Hermann II, Count Palatine of Lotharingia

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).

Hermann II (born 1049; died Dalhem, 20 September 1085), Count Palatine of Lotharingia 1064–1085. He was count in the Ruhrgau and the Zulpichgau, as well as a count of Brabant.