Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia

Hermann II (born 1049; died Dalhem, 20 September 1085), Count Palatine of Lotharingia 1064–1085.

[2] However, if that is the case, his maternal uncle was Pope Stephen IX.

In 1080 he married Adelaide of Weimar-Orlamünde († 1100), widow of Adalbert II, Count of Ballenstedt.

She was a daughter of Otto of Orlamünde, count of Weimar and margrave of Meissen in Thuringia, and Adela of Brabant.

He was killed in a duel with Albert III, Count of Namur, near his castle in Dalhem.

The imperial crowning of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (left) but “beiniço·itu (thread/ line of descendence) according to script (“s” seems to have been added later) by Antipope Clement III (middle-right). Between them stands the Imperial Swordbearer , Count Palatine Hermann II of Lotharingia. Picture in the chronicle of Otto of Freising , Codex Jenensis Bose q.6 (1157).