Baldwin II, count of Hainaut

Count of Hainaut and of Valenciennes

Events

Date of Birth: 1056.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Van Eickels.

Date of Death: 1098.

Place of Death: near Nikaia.

Baldwin was declared dead in 1102 (Napran p. xv).

Relationships

Father: Baldwin VI, count of Flanders (Baudouin I, count of Hainaut).

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:773), by Smet, by van Eickels, by Murray (p. 186), and by Napran.

Mother: Richilde de Mons, countess of Hainaut.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:773), by Smet, by van Eickels, by Murray (p. 186), and by Napran.

Spouse: Ida de Louvain.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:774), by Smet, by van Eickels, by Murray (p. 186), and by Napran (p. 21).

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Ida (about 1085 - after 1105) married Thomas of Marle.

Baldwin III (1088 - 1120), count of Hainaut, married Yolande van Gelre.

Arnoul married Beatrice of Ath.

Louis.

Simon, canon in Liège.

Henry.

Guillaume.

Richilde married Amaury IV of Montfort, count of Evreux. (Married about 1115, divorced 1118).

Alix married Nicolas II of Rumigny.

References

Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).

Eickels, Karl van. Flandern genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.

Gilbert of Mons. Chronicle of Hainaut . (Laura Napran, trans.). (The Boydell Press, 2005).

Murray, Alan V. The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History. (Prosopographica et Genealogica: 2000).

Smet, J.-J. de, “Baudouin II” in Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 1 (Bruxelles:1866).

Tanner, Heather J. Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England c. 879 - 1160. (Brill: 2004).

van de Pas, Leo. Genealogics (continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler).