Henry II, Lord of Ligny

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Henry II, Lord of Ligny

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Coat of Arms of Henry II.
Lord of Ligny La Roche
Reign 1288–1303
Predecessor Waleran I
Successor Waleran II
Died 1303
House Luxembourg
Father Waleran I of Luxembourg, Lord of Ligny
Mother Joan of Beauvoir

Henry II of Luxembourg (died 1303) was Lord of Ligny from 1288 to his death in 1303. He inherited the Lordship of Ligny from his father in 1288 following his death in the Battle of Worringen. Following Henry's death, his brother Waleran II succeeded him.

Ligny-en-Barrois Commune in Grand Est, France

Ligny-en-Barrois is a commune in the Meuse department in Grand Est in north-eastern France.

The Lords of Ligny, later Counts of Ligny, ruled the fief of Ligny-en-Barrois during the Middle Ages. In 1240, the seigniory of Ligny-en-Barrois was given by Henry II of Bar as the dowry of his daughter Marguerite, who married Henry V of Luxemburg. Henry bestowed it upon his younger son Waleran in 1281, who was killed at the Battle of Worringen in 1288. In 1364, it was elevated to a county by Guy I, and remained in the Luxembourg family and their descendants until 1719, when it was sold to the Duke of Lorraine by Charles-Francis.

Battle of Worringen middle ages battle

The Battle of Worringen was fought on 5 June 1288 near the town of Worringen, which is now the northernmost borough of Cologne. It was the decisive battle of the War of the Limburg Succession, fought for the possession of the Duchy of Limburg between Archbishop Siegfried II of Cologne and Duke John I of Brabant, and one of the largest battles in Europe in the Middle Ages.


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