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Godefroi de Louvain comté de Louvain et Brabant
(-1142)
Luitgarde von Sulzbach
(1118-)
Louis comté de Loos
Godefroi Louvain duc de Brabant
(1139/42-1186/90)
Imagina de Loos
Godfrey de Louvain
(-Bef 1226)

 

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Alice de Hastings

Godfrey de Louvain

  • Born: Eye, Suffolk, England
  • Marriage: Alice de Hastings 141
  • Died: Bef 26 Apr 1226, Suffolk, England 141

bullet  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: 814
In the second year of the reign of King John, Godfrey de Lovaine (called brother to Henri, duc de Brabant) gave 400 marks for the land and widow of Ralph de Cornhill whose named was Delicia, daughter and heir to Robert de Hastings, by his wife, daughter and heir of William de Windsor, and by this marriage acquired the manor of Estaines holden by barony.

~Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I, p. 293

• Background Information: 141
Godfrey de Lovaine, younger son of Godfrey III, duke of Brabant and count of Louvain, by his second wife, Imaine, daughter of Louis and sister of Gerard, comtés de Loos, passed most of his life in England under John and Henry III. He was, for several periods, custodian of the honor and castle of Eye in suffolk, which his half-brother, Duke Henry, acquired through his wife Maud, granddaughter of King Sephen. In 1212, the King sent him on a political mission to duke Henry.

Godfrey de Louvain married, circa 1199, Alice, widow of Ralph de Cornhill, recently deceased, daughter and heir of Robert de Hastings by a woman who was the heiress of the Windsor family, with whom he had ten knights' fees and lands in London, Middlesex, Essex and Suffolk. At the end of John's reign, Godfrey de Lovain, was in arms against the King, but returned to allegiance in 1217, when his lands were restored to him. He died before 26 Apr. 1226.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, (Lovaine), p. 178


Godfrey married Alice de Hastings, daughter of Robert de Hastings and Matilda de Flamville.141


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