Brunengeruz

The name is sometimes interpreted with "corrected" forms such as Brunenrode, because the Latin spellings are believed to derive from Brūninga roþa, meaning a forest clearing (typically rode or rooi in modern Dutch placenames) belonging to the kinsfolk of Bruno.

[4] The county came to be claimed by the counts of Leuven and over several generations they achieved control of most of the area, excluding Hoegaarden, Beauvechain, Tourinnes-la-Grosse and Chaumont.

[5] By 1155, if not earlier, Hoegaarden came to be seen as the chief town of the leftover "county", which remained under the bishops.

[6] The 13th-century writer Giles of Orval in his Gesta episcoporum Leodiensium (II.44) in the entry for 1099, defined the boundaries of the 11th-century version of the disputed county.

Among the places named was Brunengeruz itself, which was in or near modern Roux-Miroir [nl; fr] (medieval Rode).