{{short description|Merovingian noble (c.513–519 AD)}} {{Unreliable sources|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox nobility | | name = Walbert II the Younger | birth_name =Walbert II | title = {{plainlist| * Count of the Ardennes * Count of Hainaut }} | image = | issue = | noble family = | birth_date = {{c.}} 513-519 | birth_place = Francia | death_date = {{c.}} 575 | death_place = Austrasia, Francia | father Walbert I | mother =Lucille of Pannonia | spouse = Clotilde | predecessor = Walbert I | successor = Walbert III }} '''Walbert II''' (born {{circa}} 513-519 AD) also called '''the Younger''', was a patrician, Roman senator, and Merovingian Count of Haynau and of the Ardennes.
==Biography== Walbert II "the Younger" was born in Francia during the Middle Ages.
He was a direct descendant of Auberon (or Albéron), Lord of the Ardennes, son of Clodebald de Francie and grandson of Clodion the Hairy.<ref name="Gambier, A. (1789)">Gambier, A. (1789). Essai historique sur la rentrée des biens tant à l'église qu'à la nation, avec des réflexions sur la nature de ces biens. (n.p.): (n.p.).</ref> His grandmother, Argotte, daughter of Theodoric the Great, was from the Ostrogoths.<ref name="Vinchant, F. (1648)"/> His father, Walbert I, was the only one of Clodion the Hairy's lineage not killed by Clovis I. Sent to Rome as a child, his father married Lucille of Pannonia, sister (or daughter) of Emperor Zeno. He and his brother Ansbert both became patricians and were appointed as Gallo-Roman senators.<ref name="Vinchant, F. (1648)"/><ref>MASSON, F. X. (1861). Annales Ardennaises, ou histoire des lieux qui forment le département des Ardennes et des contrées voisines. tom. 1. (n.p.): Lelaurin.</ref>
He came into possession of the lordships that his father had in the pagi of the Arduensis and of Hainoensis (now Hainaut Province).<ref name="Vinchant, F. (1648)">Vinchant, F. (1648). Annales de la province et comté d'Haynau où l'on voit la suitte des comtes depuis leur commencement. (n.p.): De L'Imprimerie de Jean Havart.</ref> His brother Ansbert the Senator, first acquired the marquisate of the Holy Empire on the Escaut and later the Duchy of Mosel, a region spanning from Metz to Cologne and Luxembourg.<ref name="Neyen, A. (1860)"/>
Walbert II married Clotilde (originally d'Ostrogothie), daughter of Athalaric, King of the Visigoths.<ref name="Gambier, A. (1789)"/><ref>Baring-Gould, S. (1898). The Lives of the Saints. United Kingdom: J. C. Nimmo.</ref> Among their children were Walbert III, Vraye, and Brunulf I, Count of Cambrésis, father to Brunulf II.<ref name="Neyen, A. (1860)"/> His daughter Vraye, married Mummolin (or Mummolinus), patrician and descendant of the Dukes of Tongeren, who became chief general under King Sigebert.<ref name="Gambier, A. (1789)"/><ref name="Neyen, A. (1860)"/>
===Succession=== His son, Brunulf I, inherited the title of Count of Cambrésis in addition to the Palace of Haucourt-en-Cambrésis.<ref name="Le Carpentier, J (1668)">Le Carpentier, J. (1668). Histoire genealogique de la noblesse des Païs-Bas, ou Histoire de Cambray, et du Cambresis,: contenant ce qui s'y est passé sous les empereurs, & les rois de France & d'Espagne; enrichie des genealogies, eloges, & armes des comtes, ducs, evesques ... : le tout divisé en IV. parties. Netherlands: chez l'Autheur.</ref> The eldest of his sons, Walbert III, had as his wife Amalberge of Landen, daughter of Carloman by whom he had four children including two sons: Walbert IV and another Brunulphe I, Count of the Adrennes.<ref name="Neyen, A. (1860)"/> Walbert II's grandson Walbert IV married Saint Bertille, daughter of the King of Thuringia by whom he had two daughters: Saint Waltrude, Princess of Ardennes and Countess of Hainaut, who was married to Madelgaire, and Saint Aldegonde, first abbess of Maubeuge.<ref name="Neyen, A. (1860)">Neyen, A. (1860). Biographie luxembourgeoise. Histoire des hommes distingues originaires de ce pays, considere a l'epoque de sa plus grande etendue (etc.). Luxembourg: Bruck.</ref> His son Brunulf was the father of Saint Hydulphe, who inherited the Principality of Ardennes from his cousin, Waltrude, and Hainaut from his wife, Saint Aye, but died without children.<ref>Neyen, A. (1860). Biographie Luxembourgeoise: histoire des hommes distingués originaires de ce pays considéré à l'époque de sa plus grande étendue, ou qui se sont rendus remarquables pendant le séjour qu'ils y ont fait. Luxembourg: Bruck.</ref>
==Death== Count Walbert II of the Ardennes died around {{c.}} 575 in Austrasia, Francia.<ref name="Neyen, A. (1860)"/>
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