Window from the Mary chapel of Clairefontaine
(1216 –
24 December 1281), called
the Great, was the
count of Luxembourg,
Laroche and
Arlon from 1247 to his death and the
count of Namur between 1256 and 1264 as
Henry III. He was the son and successor of
Waleran III of Limburg and
Ermesinda of Luxembourg.
In 1240 Henry married
Marguerite, daughter of
Henry II of Bar and
Philippa of Dreux who was the great-granddaughter of King
Louis VI of France. Henry's marriage to Margaret brought him
Ligny-en-Barrois as her
dowry, though, by a clause in the marriage contract, it remained under the feudal suzerainty of the
county of Bar. In contempt of this, Henry paid homage in 1256 to
Theobald II of Navarre, in his capacity as
Count of Champagne. Henry's brother-in-law,
Theobald II of Bar, took advantage of the conflict then raging between
Frederick III of Lorraine and the
bishops of Metz. Henry V was a partisan of the duke and so Theobald took the side of the bishop. Henry was captured in battle at
Prény on
14 September 1266. On
8 September 1268,
King Louis IX arbitrated between the two counts and Henry was freed and repossessed of Ligny, but under the suzerainty of the Barrois.
In 1256, Henry seized Namur while the reigning margrave,
Baldwin II, was also reigning
emperor in
Constantinople. Baldwin relinquished his rights to Namur to
Guy of Dampierre,
Count of Flanders, who retook the margraviate from Henry. The two parties made peace and Guy married Henry's daughter.
From Margaret he had the following issue:
He also had at least three bastard sons, including:
- Henry, bastard of Luxembourg (d. 1288), married Isabelle of Houffalize, heiress of Houffalize
Category:1216 birthsCategory:1281 deathsCategory:Luxembourgian peopleCategory:Luxemburg dynastyCategory:Counts of LuxembourgCategory:Margraves of NamurCategory:Articles lacking sources (Erik9bot)cs:Jindřich II. Velikýde:Heinrich V. (Luxemburg)fr:Henri V de Luxembourglb:Heinrich V. vu Lëtzebuergnl:Hendrik V van Luxemburg
