Waleran III, Duke of Limburg
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Waleran III (or Walram III) (c. Template:TrimScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". – 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.
Military campaigns
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.Template:Sfn 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,Template:Sfn and became count Script error: No such module "Lang". there.
Reign
In 1221, he inherited Limburg. 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
Waleran married as his first wife, Cunigunda of Lorraine,Template:Sfn daughter of Frederick I, Duke of Lorraine. Later he married, Ermesinda of Luxembourg.Template:Sfn
Children with Cunigunda of Lorraine:
- Sophie (c. 1190 – 1226/27), married c. 1210 Frederick of Isenberg
- Matilda (c. 1192 – aft. 1234), married c. 1210 William III, Count of Jülich, mother of William IV, Count of Jülich
- Henry IV, Duke of Limburg, married Irmgard of Berg, heiress of the County of Berg, a daughter of the count Adolf VITemplate:Sfn
- Waleran (c. 1200 – 1242), married Elisabeth of Bar, daughter of Ermesinda of Luxembourg and Theobald I, Count of Bar
Children with Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg:
- Catherine of Limburg (c. 1215 – 1255), married Matthias II, Duke of Lorraine, nephew of Waleran's first wife
- Henry V, Count of Luxembourg married Margaret of BarTemplate:Sfn
- Gerhard, Count of Durbuy
Notes
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