 0837 - 0879 (~ 41 years)
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| Name |
FLANDRE Baudouin |
| Birth |
0837 |
Oost-Vlaanderen, Flanders, Belgium  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
02 Jan 0879 |
Arras, Hautes-Pyrenees, Midi-Pyrenees, France |
| Notes |
- Baldwin I, Count of Flanders
Baudouin[1]
"Iron Arm"[2]
b. abt 830s
d. 879 Arras
Burial: Abbaye de Saint-Bertin[3][4]
Early Life
p. Odacre [5][6] and ____
Family
m. 13 Dec 862 Judith.[7] Issue: 5[5]
Charles (864/5 - d.Young)[5]
Baldwin II (865/67 - 10 Sep 918)[5]
Raoul [8], Count of Cambrai[2] (867/70 – 17 Jun 896) [5]
Guinidilda [2][9] (d. anti.19 Feb 904) [5] m. Wilfred the Hairy.
dau. ____[5]
Research Notes
The following has been transferred from the profile of Baldwin's wife:
By 864, Judith’s father Charles was conciliated to the couple [Baldwin and Judith] and made Baldwin I margrave of Flanders that year. The title of margrave was equivalent to that of count, but with extra military responsibilities reflecting lands on the marches, or borders, of an empire. The rulers of Flanders were often termed margraves or counts interchangeably. Baldwin was “also known as Baldwin Iron Arm (the epithet is first recorded in the 12th century).[1]
Baldwin developed himself as a very faithful and stout supporter of Charles and played an important role in the continuing wars against the Vikings. In 877 Baldwin is named as one of those willing to support the emperor's son, Louis the Stammerer.
Sources
↑ Genealogia Comitum Flandriæ Bertiniana;
Annales Blandinienses;
14 Jun 877 agreement of Emperor Charles II
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Wikipedia: Baldwin I, Count of Flanders
↑ Saint-Bertin, p. 11; Annales Vedastini 879, MGH SS II. pp. 197: near Saint-Omer.
↑ Annales Blandinienses: buried at Blandinie
↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 Medieval Lands.fmg.ac
↑ Alias: Audacer or Odoscer
↑ FMG: her 3rd husband;
Wikipedia: dau. Charles the Bald, king of West Francia; ex-husband: Æthelwulf and his son (from earlier marriage) Æthelbald, kings of Wessex (d.860), but after the latter's death she returned to France.
↑ Alias: Rodulf
↑ Alias: Gunhild; Guinidilde
Wikipedia: Baldwin I, Count of Flanders
fmg.ac
Flandria illustrata, sive Descriptio comitatus istius per totum terrarum orbem celeberrimi, III tomis absoluta / ab Antonio Sandero [...] author Sanderus, Antonius, 1586-1664 (viaf)51680321 publisher Coloniae Agrippinae : sumptibus Cornelii ab Egmondt et sociorum, 1641-1644
Courtesy of fantastically full family tree cf.:
Hughes of Gwerclas 1/2/3/4:
Pedigree Hughes of Gwerclas 1
Pedigree Hughes of Gwerclas 2
Pedigree Hughes of Gwerclas 3
Pedigree Hughes of Gwerclas 4
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| Person ID |
I58637 |
Freeman-Smith |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
| Father |
FLANDRE Audacer, b. 0810, Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France d. 0864, Flanders, Nord, France (Age ~ 54 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Mother |
HARLEBECQUE Anseline, b. 0820, France d. 0864, France (Age ~ 44 years) |
| Relationship |
natural |
| Family ID |
F26117 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
CAROLINGIAN Judith, b. Abt 0844, France d. Aft 0870, Flanders (Age > 27 years) |
| Marriage |
13 Dec 0862 |
Auxerre, Bourgogne, Francia |
| Children |
| | 1. FLANDRE Baudouin, b. Abt 0864, Flanders, Nord, France d. 10 Sep 0918, Ghent, Flanders, Belgium (Age 54 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
| | 2. FLANDRE Guinedilda, b. Bef 27 Jun 0875, Flanders d. Abt 0900, Flanders (Age > 24 years) [Father: natural] [Mother: natural] |
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| Family ID |
F26116 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
27 Jan 2026 |
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