Perwez

Who he is

Name

William of Leuven (Guillaume de Perwez)

Title

Lord of Perwez

Since

Not pinned

Born

In the 1180s (son of Godfrey III's second marriage)

Family

Son of Godfrey III of Leuven and Imagina of Loon (daughter of Count Louis I of Loon); half-brother of Duke Henry I; first cousin of Louis II of Loon.

Confidence

medium

General accounts of the house of Leuven; not checked against a 1200 charter.

Overlord

The duke of Brabant

What it holds

• Perwez and its lands in the Roman pays (other lands not pinned)

How it was acquired

Endowment from his father's or brother's lands (not dated).

Allies and rivals

His half-brother the duke; his Loon cousins.

How things stand that morning

Holds Perwez under the duke; Otto's side with Brabant.

Wealth

Hesbaye farmland.

Where the sources disagree

• The France map's Namur polygon covers Perwez; it is Brabant's.

Evidence: Parentage is standard; his holdings in 1200 are not documented here.

On the map: The modern commune stands for the lordship.

Primary sources for Brabant

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Annals of Reiner of Saint James, Liège, Reiner of Liège (1197 to 1230, kept year by year). Contemporary annals kept inside Liège. Read online
• Royal Chronicle of Cologne (in stages from about 1175 to about 1250; the section on 1198 to 1220 written soon after the events). The fullest German narrative of the throne war from the Welf and Cologne side. Read online
• Chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (about 1227 to 1241, at the Cistercian abbey of Trois-Fontaines in Champagne). The widest net of any Latin chronicle for 1200, compiled from dozens of sources, many now lost. Read online
• Chronicle of Hainaut, Gislebert of Mons (about 1195 to 1196). Ends in 1195, so it has no 1200 entries, but it is the indispensable background for Flanders and Hainaut: the career of Count Baldwin V of Hainaut (VIII of Flanders), his union of the two counties, the settlement with Philip over Artois, the rights, castles, fiefs and vassals of Hainaut listed by a man who ran its chancery, and the youth of Baldwin IX, who held both counties in 1200. Read online
• Dialogue on Miracles, Caesarius of Heisterbach (about 1219 to 1223). Not a chronicle but a Cistercian's book of exempla, full of stories about Cologne, the Rhineland and the Low Countries around 1200: the throne war, usurers, heretics, crusade preachers, knights and townsmen, monks and recruits at Heisterbach, founded in 1189. Read online