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]

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 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]

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]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 1036, Flandern, Belgia; Greve av Flandern.

Notes:

Occupation:
Balduin 5 knyttet ved ekteskap for en kort tid Haunaut til sine andre besittelser. De zeelandske øyer gikk imidlertid tapt til greven av Holland. Han fikk tilnavnet Insulanus.

Kilder bl.a.:
Erich Brandenburg: Die Nachkommen Karls des Grossen. Leipzig 1935.
Mogens Bugge: Våre forfedre, nr. 1178.
Bent og Vidar Billing Hansen: Rosensverdslektens forfedre, side 37.

Baldwin 5 of Flanders was Count of Flanders from 1035 until his death. He was the son of Baldwin 4, Count of Flanders.

In 1028 Baldwin married Adèle of France in Amiens, daughter of King Robert II of France; at her instigation he rebelled against his father but in 1030 peace was sworn and the old count continued to rule until his death.

During a long war (1046–1056) as an ally of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lorraine, against the Holy Roman Emperor Henry 3, he initially lost Valenciennes to Hermann of Hainaut. However, when the latter died in 1051 Baldwin married his son Baldwin 6 to Herman's widow Richildis and arranged that the sons of her first marriage were disinherited, thus de facto uniting the County of Hainaut with Flanders.
Upon the death of Henry 3 this marriage was acknowledged by treaty by Agnes de Poitou, mother and regent of Henry 4.

Baldwin 5 played host to a grateful dowager queen Emma of England, during her enforced exile, at Bruges. He supplied armed security guards, entertainment, comprising a band of minstrels. Bruges was a bustling commercial centre, and Emma fittingly grateful to the citizens. She dispensed generously to the poor, making contact with the monastery of Saint Bertin at St Omer, and received her son, King Harthacnut of England at Bruges in 1039.

From 1060 to 1067 Baldwin was the co-Regent with Anne of Kiev for his nephew-by-marriage Philip 1 of France, indicating the importance he had acquired in international politics. As Count of Maine, Baldwin supported the King of France in most affairs. But he was also father-in-law to William of Normandy, who had married his daughter Matilda.

Flanders played a pivotal role in Edward the Confessor's foreign policy. As the King of England was struggling to find an heir: historians have argued that he may have sent Harold Godwinsson to negotiate the return of Edward the Atheling from Hungary, and passed through Flanders, on his way to Germany. Baldwin's half-sister had married Earl Godwin's third son, Tostig. The half-Viking Godwinsons had spent their exile in Dublin, at a time William of Normandy was fiercely defending his duchy. It is unlikely however that Baldwin intervened to prevent the duke's invasion plans of England, after the Count had lost the conquered province of Ponthieu.

By 1066, Baldwin was an old man, and died the following year.


Died:
Lille?

Balduin married about 1028 in Paris, Ile-de-France, Frankrike. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married Toste Godwinson in Sep 1051. Toste (son of Godwin (Gudine) Wulfnothsen av Wessex and Gyda Torkilsdatter) died on 25 Sep 1066 in Stamford Bridge, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Judith married Welf av Bayern in 1070. Welf died on 6 Nov 1101 in Pafos, Kypros. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]