Otó de Lovaina

Otto of Louvain (French: Otton de Louvain) was a Flemish nobleman who served as Count of Louvain from 1038 until his death around 1040.

Origins According to the Chronicon Sigeberti, preserved in the Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Tome 11, Otto was the son of Henry I, Count of Louvain.

Henry I, according to the Gesta Episcoporum Cameracensium, liber III, was the son of Lambert I.

Lambert I married Gerberga of Lorraine, who, according to the Genealogica comitum Buloniensium, was the daughter of Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine. Charles was married to Adelaide of Troyes, daughter of Robert of Vermandois.

Biography Very little information is available about Otto. The only source that mentions him is the Chronicon Sigeberti, preserved in the Recueil des historiens des Gaules et de la France. Tome 11, where he is identified as the son and successor of Henry I. having been killed by a man named Herman, who had been his prisoner.

The Chronicon Sigeberti further reports that Otto died suddenly and prematurely, and that he was succeeded by his paternal uncle Lambert II, called Balderic.