Also known as Baldwin VIII, count of Flanders.
Events
Date of Birth: 1150.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by Prevenier.
Date of Death: 17 December 1195.
Place of Death: Mons.
The date and place are given by père Anselme (2:777) and by Prevenier. Smet gives 21 December 1197.
Relationships
Father: Baldwin IV “le Bâtisseur”, count of Hainaut.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:776), by Smet, by Genicot (p. 287), by Prevenier, and by Napran.
Mother: Alix de Namur.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:776), by Genicot (p. 287), by Prevenier and by Napran.
Spouse: Marguerite d’Alsace. Married April 1169.
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:79; 2:777), by Genicot (p. 287), by Prevenier, by Napran, and by Keats-Rohan (p. 242).
Children (by Marguerite):
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Isabelle (23 April 1170 - 14 or 15 March 1190) married Philippe II “Auguste”, king of France.
Baldwin IX (July 1171 - 11 June 1205), count of Flanders, emperor of Constantinople, married Marie de Champagne.
Yolende (about 1175 - 24 or 26 August 1219) married Pierre (II), lord of Courtenay (later Pierre I, emperor of Constantinople).
Philip (March 1174 - 15 October 1212) married Marie de France.
Henry (about 1176 - 11 July 1216), emperor of Constantinople, married (1) Agnese di Monferrato 4 February 1207 in Constantinople; married (2) Marija of Bulgaria.
Sibyl (died 9 January 1217), married Guichard IV of Beaujeu.
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).
Genicot, Léopold. Études sur les principautés lotharingiennes, (Louvain, 1975).
Gilbert of Mons. Chronicle of Hainaut . (Laura Napran, trans.). (The Boydell Press, 2005).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Prevenier, W. "Balduin VIII." in Lexikon des Mittelalters. Band 1 (Stuttgart: 1980).
Smet, J.-J. de, “Baudouin V” in Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 1 (Bruxelles:1866).