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130: 25: 333:, Godefrey and his family refused to stop using the title, and kept possession of Antwerp. The ensuing conflict between the families led to the eventual abolishment of the Duchy, and the two families came to be known as the Dukes of Brabant and Limbourg respectively. 244:, and by 1003 he was being described as a Count of Louvain. His county, with its original capital of Louvain built upon the Dyle river, between the old 311: 276: 97: 69: 76: 46: 116: 54: 83: 241: 50: 65: 464: 326: 222: 178: 468: 453: 388: 373: 268: 457: 442: 424: 413: 395: 377: 360: 343: 318: 299: 233: 519: 499: 446: 428: 417: 399: 384: 237: 514: 504: 356: 206: 198: 509: 35: 435: 39: 367: 322: 90: 284: 476: 8: 330: 218: 260:, and this became a source of long-running conflict with the prince-bishops of Liège. 303: 288: 264: 249: 350: 245: 214: 186: 142: 480: 151: 201:, possibly his son, was the most powerful noble in the now kingless kingdom of 166: 161: 436:
Counts of Louvain and Brussels, Landgraves of Brabant, Dukes of Lower-Lorraine
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fell out of favour. Although the title was later given back to the lords of
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From 1183 onwards, the titles of Count of Louvain, Count of Brussels and
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In the early 12th century, Henry III was succeeded by his brother
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which from the late 10th century ruled over the estates of
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Counts of Louvain and Brussels, Landgraves of Brabant
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House of Reginar
Louvain
French
Dutch
Lower Lorraine
Gilbert, Count of the Maasgau
West Frankish
Charles the Bald
Carolingian
Lothair I
Reginar I "longneck"
Lotharingia
Gilbert
East Frankish
Henry the Fowler
Gerberga of Saxony

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