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Reginar IV, Count of Mons

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Noble family
  
House of Reginar

Died
  
1013

Name
  
Reginar Count

Mother
  
Adela


Father
  
Reginar III, Count of Hainaut

Spouse
  
Hedwig of France, Countess of Mons

Parents
  
Reginar III, Count of Hainaut

Grandchildren
  
Herman of Mons, Count of Hainaut

Grandparents
  
Reginar II, Count of Hainaut

Children
  
Reginar V, Count of Mons

Reginar iv count of mons


Reginar IV, Count of Mons (c. 950–1013) was the son of Reginar III, Count of Hainaut. Lambert I of Leuven was his brother.

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History

His father was Count of Hainaut until 958, but fell in disgrace with Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor and lost his County to Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine.

He received the County of Mons in 973 but was replaced with Godfrey I, Count of Verdun in 974. He replaced Godfrey as Count of Mons in 998.

Family

Regnier IV married Hedwig, daughter of Hugh Capet and Adelaide of Poitou.

They had children:

  • Reginar V, Count of Mons, married Mathilde of Verdun, daughter of Herman, Count of Brabant.
  • Lambert of Mons
  • Beatrix, who married Ebles I, Count of Rheims and Roucy and Archbishop of Rheims.
  • Ermentrude, died at the age of two or three; buried in the Collegiate Church of Saint Gertrude in Nivelles, Belgium. The burial came to light during an excavation. A lead cross, inscribed with her name and that of her parents, was found in the tomb.

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