Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 0987, Flandern, Belgia; Greve av Flandern.

Notes:

Birth:
Luxemburg?

Occupation:
På 1000-tallet utvidet grevene Balduin 4 og Balduin 5 riket med fem land øst for Schelde, som opprinnelig hadde tilhørt det midtfrankiske riket, men som i 870 var blitt innlemmet i det østfrankiske riket (det tysk-romerske riket). Grevskapet bestod da av Kron-Flandern, len under den franske konge, og Riks-Flandern, len under den tyske keiser. På denne måten ble greven vasall under to lensherrer, noe som gav ham større selvstendighet og mulighet til å bygge grevskapet ut til en sterk politisk enhet.

Balduin 4 bemektiget seg Valenciennes og kom derved i strid med keiser Konrad 2 av Tyskland. Han var imidlertid heldig i kampene og ervervet seg endelbesittelser på høyre Seine-bredd i nærheten av Gent samt de Zeelandske øyer.
Etter den tid skiller man mellom det egentlige Flandern, Kronflandern som var et fransk len og Riksflandern som grevene hadde til len av det tyske rike.

Balduin var første gang gift ca. 1012 med Otgiva av Luxemburg (995-1031). Baldvin 5 var hans sønn i ekteskapet med Otgiva.

Han var annen gang gift etter 1031 med Eleonore(?) av Normandie, født ca. 1010. Hun var datter til Richard 2 - den Gode - av Normandie som døde 23.august 1027 og Judith av Bretagne (ca. 982-1017).

Hans datter, Judith av Flandern, skal være født i 1028 eller 1033, hvilket gjør at det er usikkert hvem som var hennes mor.

Kilder bl.a.:
Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.
Erich Brandenburg: Die Nachkommen Karls des Grossen, Leipzig 1935.
Mogens Bugge: Våre forfedre, nr. 838.
Bent og Vidar Billing Hansen: Rosensverdslektens forfedre.


Died:
Buried in Chapel of St.Laurent, Abbey of St Pierre de Grand.

Balduin married Otgiva (Ogiva) av Luxemburg about 1012. Otgiva (daughter of Friedrich av Luxemburg, "Friedrich 1" and Ermentrude av Wettergau, "av Gleiberg") was born about 0995 in Luxemburg; died on 21 Feb 1030 in Luxemburg. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
21.februar 1030?

1. Balduin (Baldwin) av Flandern, "Balduin 5" was born about 1013 in Flandern, Belgia; died on 01 Sep 1067 in Normandie, Frankrike.

Balduin married Eleonore av Normandie after 1031 in Flandern, Belgia. Eleonore (daughter of Richard av Normandie, "Richard 2" and Judith av Bretagne) was born about 1010 in Normandie, Frankrike. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Judith av Flandern was born about 1033 in Flandern, Belgia; died on 05 Mar 1094 in England.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 0965, Flandern, Belgia; Greve av Flandern.

Notes:

Occupation:
Arnulf 2 of Flanders was Count of Flanders from 965 until his death.
He was the son of Baldwin 3 of Flanders and Mathilde Billung of Saxony, daughter of Herman, Duke of Saxony.

His father Baldwin 3 died in 962, when Arnulf was just an infant, while Arnulf's grandfather, Arnulf 1, was still alive. When Arnulf 1 died three years later (965), the regency was held by his kinsman Baldwin Balso, who died in 973.

By the time Arnulf attained his majority in 976, Flanders had lost some of the southern territory acquired by Arnulf 1. The latter had given some parts of Picardy to King Lothar of France to help assure his grandson's succession, and gave Boulogne as a fief to another relative.
Then early in Arnulf's minority Lothar had taken Ponthieu and given it to Hugh Capet, and the first counts of Guînes had established themselves.

In 968 he married Rozala of Lombardy, daughter of Berengar 2 of Italy, and had two children:

1. Baldwin 4 (980–1035), who succeeded his father. He married twice and fathered Baldwin 5, Count of Flanders.

2. Mathilde, who died before 995.

Arnulf died on 30 March, 987 at age 26. Shortly after Arnulf's death his widow married Robert 2, King of France as his first wife.

Arnulv married Susanna av Italia about 0968 in Flandern, Belgia. Susanna (daughter of Berenger av Italia, "Berenger 2" and Willa av Burgund, "av Arles") was born after 0930. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 0958, Flandern, Belgia; Greve av Flandern.

Notes:

Occupation:
Baldwin 3 The Young of Flanders was Count of Flanders, who briefly ruled the County of Flanders (an area that is now northwestern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands), together with his father Arnulf 1 (c.890–965).

Baldwin 3 was born c.940, as the son of Arnulf 1, Count of Flanders and his second wife, Adele of Vermandois (c.915–969), daughter of Herbert 2, Count of Vermandois.

His father, Arnulf 1 had made Baldwin co-ruler in 958, but Baldwin died before his father and was succeeded by his infant son Arnulf 2, with Arnulf 1 acting as regent until his own death. Then Baldwin Balso continued as the regent for the child.

During his short rule, Baldwin was responsible for establishing the wool manufacturing industry at Ghent and markets at other towns in Flanders.

Baldwin 3 died on 1 January 962. After Baldwin's death, Arnulf 1 arranged for King Lothair of France to become the guardian of Baldwin's son Arnulf 2.

