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Birth:          1165 of Limbourg
Death:          2 Jul 1226 Rolduc
Burial:         Rolduc

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waleran_III,_Duke_of_Limburg
Waleran III (or Walram III) (c.?1165 – 2 July 1226) was initially lord of Montjoie, then 
count of Luxembourg from 1214. He became count of Arlon and duke of Limburg on 
his father's death in 1221. He was the son of Henry III of Limburg and Sophia of 
Saarbrücken.

As a younger son, he did not expect to inherit. He carried on an adventurous youth 
and took part in the Third Crusade in 1192.[1] In 1208, the imperial candidate Philip of 
Swabia died and Waleran, his erstwhile supporter, turned to his opponent, Otto of 
Brunswick. In 1212, he accompanied his first cousin Henry I, Duke of Brabant, to 
Liège, then in a war with Guelders. Waleran's first wife, Cunigunda, a daughter of 
Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine, died in 1214 and in May he married Ermesinda of 
Luxembourg,[2] and became count jure uxoris there. Ermesinda claimed Namur and so 
Waleran added a crown to his coat of arms to symbolise this claim.

In 1221, he inherited Limburg and added a second tail to the rampant lion on his arms. 
This symbolised his holding of two great fiefs. In 1223, he again tried to take Namur 
from the Margrave Philip II. He failed and signed a peace treaty on 13 February in 
Dinant. He then took part in various imperial diets and accompanied the Emperor 
Frederick II into Italy. Returning from there, he died in Rolduc.

Family and children[edit]

Waleran had four children by his first wife, Cunigunda of Lorraine, daughter of 
Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine, and three children by his second wife, Ermesinda of 
Luxembourg:
1.Sophie (c. 1190 – 1226/27), married c. 1210 Frederick of Isenberg
2.Matilda (c. 1192 – aft. 1234), married c. 1210 William III of Jülich, mother of William 
IV, Count of Jülich
3.Henry IV, Duke of Limburg
4.Waleran (c. 1200 – 1242), married Elisabeth of Bar, daughter of Ermesinda of 
Luxembourg by her first husband, Theobald I, Count of Bar
5.Catherine (c. 1215 – 1255), married Matthias II, Duke of Lorraine, nephew of 
Waleran's first wife
6.Henry V, Count of Luxembourg
7.Gerhard, Count of Durbuy

Parents
____ Henry III "the Old" (ABT 1140 - 21 Jun 1221)
VON SAARBRUCKEN Sophia (1150 - AFT 1215)

Siblings
____ Waleran (Walram) IV (1165 - 2 Jul 1226)

Marriage To DE NAMUR Ermensinde (Jul 1186 - 17 Feb 1247)
    m. May 1214 his 2d

Notes

Parents
____ Henry "the Blind" (ABT 1112 - 14 Aug 1196)
____ Agnes (ABT 1150 - )

Children by DE NAMUR Ermensinde Jul 1186 - 17 Feb 1247
____ Henri III (II) "the Blond" (1216 - 24 Dec 1281)

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