NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS то VOLUME THE SECOND. WHEN the Charter of the Duchy of Brunswick and Luneburg was granted to Otho, Prince of Saxony, surnamed the Child, by the Emperor Frederick II., the whole of the dignified clergy of the empire subscribed it as witnesses, and after them the following lay princes. 1. Otho, Duke of Bavaria, Count Palatine of the Rhine. 2. Henry, Duke of Brabant. 3. Albert, Duke of Saxony. 4. Berthold, Duke of Carinthia, 5. Matthew, Duke of Lorraine. 6. Herman, Landgrave of Thuringen, Palatine of Saxony. 7. Henry, Margrave of Misnia. 8. Henry, Margrave of Baden. 9. and 10. John and Otho, Margraves of Brandenburg. 11. Herman, Count of Senen. 12. Henry, Count of Bar. 13. David, Count of Cleves; and 14. Henry, Count of Hainault, with many others. Of the families of the first, third, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth of these witnesses, I have given a brief history in the Notes and Illustrations to the first volume, and it only now remains for me to give some account of those who, from having become extinct, could not be noticed among the existing dynasties in Europe. Henry, Duke of Brabant, the second witness in the list, was the son of Henry I., Duke of Brabant. Charles, the youngest son of Louis IV., King of France, was made Duke of Nether Lorraine, in 965, and his daughter, Gerberga, married Limbert, Count of Louvain. Limbert, their second son, became Duke of Brabant and Count of 553 554 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Louvain, on the death of his elder brother Henry, in 1038. He died in 1068, and was succeeded by his son, Godfrey, or Geoffrey I., who married Sophia, the daughter of the Emperor Henry IV.; Godfrey II., their son and successor, married Irmingarde, the daughter of Frederick of Hohenstauffen, and their son, Godfrey III., was Count of Louvain in 1142. Henry I., Duke of Brabant, was the son of Godfrey III., and his son was Henry II., the subscribing witness. The male line of this family became extinct in 1355, when Johanna, the eldest daughter of John III., Duke of Brabant, conveyed the Duchy of her first husband, William IV., Count of Holland, afterwards to her second husband, Wencelaus, Duke of Luxemburg; and finally, in 1406, to the Duke of Burgundy. Berthold, Duke of Carinthia, the fourth witness, is a Prince of whom we have no record whatever. Matthew, Duke of Lorraine, the fifth witness, was descended from Gerhard, Count of Alsace, and the heiress of Albert I., Count of Namur, in 1070. Matthew was the sixth in descent from this Gerhard, but as he was a younger son of Frederick II., Duke of Lorraine, we have no account of his issue. He married Catherine, the daughter of the Duke of Luneburg. The elder branch of the House of Lorraine became extinct in the male line in 1765, and a junior branch of the same family, which became Dukes of Guise, ended in 1675. Mary of Guise, Queen of James V. of Scotland, and mother of Queen Mary Stuart, was the daughter of Claude, first Duke of Guise, and grand-daughter of Renatus, Duke of Lorraine. Herman, Count of Senen, the eleventh witness, is a prince of whose history we are ignorant. Henry, Count of Bar, the twelfth witness, was a descendant of the House of Luxemburg. David, Count of Cleves, was of an ancient and original family. His descendants remained Counts of Cleves, till the reign of the Emperor Sigismund; when Adolphus I. was made Duke of Cleves, and elevated to the rank of a Prince of the Empire. This family is extinct in the male line. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. Of Henry, Count of Hainault, the last witness, we only know that the first Count of Hainault was a certain René or Regnier, that came from the court of France, and rose to distinction by his bravery in the Norman wars. He died about 916, and is considered the common ancestor of the first Dukes of Lorraine, and Counts of Louvain. Regnier, the third in succession from his great ancestor, married the daughter of Hugo Capet, and their male issue ended with Baldwin, Count of Flanders, and Hainault, the conqueror of Constantinople, and first Latin Emperor of the East. Margaret, the youngest daughter of Baldwin, married her guardian, Burchard d'Avesnes, a gentleman of Hainault, and the states of Flanders and Hainault were inherited by the sons of that marriage. 555 THE END. |