The Delahorne/Curtis Family History

of Namur · ◉ direct ancestor

Nobility

♂Albert of Namur

Dates not yet known.

Albert of Namur was the twenty-seventh great-grandfather of Nancy Jane Blanchard (1929–2006), through his daughter Ide of Namur.

He is said to have been Albert III, Count of Namur, in what is now Belgium. Ide became the first wife of Godfrey I, Duke of Lower Lorraine and Count of Louvain, who was called Godfrey the Bearded. Their daughter Adelise of Louvain, whose descendants run down through the Eu, Tony and Botetourt families into England, carried the line toward the Washburns and the Blanchards. No dates, wife or other children are known for Albert.

Notes

Source and grade

The Complete Peerage (G. E. Cokayne, 2nd edition, vol. I, Arundel, p. 235) names “Ide, da. of Albert III, Count of Namur” as first wife of Godfrey, Duke of Lower Lorraine, and the first edition (vol. VI, p. 228) says the same of Ide. This is a compiled peerage reference only; no charter or record naming Albert himself is known, so his title and his fatherhood of Ide rest on the peerage alone.

What is not known

No birth, death, wife or other children are known for Albert.

Family time line

◉ Albert of Namur, Count of Namur
Spouse not yet known
No marriage recorded
◉ Ide of Namur

Recorded events

EventWhenWhereEvidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read
from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so
not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet
Title (Nobility)
Count of Namur (Complete Peerage, ARUNDEL pp.233-235 - William d'Aubigny and Queen Adeliz)
 from a compiled source

Sources

  • Cokayne, G. E., The Complete Peerage, new ed., ed. Vicary Gibbs, vol. 1, Ab-Adam to Basing (London: St Catherine Press, 1910) — Title (Nobility), about this person, family

Line of descent

Descendants

  1. Ide of Namur
    1. Adelise of Louvain –1151
      1. Matilda Aubigny 1142–1215
        1. Robert Strathearn 1176–1244
        2. Ethna Strathearn 1188–
      2. Alice d'Aubigny
        1. Henry of Eu –1183