Baldwin IV “le Bâtisseur”, count of Hainaut

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).