Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Flandern, Belgia; Governor.

Family/Spouse: Unknown. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 0862, Flandern, Belgia; Markgreve av Flandern

Notes:

Birth:
I A. Conhs: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der europeischen Staaten, 1871, heter det at Baldiun var sønn til Audakar, sønn til Ingelgram som levde i 808, igjen sønn til Liderik som levde i 729.

Occupation:
Balduin Jernarmen, var markgreve av Flandern.
Balduin stammer fra en edel vestfrankisk slekt og kom i sin ungdom til Karl den skalledes hoff.

Flandern omfattet kystlandet fra utløpet av elven Aa til Scheldemunningen.
Flandernslekten var grever av Flandern fra 862 til 1119 og senere grever av Hainaut. Grevskapet Flandern ligger nå hovedsaklig i Belgia, men var den gang en del av Frankrike. Luxembourgslekten var grever av Luxembourg (Moselgau) fra 963 til 1136.

Flandern var ved Caesars erobring av Gallia bebodd av keltiske og germanske stammer og hørte senere til den romerske provins Belgica Secunda, før de germanske frankerne trengte inn i området under folkevandringene. Enda området i hovedsak var et germansk område, ble det ved delingen av det frankiske rike i 843 (forliket i Verdun) tillagt det vestfrankiske riket, det senere Frankrike. Kong Karl den skallete gav i 864 et område omkring Brugge og Gent som markgrevskap til sin svigersønn Balduin 1. Dennes sønn, Balduin 2, bygde grevskapet ut til et selvstendig rike, som Arnulf 1 på 900-tallet utvidet til sør for elven Somme. 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.

I middelalderen ble det utviklet en betydelig tekstilindustri i Flandern, særlig i byene Brugge, Gent, Ieper og Douai (Dowaai). Forutsetningen for denne industrien var import av engelsk ull, noe den franske kongen mislikte. Det kom til flere opprør; det mest berømte var Gyldensporeslaget ved Kortrijk 1302, der en hær av flamske vevere og bønder tilføyde den overlegne franske hær et knusende nederlag. Brugge var på 1300- og 1400-tallet det viktigste handelssentrum i Europa. Samtidig blomstret kulturen. Det nederlandske litteraturspråk fant sin form her omkring 1200. De franskspråklige byer i sør, Arras og Lille, var samtidig de viktigste sentra for franskspråklig litteratur. På 1400-tallet var Gent og Brugge sentrum for den første store perioden i nederlandsk malerkunst.

I 1369 inngikk hertug Filip den dristige av Burgund ekteskap med Margaretha, eneste arving til Flandern, og 1384 ble Filip greve av Flandern. Ved hans død i 1404 overtok sønnen Jan uten frykt, som ble myrdet i 1419. Hans sønn, Filip den gode, klarte ved hjelp av arv og avtaler å samle 11 av de 17 nederlandske provinser i en personalunion, med Brussel som hovedstad. Siden har Flanderns historie vært en del av Nederlandenes historie (se Belgia, historie og Nederland, historie).

Kilder bl.a.:
Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.
Erich Brandenburg: Die Nachkommen Karls des Grossen, Leipzig 1935.
Mogens Bugge: V?re forfedre, nr. 843.
Bent og Vidar Billing Hansen: Rosensverdslektens forfedre, side 38.

Baldwin 1 (probably 830s – 879), also known as Baldwin Iron Arm (the epithet is first recorded in the 12th century), was the first count of Flanders.

At the time Baldwin first appears in the records he was already a count, presumably in the area of Flanders, but this is not known. Count Baldwin rose to prominence when he eloped with princess Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald, king of West Francia.

By 870 Baldwin had acquired the lay-abbacy of St. Pieter in Ghent and is assumed to have also acquired the counties of Flanders and Waasland, or parts thereof by this time. Baldwin developed himself as a very faithful and stout supporter of Charles and played an important role in the continuing wars against the Vikings. He is named in 877 as one of those willing to support the emperor's son, Louis the Stammerer. During his life Baldwin expanded his territory into one of the major principalities of Western Francia, he died in 879 and was buried in the Abbey of St-Bertin, near Saint-Omer.

Baldwin was succeeded by his and Judith's son, Baldwin 2 (c.866 – 918).

Balduin married Judith av Flandern on 13 Dec 862 in Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, Frankrike. Judith (daughter of Karl (Charles) av Vest-Franken, "Karl 2" and Irmentrud (Ermentrude) av Orleans) was born between 0843 and 0844 in Roches, Frankrike; died about 0870 in Roches, Frankrike. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Died:
Charles, named after his maternal grandfather, died at a young age.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 0879, Flandern, Belgia; Greve av Flandern.

Notes:

Occupation:
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.

Died:
Blandinberg. 2.januar?

Balduin married Elftrude (Aefthryth) av Wessex about 0884 in Flandern, Belgia. Elftrude (daughter of Alfred (Aelfred) av Wessex and Ealhswyth (Ealswith) av Gaini) was born about 0871 in Wessex, England; died on 07 Jun 0929 in Gent, Øst-Flandern, Flandern, Belgia; was buried after 07 Jun 0929 in Gent, Øst-Flandern, Flandern, Belgia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Abt 0888, Cambrai, Nord, Pas-de-Calais, Frankrike; Greve.

Notes:

Occupation:
Raoul (Rodulf) became Count of Cambrai around 888.

Died:
Drept av Herbert 1 av Vermandois.

Raoul (Rodulf) (c.869 – murdered 896) became Count of Cambrai around 888, but he and his brother Baldwin 2 joined king Zwentibold of Lotharingia in 895.
In 896 they attacked Vermandois and captured Arras, Saint-Quentin and Peronne, but later that year Raoul was captured by count Heribert and killed.