Reginar II, Count of Hainaut
Reginar II (890–932) was Count of Hainaut (also written Rainier II, Count of Hainault[1]) from 915 until 932.
Reignar II | |
|---|---|
| Count of Hainaut | |
| Titles and styles
The Count of Hainaut | |
| Born | 890 |
| Died | 932 (aged 42) |
| Noble family | Reginar |
| Issue | |
| Father | Reginar, Duke of Lorraine |
| Mother | Hersinda |
History
He was the son of Reginar I Longneck, and this means his paternal grandmother was possibly a daughter of Charles the Bald and Ermentrude.
Flodoard's Annals, reports under the year 924 that Reginar the brother of Duke Gilbert of Lotharingia already had a son who was given as a hostage during conflicts between several of the Lotharingian magnates of the time.[2]
By 943 he was dead, because a charter made in favor of his widowed daughter was done partly in the name of atoning for his sins.[3]
Family
Reginar II had at least three children with Adelaide of Burgundy:
- Reginar III, Count of Hainaut
- Rudolf, possibly a Count in the Hesbaye
- Possibly Liethard or Liechard, a son mentioned in one 966 charter as a son of a Count Reginar.
- A daughter who married to Nibelung, Count of Betuwe.
Upon his death, Reginar was succeeded as Count of Hainaut by his son and namesake.
| Preceded by Reginar I |
Count of Hainaut  915–932 |
Succeeded by Reginar III |
References
- Samuel Egerton Brydges, Ataviæ regiæ, 1820
- The annals of Flodoard of Reims, 919-966, S. Fanning and David. S. Bachrach trans., in: Readings in medieval civilizations and cultures 9 (Peterborough etc. 2004) p.11. Also Latin edition available at dmgh.de, MGH SS 3, J. Heller and G. Waitz, eds (Hannover 1881).
- Vanderkindere, Léon, ‘A propos d´une charte de Baldéric d’Utrecht’, in: Académie royale de Belgique Bulletin de la Classe des Lettres et des Sciences Morales et Politiques (1900)
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