| Name |
Balduin (Baldwin) av Flandern |
| Suffix |
"Balduin 2" |
| Nickname |
"den skallede" |
| Birth |
Between 0864 and 0866 |
Gent, Øst-Flandern, Flandern, Belgia  [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Abt 0879 |
Flandern, Belgia [1, 2, 3] |
| Greve av Flandern. |
- Baldwin 2, nicknamed Calvus (the Bald) was the second Count of Flanders and ruled from 879 to 918.
He was the son of Baldwin 1 of Flanders and Judith, a daughter of Charles the Bald and as such a descendant of Charlemagne.
In 884 Baldwin married Ælfthryth (Ælfthryth, Elftrude, Elfrida), a daughter of King Alfred the Great of England. The immediate goal of this Anglo-Flemish alliance was to help Baldwin control the lower Canche River valley.
The early years of Baldwin's rule (879-885) were marked by a series of devastating Viking raids into Flanders where little north of the Somme was left untouched.
By 883 he was forced northward to the flat marshes of the pagus flandransis which became the territory most closely associated with the counts of Flanders from that time on.
Baldwin constructed a series of wooden fortifications at Saint-Omer, Bruges, Ghent, and Kortrijk and seized those lands abandoned by royal and ecclesiastical officials. Many of these same citadels later formed castellanies housing government, militia and local courts.
In 888 the west Frankish king Charles the Fat was deposed and there were several candidates for his replacement.
As he was a grandson of Charles the Bald, Holy Roman Emperor and King of West Francia, Baldwin could have, but did not, compete for the crown of western Francia.
Instead Baldwin joined others in trying to convince the East Frankish king Arnulf to also take the west Frankish crown, but Arnulf declined. The Robertine Odo, Count of Paris, was elected king but Odo would not support Baldwin's attempts at gaining control of the abbey of St. Bertin the two fell out and while Odo attacked Baldwin at Bruges he could not prevail.
Baldwin continued his expansion to the south and gained control of Artois including the important abbey of St. Vaast. When the abbey came under the jurisdiction of Archbishop Fulk of Reims in 900 Baldwin had him assassinated. When his attempts to expand further into the upper Somme River valley were opposed by Herbert 1, Count of Vermandois Baldwin likewise had him assassinated.
He died 10 September 918 at Blandijnberg (near Ghent) and was succeeded by his eldest son Arnulf 1 of Flanders.
His younger son Adalulf was (the first) count of Boulogne. [1, 2, 3]
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| Death |
10 Sep 0918 |
Gent, Øst-Flandern, Flandern, Belgia [1] |
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| Person ID |
I4534 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
23 Aug 2016 |
| Father |
Balduin (Baldwin) av Flandern, "Balduin 1", b. Abt 0837, Gent, Øst-Flandern, Flandern, Belgia d. Abt 0879, Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, Frankrike (Age 42 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Mother |
Judith av Flandern, b. Between 0843 and 0844, Roches, Frankrike d. Abt 0870, Roches, Frankrike (Age 27 years) |
| Relationship |
Birth |
| Marriage |
13 Dec 862 |
Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, Frankrike [1] |
- Hun giftet seg med Balduin 1 av Flandern "Baldwin Jernarmen" (4561) cirka 863 på Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, Frankrike. Judith hadde først vært gift med den engelske konge Ethelwulf som døde i 858, og deretter med dennes sønn fra første ekteskap, Ethelbald, død i 860.
Baldiun bortførte henne i forståelse med hennes bror Ludvig "den stammende" og hennes fetter, kong Lothar 2. De dro til Roma og ba pave Nicolaus 1 om hjelp og fikk etter pavens forbønn hennes fars tilgivelse.
Following her second husband king Æthelbald's death, Judith sold her properties in Wessex and returned to France.
According to the Chronicle of St. Bertin, her father sent her to the Monastery at Senlis, where she would remain under his protection and royal episcopal guardianship, with all the honour due to a queen, until such time as, if she could not remain chaste, she might marry in the way the apostle said, that is suitably and legally.
Around Christmas 861, Judith eloped with Baldwin, later Count of Flanders. The two were likely married at the monastery of Senlis at this time. The record of the incident in the Annals depicts Judith not as the passive victim of bride theft but as an active agent, eloping at the instigation of Baldwin and apparently with her brother Louis the Stammerer's consent.
Unsurprisingly, Judith's father was furious and ordered his bishops to excommunicate the couple. They later fled to the court of Judith's cousin Lothair 2 of Lotharingia for protection, before going to Pope Nicholas 1 to plead their case.
The Pope took diplomatic action and asked Judith's father to accept the union as legally binding and welcome the young couple into his circle, which ultimately he did. The couple then returned to France and were officially married at Auxerre in 863.
[1]
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| Family ID |
F2499 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Elftrude (Aefthryth) av Wessex, b. Abt 0871, Wessex, England d. 07 Jun 0929, Gent, Øst-Flandern, Flandern, Belgia (Age 58 years) |
| Marriage |
Abt 0884 |
Flandern, Belgia [1] |
- In 884 Baldwin married Ælfthryth (Ælfthryth, Elftrude, Elfrida), a daughter of King Alfred the Great of England. The immediate goal of this Anglo-Flemish alliance was to help Baldwin control the lower Canche River valley.
They had the following children:
1. Arnulf 1 of Flanders (c. 890–964), married Adela of Vermandois.
2. Adalulf (c. 890–933), Count of Boulogne.
3. Ealswid.
4. Ermentrud. [1]
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| Children |
| + | 1. Arnulv (Arnold) av Flandern, "Arnulv 1", b. Abt 0890, Gent, Øst-Flandern, Flandern, Belgia d. 27 Mar 0964, Gent, Øst-Flandern, Flandern, Belgia (Age 74 years) [Birth] |
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| Family ID |
F2480 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
3 Apr 2016 |
0866 - 0918 (54 years)