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 228 DATE OF EMPEROR HENRY VIPS BIRTH April concerning the word domicellits : ' Praesertim hocce titulo donati militum filii nondum militari seu equestri cingulo accincti.' M, van Werveke says he prefers to consider that the word shows that he was still under guardianship. This distinction, however, does not appear to be at all significant in Henry's case. He gives references to a number of documents in which the title damoisel is used by Henry himself, and by others in addressing him.^ Further he goes on to point out that certain acts of this time are drawn up in Beatrice's name, Henry only appearing in a secondary position.^ It is obvious that these two forms, both used in the deeds of this period, make a very strong case for the existence of a regency. While acknowledging that there are documents of this period in which Henry appears as count of Luxemburg without the title damoisel, and in which he acts by himself, M. van Werveke does not really face the difficulty. He quotes, it is true, a list of documents given by Herr Brosien,' but he dismisses them lightly, saying either that they were of little importance, or that Henry was acting in conjunction with another member of the council of regency. This issue, however, cannot be evaded as easily as that, for besides the documents quoted by Herr Brosien, and summarily dismissed by M. van Werveke, there are many others of the same type.* Moreover, many of them, as for example the treaty of alliance in 1292,^ are of considerable importance. This, then, has proved a very tortuous path upon which M. van Werveke has set forth. It is wellnigh impossible to decide ments quoted by M. van Werveke, an example of its use can also be found in an agree- ment between Henry and the magistrates of the town of Luxemburg in March 1289-90 : Bertholet, v, Preuves justificatives, p. 285 ; Wurth-Paquet, no. 26. It is used in addressing him in Wurth-Paquet, nos. 19, 22, 25, 39, 69, 72. by M. van Werveke there are also examples of this association of Beatrice and Henry in (a) the record of a purchase made by the chapter of Saint- Jean at Liege in June 1290 : ' Beatris comtesse de Lucemborch et de la Roche et Hanris ses fius damoiseas et cuens meismes lieus ' (original in the state archives at Li^ge, Wiirth-Paquet, no. 72) ; (fc) a treaty with the citizens of the town of Luxemburg in July 1289 : ' Nous Beatrix. . . contesse de Lucembourch et de la Roche, et nous Henris ses aisneis filz, damisiaus de Lucembourch ' (original in the town archives at Luxemburg : Wiirth-Paquet, no. 42). » P. 153, n. 1. nobilivironostro consanguineo predilecto et domino Henrico comite Lucellenburgensi ' (original in the government archives at Luxemburg, Wiirth-Paquet, no. 52). {h) Henry acts as a surety for a money transaction between Henry de Ligny and Isabella, countess of Flanders, in July 1291 (De ReifFenberg, Monuments pour servir d fhistoire de Namur etc. (Brussels, 1844), i. 37, 38). (c) In a treaty of alliance between Count Guy, John of Namur, &c., and Henry of Luxemburg in 1292 : ' et nous Henris, coens de Luxembourch ' {ibid. i. 39). (d) In an exchange of goods between Henry and the convent of Marienthal in February 1290 : ' Ego Henricus, comes Luccemburgensis,. .* (Carlvlaire de Marienthal, ed. M. van Werveke (Luxemburg, 1885), p. 186). ' See above, n. 4.
 * e. g. it is used hy him in Wtirth-Paquet's Table, nos. 12, 34. Besides the docu-
 * e. g. this occurs in Wurth-Paquet, nos. 40, 82. Besides these documents quoted
 * e. g. : (o) In a deed issued by Waleran, Count of Jiilich, in October 1289, ' a