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| Baldwin I Iron-Arm of Flanders
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Baldwin I Iron-Arm of Flanders 1 2
Other names for Baldwin were Balduin Jernarmen, Baudouin Bras-de-Fer and Boudewijn de Ijzere Arm. General Notes: BALDWIN IRON-ARM, the first ruler of Flanders. A daring warrior under Charles II the Bald of France, he fell in love with the King's daughter Judith, the youthful widow of two English kings, married her (862), and fled with his bride to Lorraine. Charles, though at first angry, was at last conciliated, and made his son-in-law margrave (Marchio Flandriae) of Flanders (864), which he held as a hereditary fief. The Norsemen were at this time continually devastating the coastlands, and Baldwin was entrusted with this outlying borderland in order to defend it. He was the first of a line of strong rulers, who early in the 10th century exchanged the title of margrave for that of count. Noted events in his life were: • Acceded: Margrave/Count of Flanders, 862. Baldwin married Judith of the West Franks, daughter of Charles II the Bald of France and Irmentrud of Orleans, in 862 in Auxerre. (Judith of the West Franks was born in 843 and died in 870.) |
1 Tore Nygaard, Tore Nygaard's Genealogy (http://www.nygaard.home.se). Allgemeine deutsche Biographie. Erich Brandenburg: Die Nachkommen Karls des Grossen, Leipzig 1935. Mogens Bugge: Våre forfedre, nr. 843. Bent og Vidar Billing Hansen: Rosensverdslektens forfedre, side 38.
2 Encyclopædia Britannica Online, "Baldwin I".
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