Mother Ida of Saxony | Name Godfrey Count | |
Died August 19, 1139, Normandy, France Parents Albert III, Count of Namur Children Henry IV, Count of Luxembourg, Alice of Namur Great-grandparents Albert I, Count of Namur, Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine | ||
Grandparents Albert II, Count of Namur | ||
Godfrey of Namur (attested in 1080; died 19 August 1139) was a Lotharingian nobleman. He was Count jure uxoris of Porcéan from 1097 until his death. From 1102, he was also Count of Namur. He was the oldest son of Count Albert III and his wife Ida of Saxony, the heiress of Laroche.
In 1121, he founded Floreffe Abbey.
Marriages and issue
Godfrey married twice.
He first married in 1087 Sibylle, a daughter of Count Roger of Château-Porcéan and his wife Ermengarde. Together, they had two daughters:
Sibylle and Godfrey divorced in 1105 because of her pregnancy by her lover Enguerrand I, Lord of Coucy.
In 1109, Godfrey married Ermesinde (d. 24 June 1143), the daughter of Count Conrad I of Luxembourg and Clementia of Aquitaine. She was the widow of Count Albert I of Egisheim-Dagsburg. Together, they had the following children:
- Lauretta of Flanders (married c. 1152; divorced 1163, died c. 1175). She was a daughter of Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders and Margaret of Clermont. She was the widow of Count Ivan of Aalst and of Ralph I, Count of Vermandois; she had divorced Henry II.
- in 1168 to Agnes, a daughter of Henry I, Count of Guelders
Emperor Frederick Barbarossa decided that Ermesinde was the heir to the County of Luxembourg. The county was transferred to her son, who became count of Luxembourg as Henry IV.