Born ‎ 962, died ‎ UNKNOWN‎

Born ‎ 950, died ‎ 1013‎, 62 or 63 years
Rainer or Reginar IV, Count of Hainault, succeeded to his father's titleafter a long struggle to assert his claims. When Rainer III was sent intoexile Duke Bruno gave Hainault to Garmer and Renaud, and after Otto diedRainer and his brother Lambert attacked the two counts and slew them inbattle. Whereupon Otto II took Hainault away from them, but Rainer andLambert reappeared with new forces, but were defeated in 976, and it wasnot until much later that Rainer established himself as first proprietaryCount of Hainault, and ruled in peace after establishing himself at Mons,capital of Hainault. He married Hedwige, daughter of Hugh Capet, King ofFrance, and had Rainer V, and a daughter Beatrix married Count Rouci.