Berengar II von Lommegau und Maifeld

• Son of Berengar I von Maifeld
• Occupation: Graf van Namur und Graf von Lommegau

Berengar (Namur), Count of Lommegau and Maifeld

Berengar († after 924) was a count in Lommegau and Maifeld in the 10th century. His family origins are unclear, but he is often associated with the Unruochinger clan.

Berengar was married to a daughter of the Great Reginar I , who was powerful in northern Lotharingia , from whom he may have received the Lommegau as a dowry. He is named as Count of this pagus in two documents issued by the East Frankish King Ludwig the Child in the years 907 and 908. On January 19, 916 he is with his brothers Giselbert and Reginar II on the side of the West Frankish King Charles III. of the simple in Herstal attested.

Berengar carried the uprising of his brother-in-law Giselbert against King Charles III. not with the simple, and was consequently at war with him. In 924 he was able to capture Giselbert, but soon released him after he had taken one of Reginar II's sons as a hostage. [3] After that, nothing more is known about Berengar.

The next count named in the Lommegau was Robert I , who was presumably a son of Berengar. Robert I built the castle of Namur , after which the county of Lommegau was named in the future.

In Berengar's service was the warrior and later Saint Gerard of Brogne.

Sources

• MGH DD LK , p. 181, no. 55 and p. 183, no. 57
• Camillus Wampach: Book of documents and sources on the history of the old Luxembourg territories up to the time of Burgundy , I (1935), p. 170, no. 146
• Flodoard of Rheims , Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3 (1839), p. 373
• Vita Gerardi abbatis Broniensis ; ed. Lothar von Heinemann in MGH SS 15.2 (1881), p. 656