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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.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
In 1227 [his former wife] Ada Gerulfing I Countess Holland (age 39) died.
GrandFather: Louis Loon I Count Loon
Father: Gerard Count Loon
Great x 1 Grandfather: Folmar V Count Metz
GrandMother: Agnes Metz Countess 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