of Flanders, Baudouin I

Birth Name of Flanders, Baudouin I
Nick Name Iron arm
Gender male
Age at Death 42 years

Narrative

# Note:

A daring warrior under Charles II, he fell in love with the King's daughter Judith, the youthful widow of 2 English kings, married her, and fled with his bride to Lorraine. At first angry, Charles eventually forgave him and made him Margrave of Flanders-changed to Count in the 10th century. Encyclopedia Britannica for Baldwin I.

# Note: Title: Encyclopedia Britannica, Treatise on
# Note: Page: Baldwin I
# Note: Title: Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, 7th Edition, by Frederick Lewis Weis, additions by Walter Lee Shippard Jr., 1999
# Note: Page: 162-16
# Note: Text: 862, 3rd husband

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tamer&id=I11304

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 837 Flanders, Nord, France   1
Death 879 Arras, Flanders   1

Age: 42y

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father , Odoscer805864
Mother
         of Flanders, Baudouin I 837 879

Families

Family of of Flanders, Baudouin I and of France, Judith
Married Wife of France, Judith ( * 843 + 870 )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage 862   Religious Marriage 1
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Flanders, Baudouin II863918-09-10
Flanders, Widnille865
de Cambrai, Rudolf865896-06-17