Philipp Archbishop of Köln confirmed rights of the abbey of Rolduc, at the request of "Dominus Henricus de Lymburg filius Domini Henrici et nepos ducis Walerami…quam uxor eius Domina Sophia et filii eius Henricus et Waleramnus" by charter dated 1178. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "Walerannus de Ardenna dux" as son of "senior Henricus de Lemborc". "Henricus de Lemborc" founded the abbey of "Vallis Sancti Lamberti", with the consent of "filiorum meorum Henrici, Waleranni, Frederici et Gerardi", by charter dated 1196. The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines names "duce de Lemborch…Henrico et filio eius Wallerano" when recording that they were present at the coronation of "Otto comes Pictavorum" as King of Germany in 1198. "Henricus filius Henrici filii Walerami ducis de Limburg" donated property to Rolduc [Rode] abbey, with the consent of "filiis meis Henrico, Waleramo, Friderico, Gerardo, ac filiabus meis Jutta de Valkenburg et Mathilde", in the presence of "domino Goswino de Valkenburg genero nostro", by charter dated 1202.
Seigneur de Montjoie [Monschau]. He undertook campaigns against Namur in 1214 and 1223 in an attempt to recover the county in the name of his second wife. A charter dated 1218 records an agreement between "Waleranum comitem Luceburgensem" and the church of St Paul, Metz, with the consent of "uxoris suæ L. dominæ Luxemburgo et Walerani junioris filii comitis et Elisabethæ uxoris eiusdem, sororis domini M. tunc temporis comitis Barrensis".
He succeeded his father in 1221 as WALRAM III Duke of Limburg. He joined the crusade preached by Pope Honorius III in 1224, dying on the return journey in Cremona. The Continuatio of the Chronicon Lamberti Parvi records the death in 1225 of "Gerardus de Horne et frater eius Galerannus dux Ardennius".
The Chronicle of Alberic de Trois-Fontaines records the death in 1226 of "Walerannus de Ardenna dux" and his burial with his father "in ecclesia de Rode ordinis sancti Augustini". The Cæsarii Heisterbacensis Vita sancti Engelberti Archiepiscopi Coloniensis records that "dux Walramus" died five months after his brother Gérard. 1
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