Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 7 November 1171.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date is given by Gilbert (p. 61).
Relationships
Father: Baldwin III, count of Hainaut.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:775), by Smet, by van Eickels, and by Napran.
Mother: Yolende of Gueldre.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:775), by Smet, by van Eickels, and by Napran.
Spouse: Alix de Namur. Married about 1130.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:776), by van Eickels, by Genicot (p. 287), and by Napran.
Children (by Alix):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Yolende married (1) Ivo, count of Soissons; married (2) Hugh IV, count of Saint Pol.
Agnes married Raoul of Coucy.
Laureta (died 9 August 1181) married (1) Thierry of Alost; married (2) Bouchard V of Montmorency.
Godfrey (1147 - 7 April 1163) married Eleanor of Vermandois.
Baldwin V (1150 - 17 December 1195) married Margaret of Flanders.
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.
Genicot, Léopold. Études sur les principautés lotharingiennes, (Louvain, 1975).
Gilbert of Mons. Chronicle of Hainaut . (Laura Napran, trans.). (The Boydell Press, 2005).
Smet, J.-J. de, “Baudouin IV” in Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 1 (Bruxelles:1866).