Lambert II Baldéric de Louvain, dit le ceinturé, mort le 19 juin 1054. Il fut comte de Louvain et de Bruxelles de 1040 à 1054. Il était fils de Lambert Ier, comte de Louvain et de Bruxelles, et de Gerberge de Lotharingie. -------------------- Lambert II, Count of Louvain

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Lambert II

Count of Louvain

Spouse Oda of Verdun

Issue

Henry II, Count of Louvain

Régnier

Gerberge

Detail Titles and styles

The Count of Louvain

Noble family House of Reginar

Father Lambert I, Count of Louvain

Mother Gerberga of Lower Lorraine

Died 19 June 1054

Tournai

Lambert II (d. Tournai, June 19, 1054) was count of Louvain between 1033 and 1054. Lambert was the son of Lambert I of Louvain (d. 1015).

According the Vita Gudilae (recordend between 1048-1051) he followed his brother Henry I of Louvain. Lambert scorned both temporal and spiritual authorities and in 1054 even took up arms against Holy Roman Emperor Henry III. He was defeated and lost his life at Tournai.

During his reign Brussels began its growth. Lambert arranged to transfer the remains of Saint Gudule to the St. Michael church. This church, thereafter known as Saints-Michel-et-Gudule, developed to become St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral. 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. This biographical article of a European noble is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

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