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Toi qui cherches, apprends la patience car seul se que l'on ades difficultés à trouver apporte de réellessatisfactions. Le travail des autres est parfois utile mais jamaissource de convictions car tout ce qui a été ne seraplus. Tirer le réel de l'apparent est ardu car la roue quitourne a parfois des jambes de bois. Antoine de Lavoisier disait :« Rien ne se perd, rien ne secrée, tout se transforme ». Puisque rienne se perd, cherchons. puisque rien ne se crée acceptons cequi fut. Puisque tout se transforme, faisons la lumière surce qui a été caché car aujourd'hui est laconséquence de ce qui fut hier.


  • Born about 1040
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Geldern, Looz, and Public Succession
By Donald C. Jackman

p. 7
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In 1078 and 1079 a Countess Ermengarde with substantial property in Looz and the Looz sphere made donations of land to churches in Liège. In the first deed she reserved 10 mansi at Bree to a Count Gerhard.14 and in the second she designatd a Count Dietrich as advocate for estates at Bree and Gruitrode donated to the cathedral church of St. Lambert.15 It is reasonable to suppose that Ermengarde was the widow of the very recently deceased Count Immo of Looz.16 In the second of these items Arnold I of Looz makes his first appearance in the historical record.
Vanderkindere disputed Ermengarde's identity as Immo's wife. A gratuitous and suspect interpolation in Annalista Saxo is thought to imply that Immo's wife was a certain Swanehilde whose son became burgrave of Mainz and count of Rieneck.17

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