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- BIOGRAPHY
Albert II was the son of Albert I, comte de Namur, and Ermengarde de Lorraine. He was count of Namur from the death of his brother Robert II between 1018 and 1031. His brother was no longer mentioned as active after 1018, though his name appears in a charter in 1031.
In 1037 Albert participated in the coalition against Eudes II, comte de Blois, Chartres, Troyes et Champagne, who sought to create a kingdom between France and Germany. In 1046 he sided with Emperor Heinrich III in his campaign against Geoffroy 'with the Bears', count of Verdun, duke of Upper-Lorraine, and Baudouin V, Graaf van Vlaanderen.
In 1047 Albert rebuilt the church of Saint-Aubin de Namur and made it a collegiate church.
With his wife Regelindis de Lorraine, daughter of Gozelo I, duke of Upper-Lorraine, Margrave of Antwerp, he had two sons Albert III and Henri I, who would both have progeny.
The circumstances of his death about 1063 are not known, but we know the approximate year of his death from a charter of 1070, dated to the seventh year of the reign of his son Albert III.
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