Emmo of Loon

Count Emmo or Emmon (d. 17 Jan 1078) is one of the first known Counts of Loon. Before him one more count is known with confidence, Giselbert of Loon, but it is not certain that Giselbert was his father. Verhelst for example has proposed that he was his uncle, and that Giselbert's brother Count Arnulf was father of Emmo and also a count of Loon.

Unusually, Emmo and his brother Otto were sometimes jointly referred to as Counts of Loon, though Otto's descendants became Counts of neighboring Duras, through his marriage to the heiress Oda. Emmo's family was probably descended from the 10th century families who held the counties in Hesbaye which were eventually replaced by Loon and Duras. Those same families used similar names including the name Emmo (a short named for Eremfrid).

Emmo married Suanhildis, who was possibly the daughter of Dirk III Hierosolymita, Count of Holland, and Othelandis of Nordmarck. Emmo and Suanhildis had four children:

Emmo was succeeded as Count of Looz by his son Arnold upon his death.

References

  1. ↑ See pedigree p.149 Vaes, Jan (2016), De Graven van Loon. Loons, Luiks, Limburgs, ISBN 9789059087651

Sources

  • Jean Baerten, Het graafschap Loon (11de-14de eeuw), Assen,1969 (link)
  • Souvereyns; Bijsterveld (2008), "Deel 1: De graven van Loon", Limburg - Het Oude Land van Loon (link)
  • Vanderkindere, Léon (1902), La formation territoriale des principautés belges au Moyen Age (link), Vol.2, Ch. 9, p. 128
  • Verdonk, "De herkomst van de heren van Herlaer" link
  • Verhelst, Karel (1985), "Een nieuwe visie op de omvang en indeling van de pagus Hasbania (part 2)", Handelingen van de Koninklijke Zuidnederlandsche Maatschappij voor Taal- en Letterkunde en Geschiednis, 39


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