Godfrey I, Count of Namur

Godfrey of Namur was a Lotharingian nobleman. He was Count jure uxoris of Porcéan from 1097 until his death. From 1102, he was also Count of Namur. He was the oldest son of Count Albert III and his wife Ida of Saxony, the heiress of Laroche.
In 1121, he founded Floreffe Abbey, where he also was buried.

Marriages and issue

Godfrey married twice.
He first married in 1087 Sibylle, a daughter of Count Roger of Château-Porcien and his wife Ermengarde. Together, they had two daughters:

Elisabeth, married Gervais, Count of Rethel and later Clarembaud de Roscy;
Flandrine, married Hugh of Épinoy.

Sibylle and Godfrey divorced in 1105 because of her pregnancy by her lover Enguerrand I, Lord of Coucy.
In 1109, Godfrey married Ermesinde, the daughter of Count Conrad I of Luxembourg and his wife Clementia. She was the widow of Count Albert I of Egisheim-Dagsburg and Moha. Together, they had the following children:

Albert who died young
Henry the Blind. He was Count of Luxembourg from 1136 until his death, and Count of Namur, Laroche, Durbuy and Longwy from 1139 to 1189. He was also advocatus of St. Maximin Abbey in Trier and St. Willibrord Abbey in Echternach. He married:
# Lauretta of Flanders. She was a daughter of Thierry of Alsace, Count of Flanders and Margaret of Clermont. She was the widow of Count Ivan of Aalst and of Ralph I, Count of Vermandois; she had divorced Henry II.
# in 1168 to Agnes, a daughter of Henry I, Count of Guelders
Clementia, married in 1130 to Duke Conrad I of Zähringen
Alice, married to Baldwin IV
Beatrix, married Ithier, Count of Rethel

Emperor Frederick Barbarossa decided that Ermesinde was the heir to the County of Luxembourg. The county was transferred to her son, who became count of Luxembourg as Henry IV.