Régnier III Comté de Hainault

  General Notes:

~Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 7th Edition, 155:19

Regnier, count of Hainaut, was born circa 920 and died in 973. He married Adele, who died in 961, the daughter of Lambert, Count of Louvain. (Moriarty, cit., 26, 50; Sailot, 102 says daughter of Hugh II, Count of Dagsbourg). ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Web Reference: Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands, Regnier III.
The Annales Hanoniæ name "Raginerus" as son of "Raginerus [filius Ragineri dicti Longi-colli]" [Iacobi de Guisia Annales Hanoniæ VIII.XII, MGH SS XXX Part 1, p. 114. ]. "Otto…rex" confirmed the possession of Kloster Süsteren by Prüm abbey by charter dated 1 Jun 949, signed by "Cuonradus dux, Herimannus dux, Hezzo comes, Godefridus comes, Rudolfus comes, Reginherus comes". He succeeded his father as Comte de Hainaut, although the date he took control of the county is not known. "Ragineri comitis…" signed the charter dated to [936/57] under which "Adhelardus et conjux mea Fulcuera" donated a serf to the abbey of Saint-Ghislain [Duvivier, C. (1903) Actes et documents anciens interéssant la Belgique, Nouvelle série (Brussels), 3, p. 11].