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Biography of Louis II Count Loon -1218

Louis II Count Loon was born to Gerard Count Loon and Adelaide Guelders.

On 2nd November 1191 [his father] Gerard Count Loon was killed in Acre [Map]. His son Louis succeeded II Count Loon.

In 1203 Louis II Count Loon and Ada Gerulfing I Countess Holland (age 15) were married. She by marriage Countess Holland. She the daughter of Dirk Gerulfing VII Count Holland and Adelaide Cleves Countess Holland.

From 1207 to 1214 [his brother] Arnold III Count Loon was held hostage in England in order to guarantee the obligations of his brother Louis II and his wife [his wife] Ada of Holland (age 19) to give up the county of Holland.

Before 2nd August 1218 Louis II Count Loon was fatally poisoned. His brother [his brother] Henry (age 82) succeeded Count Loon.

On 2nd August 1218 [his brother] Henry Count Loon (age 82) was fatally poisoned a few days after his brother had been. His brother [his brother] Arnold succeeded III Count Loon.

In 1227 [his former wife] Ada Gerulfing I Countess Holland (age 39) died.

Ancestors of Louis II Count Loon -1218

GrandFather: Louis Loon I Count Loon

Father: Gerard Count Loon

Great x 1 Grandfather: Folmar V Count Metz

GrandMother: Agnes Metz Countess Loon

Louis II Count Loon

Great x 2 Grandfather: Gerald I Count Guelders

Great x 1 Grandfather: Gerard II Count Guelders

GrandFather: Henry I Count Guelders

Great x 2 Grandfather: Otto Zutphen 2nd Count Zutphen

Great x 1 Grandmother: Ermgard Zutphen Countess Guelders

Mother: Adelaide Guelders

Great x 1 Grandfather: Louis Arnstein 3rd Count Arnstein

GrandMother: Agnes Arnstein Countess Guelders