Born before [location unknown]
Ancestors 
Brother of
Luitgard Dagsburg [half], Albert (Dagsburg) von Dagsburg [half] and Gertrud (Dagsburg) von Dagsburg [half]
Husband of
Margaret (Limburg) Brabant
— married
1155 in Brabant, Brabant, Belgium
Husband of
Imaine (Loon) van Leuven
— married
1172 [location unknown]
Descendants 
Father of
Henri (Brabant) de Brabant, Guillaume (Leuven) of Brabant and Godfrey (Louvain) de Lovaine
Died
after age 48
in Louvain, France
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Biography
Godfrey III Lorraine was a member of the aristocracy in Europe.
Godfrey became duke of Lorraine at about 1 years old. He took government in his own hands at about 1155. He expanded his realm and subjected competitors like the Grimbergen family.
He was installed in 1142 as Duke of Lower Lotharingia in succession to his father. The Oude Kronik van Brabant records that "Henricus comes Lymburgensis" attempted to deprive "Godefridi junioris" of his duchy, which "Henricus avus suus et Walramus pater suus" held previously, in the second year of his reign. Duke of Louvain 1147. Comte de Brabant 1153. The Annales Blandinienses record "Godefridus dux Lovaniensis" taking part with Philippe Count of Flanders and his brother Mathieu Comte de Boulogne in a military expedition against Holland in 1166. Vogt von Tengerloo 1175. "Godefridus dux Lotharingie" returned property to Aachen St Maria, in the presence of "filiis meis Heinrico milite, Alberto clerico", by charter dated Sep 1185.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Charles Cawley. GODEFROI de Louvain, entry in "Medieval Lands" database (accessed 22/03/2015).
- Cawley, Charles. "Medieval Lands": A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families © by Charles Cawley, hosted by Foundation for Medieval Genealogy (FMG). See also WikiTree's source page for MedLands.
- Rubincam, Milton. The House of Brabant, Ancestry of Philippa of Hainault, Wife of Edward III, The American Genealogist (1949) Vol. 25, Page 229
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Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Liz (Noland) Shifflett
Cawley shows him as VII
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