Arnold van Loon I

• Preferred Name: Arnold van Loon I^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]}
  
• Alternate Name: van Loon
  
• Gender: M
  
• Burial: 11 APR 1139
  
• FSID: G4R8-PS1
  
• Birth: 10 MAR 1050 in Heusden, Noord-Brabant, Nederland at LATI: N1.7327 LONG: E0.1392
  
• Death: 1139
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Arnold I (approx 1050-approx 1130), Count of Looz (Loon) (from approx 1079), son of Emmo, Count of Loon, and Suanhildis, daughter of Dirk III, Count of Holland, and his wife Othelandis.
  
  He was an ally of Henry of Verdun and Otbert, both bishops of Liège. In 1078, he endowed the Collegiate Church of Huy and that of St. John at Liège.
  
  In 1088, he spoke on the request of Bishop Henry of Verdun to end a conflict in the Abbey of St. Truiden where the bishop and emperor Henry IV had both appointed a successor abbot. As a result of his diplomacy, the emperor transferred the authority of the abbey of Sint-Truiden from Henry I, Duke of Lower Lorraine, to Arnold. Arnold forced Henry and his ally Godfrey of Bouillon, to withdraw from the monastery. The domain of Arnold expanded with the County of Rieneck by his marriage to Agnes.
  
  Arnold married Agnes von Mainz, daughter of Gerhard I, Count of Rieneck, and Helwig von Bliescastel. Sources disagree on their number of children, but are believed to include:
  
  1.) Gerard? (d. 1103, but probably did not exist). Count of Loon for a brief period according to the old Belgian National Biography, pointing to a charter of 1101. Baerten (1969 p.40 footnote 2) describes this as a mistake caused by modern edition with a wrongly placed comma, and gives references to the literature.
  
  2.) Arnold II, Count of Looz. He is distinguished from his father of the same name by historians who note records for counts named Arnold or Arnulf between 1179 and 1141, which seems too long to be one person. The first Arnold must have died between 1125 when Count Arnold appears in a record with his son also named Arnold, and 1135, when a new Count Arnold appears with his own son and successor Louis.
  
  3.) Gertrude van Loon (1100-1154), married to Hugo XI, Count of Dagsburg. Their son was Hugo XII, Count of Dagsburg, who married Luitgarde, widow of Godfrey II, Count of Louvain. She was daughter of Berengar II of Sulzbach, and sister of Gertrude von Sulzbach, wife of Conrad III of Germany, and Bertha, wife of Manuel I Comnenus, the emperor of Byzantium. Their granddaughter was Gertrude of Dagsburg, wife of Theobald I, King of Navarre.
  
  4.) Agnes van Loon (b. ca 1100), married Gerhard IV, Count of Jülich
  
  5.) Beatrix van Loon (d. after 1132), married Arnout III, Count of Aarschot and had issue.
  
  While the confusion about the non-existent "Gerard" remains, Arnold is now understood to have been succeeded by his son Arnold as Count of Looz upon his death.
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  "Arnold volgde zijn vader Emmo van Loon op in 1079 of eerder. In 1086 werd hij ook voogd van de Sint-Pieter te Luik. In 1088 bemiddelde Arnold in een conflict over de opvolging van zijn oom Otto II van het graafschap Duras als abt van abdij van Sint-Truiden. Hij hielp de Luikse prins-bisschop Hendrik I van Verdun om diens kandidaat aan de macht te brengen. Hiervoor kreeg hij in 1094 de functie van voogd van Sint-Truiden, voor de bezittingen in het bisdom Metz - ondanks fel verzet van Hendrik I van Limburg. Omstreeks 1115 erfde hij van zijn schoonvader de functie van burggraaf van Mainz. Hij werd ook voogd van het stift St.-Peter & Alexander te Aschaffenburg. In 1119 steunde Arnold de kandidatuur van Frederik van Namen voor de functie van bisschop van Luik, die inderdaad werd gekozen."
  
  (bron: https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_I_van_Loon)
  
  Arnold I (approx 1050-approx 1130)
  Arnold I (approx 1050-approx 1130), Count of Looz (Loon) (from approx 1079), son of Emmo, Count of Loon, and Suanhildis, daughter of Dirk III, Count of Holland, and his wife Othelandis.
  
  He was an all
  
  === W H Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry pp ===
  W H Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry pp 24, 20
  
  === == Biography == ===
  == Biography ==
  : Arnold I (van Rode) van Heusden (geboren 1070 – overleden 1135). Heer van Heusden. Zoon van Robert IV van Heusden en Johanna van Altena.Hij was heer van Heusden en Rode.Hij gehuwd met :# Heilwina van Walbeck. Geboren omstreeks 1065. Dochter van Siegfried II van Walbeck en Guda van Valkenburg.
  # met Helwig van Cuijk (1075-1125).
  Kinderen:
  # Herman van Heusden .
  # Arnold II van Rode
  # Gijsbert I van Rode
  
  == Sources ==
  * Source: [http://johnooms.nl/heren-en-vrouwen-van-adel/heren-van-heusden/ heren en vrouwen van adel van Heusden]
  
  === (Count of Loor) ===
  (Count of Loor)

1. Arnold van Loon II, b. 1085 in Borgloon, Limburg, Belgium     d. 18 APR 1146 in Liège, Belgium

1. Title: Arnoud/arnulf I, Graaf van Loon
   Publication: Name: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-252878671-1-572510/arnoudarnulf-i-graaf-van-loon-in-myheritage-family-trees?fspid=G6WX-SK9;
   
2. Title: House of Loon
   Publication: Name: https://wappenwiki.org/index.php/House_of_Loon;
   
3. Title: Arnoldus Arnulff van Loon
   Publication: Name: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-208930541-2-546648/arnoldus-arnulff-van-loon-in-myheritage-family-trees?fspid=G4MP-4XV;
   
4. Title: Geni.com
   Author: https://www.geni.com/people/Arnold-I-Count-of-Looz/6000000012397062411
   Publication: Name: https://www.geni.com/people/Arnold-I-Count-of-Looz/6000000012397062411;
   Note: Arnold van Loon Birthdate: circa 1050 Birthplace: Looz, Limbourg, Liege, Belgium, 1050/60 Death: circa 1125 (66-84) Loon, Belgium, after 1125 Immediate Family: Son of Emmo II, Count of Looz and Suanehildis of Holland Husband of possible daughter Swanhilde ? de Metz Father of Gertrude van Loon (de Looz); Agnes van Loon; Beatrix (Argésile de Pépin) van Loon and Arnold II, Count of Looz Brother of Sophie - Zsófia van Loon queen consort of Hungary; Mathilde van Loon; Graaf Dirk van Loon Horne Herlaer; Heer Otto van Loon Diest; Reinaud van Loon and 2 others
   
5. Title: Arnulf van Loon
   Publication: Name: https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-737772731-1-511854/arnulf-van-loon-in-myheritage-family-trees?fspid=G678-YRB;
   
6. Title: Arnulf van LOON Arnoul Ier
   Publication: Name: https://gw.geneanet.org/gilissen001?n=van+loon&oc=2&p=arnulf;