Reginard was bishop of Liège in the Low Countries from 1025 to 1037, and had the city's first stone bridge over the Meuse built, the Pont des Arches.
[1] His ecclesiastical career, however, began in Bonn, where he was appointed to a canonry by Heribert of Cologne, with whom he had studied at Gorze Abbey in the Duchy of Lorraine.
[1] According to the chroniclers of St Laurence's Abbey, Liège, he acquired the appointment through simony but repented and tendered his resignation to the Pope, who insisted that he retain the nomination.
[2] In 1037 he provided troops from Liège to support Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine's forces in their struggle against the invading Odo II, Count of Blois, culminating in the Battle of Bar-le-Duc.
[1] About a century after his death, a Vita Reginardi was composed by Renier, a monk of Saint Laurence's, which historians consider to have very little value as a source.