Baldwin VI of Flanders

Also known as Baudouin I de Hainaut.

Marquis of Flanders

Count of Hainaut

Events

Date of Birth: about 1030.

Place of Birth: unknown.

The date is given by Glocker (p. 344).

Date of Death: 17 August 1070.

The date is given by the Complete Peerage (6:449).

Relationships

Father: Baldwin V of Flanders.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:716), by Glocker (p. 344), and by Baldwin.

Mother: Adèle de France.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:716), by Glocker (p. 344), and by Baldwin.

Spouse: Richilde de Mons, countess of Hainaut, widow of Hermann, count of Hainaut. Died 1086.

This relationship is given by père Anselme (2:773), by Glocker (p. 344), by Nicholas (p. 115), and by Baldwin. 

Children:

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Arnoul III (about 1055 - 1072), count of Flanders, count of Hainaut.

Baldwin II (about 1056 - 1098), count of Hainaut, married Ida de Louvain.

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).

Baldwin, Stewart. “Baldwin (Baudouin) V de Lille (Balduinus Insulanus, Balduinus Pius)” in The Henry Project. (2006)

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59). 

Glocker, Winfrid. Die Verwandten der Ottonen und ihre Bedeutung in der Politik: Studien zur Familienpolitik und zur Genealogie des Sächsischen Kaiserhauses (Böhlau Verlag: Köln, 1989).

Nicholas, Karen S. “Countesses as Rulers in Flanders” in Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).

Smet, J.-J. de, “Baudouin VI” 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).