remained officially claimed by the descendants of Leopold II until the reign of
Karl I of AustriaCharles I was the last ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire...
.
- 1790-1792 : Leopold
Leopold II , born Peter Leopold Joseph Anton Joachim Pius Gotthard, was Holy Roman Emperor from 1790 to 1792, King of Hungary, archduke of Austria, and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was a son of Emperor Francis I and his wife, Empress Maria Theresa...
, brother of, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Leopold II
- 1792-1835 : Francis II
Francis II was the last Holy Roman Emperor, ruling from 1792 until 6 August 1806, when he dissolved the Empire after the disastrous defeat of the Third Coalition by Napoleon at the Battle of Austerlitz...
, also Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire as Francis II
- 1835-1848 : Ferdinand
Not to be confused with Ferdinand I, Holy Roman EmperorFerdinand was Emperor of Austria, President of the German Confederation, King of Hungary, and associated dominions from the death of his father, Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, until his abdication after the Revolutions of 1848.He married...
, also Emperor of Austria as Ferdinand I
- 1848-1916 : Francis III Joseph
Franz Joseph I , reigned as Emperor of Austria and King of Bohemia from 1848 until 1916 and as King of Hungary and Crotia from 1848 until 1916 .-Early life:Franz Joseph was born in the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, the oldest son of...
, grandson of Francis II, also Emperor of Austria as Francis Joseph I