Balduin married Mathilde (Mathildis/Maud) av Sachsen about 0960. Mathilde (daughter of Herman av Sachsen, "Herman 5" and Hildegard (Hildeshuith) av Westerbourg) was born about 0942 in Lüneburg, Niedersachsen, Tyskland; died on 25 May 1008. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Shortly before 961 Baldwin married Mathilde of Saxony.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Bef 0966, Italia; Konge.

Berenger married Willa av Burgund, "av Arles" after 0930. Willa (daughter of Rudolph av Burgund, "Rudolph 1") was born about 0906 in Bourgogne, Frankrike. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 0918, Flandern, Belgia; Greve av Flandern.

Notes:

Occupation:
Arnulv den gamle, med tilnavnet den store også, var greve av Flandern 918-958 og 962-965. Hans lange regjeringstid var avbrutt i tre år da sønnen, Balduin 3 regjerte.

Grevskapet Flandern utvidet Arnulf 1 på 900-tallet til sør for elven Somme.

Arnulf of Flanders, called the Great, was the third Count of Flanders, who ruled the County of Flanders, an area that is now northwestern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands.

Arnulf was the son of count Baldwin 2 of Flanders and Ælfthryth of Wessex, daughter of Alfred the Great. Through his mother he was a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon kings of England, and through his father, a descendant of Charlemagne. Presumably Arnulf was named after Saint Arnulf of Metz, a progenitor of the Carolingian dynasty.

At the death of their father in 918, Arnulf became Count of Flanders while his brother Adeloft or Adelolf succeeded to the County of Boulogne. However, in 933 Adeloft died, and Arnulf took the countship of Boulogne for himself, but later conveyed it to his nephew, Arnulf 2.

Arnulf 1 greatly expanded Flemish rule to the south, taking all or part of Artois, Ponthieu, Amiens, and Ostrevent. He exploited the conflicts between Charles the Simple and Robert I of France, and later those between Louis 4 and his barons.

In his southern expansion Arnulf inevitably had conflict with the Normans, who were trying to secure their northern frontier. This led to the 942 murder of the Duke of Normandy, William Longsword, at the hands of Arnulf's men. The Viking threat was receding during the later years of Arnulf's life, and he turned his attentions to the reform of the Flemish government.

Arnulf made his eldest son and heir Baldwin 3 of Flanders co-ruler in 958, but Baldwin died untimely in 962, so Arnulf was succeeded by Baldwin's infant son, Arnulf 2 of Flanders.

Arnulv married Adele (Alice) av Vermandois about 0933 in Flandern, Belgia. Adele (daughter of Herbert av Vermandois, "Herbert 2" and Luitgard (Liegard) av Paris) was born about 0915 in Vermandois, Normandie, Frankrike; died on 10 Oct 0960 in Gent, Øst-Flandern, Flandern, Belgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Birth:
St.Quinton

Died:
Bruges, Aquitaine, Frankrike?
Begravet Abby de St.Pierre.

Notes:

Married:
The name of Arnulf's first wife is unknown but he had at least one daughter by her:
Name unknown; married Isaac of Cambrai. Their son Arnulf succeeded his father as Count of Cambrai.

In 934 he married Adele of Vermandois, daughter of Herbert 2 of Vermandois. Their children were:

1. Hildegarde, born c. 934, died 990; she married Dirk 2, Count of Holland. It is uncertain whether she is his daughter by his first or second wife.

2. Liutgard, born in 935, died in 962; married Wichmann 4, Count of Hamaland.

3. Egbert, died 953.

4. Baldwin 3 of Flanders (c. 940 – 962), married Mathilde of Saxony (dead 1008), daughter of Hermann Billung.

5. Elftrude; married Siegfried, Count of Guînes.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 0936, Sachsen, Tyskland; Greve.

Notes:

Occupation:
I 936 ble han tildelt tittelen markgreve av Otto den store som takk for hans deltagelse i overvinnelsen av redarierne, obotrittene, wagrierne og danene.

I 940 var han greve av Wetigau og i 953 utnevnte Otto ham til sin stedfortreder i Sachsen, noe som de facto gjorde ham til hertug uten at han hadde tittelen.

Herman greide å fordrive nevøene sine, Wichmann 2 og Ekbert enøye, som sympatiserte med opprørerne fra Sachsen.

I 955 opptrådte Hermann Billung som greve i Tilithigau og Marstengau, og i 956 ble han utnevnt til markgreve.

Under Ottos reise til Italia i 956 og til Roma i 961 utnevnte han Herman på ny som sin stedfortreder i Sachsen.

Died:
Quedlinburg ved elven Bode.

Herman married Hildegard (Hildeshuith) av Westerbourg about 0940 in Sachsen, Tyskland. Hildegard died about 1011. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Married:
Herman var gift med Oda og senere med Hildeshuith, og med dem hadde han barna:

Bernhard 1 av Sachsen (-1011).

Ludger (-1011).

Suanehilde (-1014), gift med markgreve Thietmar 1 av Meißen (-979) og deretter med markgreve Ekhard 1 av Meißen (-1002)
Imma, abbedisse i Herford.

Mathildis (942-1008), gift med greve Boudewijn 3 av Flandern (940-962) i 961 og i 963 med grev Gottfried av Verdun (930-1002).

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Bef 0923, Italia; Markgreve av Iveria og greve av Parma.

Adalbert married Gisela av Friaul about 0900. Gisela (daughter of Berenger av Italia, "Berenger 1" and Berlita, av Spoleto) was born about 0881 in Friuli, Lombardia, Italia; died about 0913. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]