Counts of Flanders

1. Ida of Hainaut: Married Roger III, De Conches, De Toeni, Lord Flamstead: Born about 1104; Died 1157/1162. (See De Toeni)

2. Baldwin (Baudouin) III, Count of Hainaut (Hennegau): Born 1087/1088, of Hainaut, France; Died 1120; Married 1107; Yolande (Jolande) of Guelders, Von Wassenberg, Countess of Hainaut: Born 1089, Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia.

Yolande's Parents through Great-Great-Great-Grandfather--

• I. Gerald (Gerard, Gerhard) I (III), Count De Wassenberg and Guelders: Born about 1063, Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia; Died 1125; Married Clemence, Countess of Wassenberg: Born about 1065, Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia.
  • A. Heinrich Von Wassenberg: Born about 1063, Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia; Died 1125.
    • 1. Gerard II, Count Von Wassenberg: Born 1013, Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia; Died 1082, Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia.
      • i. Gerard I, Count Von Wassenberg: Born 998, Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia; Died 1035.
        • a. Mr. Von Wassenberg: Born 963, of Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia.

Baldwin's Parents--

3. Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut: Born 1061, of Hainaut, France; Died 1099; Married 1084; Ida (Alix) of Louvain: Born 1063, of Hainaut, France; Died 1139. (See Counts of Louvain)

4. Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders, (AKA Baldwin I) Count of Hainaut: Born about 1030; Died 10 Jul 1070; Married about 1055; Richildis De Hainaut: Died 15 March 1088.

5. Baldwin V, Count of Flanders: Born about 1012, Flanders, France; Died 1 September 1067, Lille, Nord, France; Married 1028, Paris, Seine, France; Adele (Alix), Princess of France: Born 1009, France; Died 1079, Monastere De L'O, Messines, France.

Adele's Father--

• I. Robert II "the Pious" King of France: Born 27 March 972, Orleans, France; Died 20 July 1031, Melun, France (See Kings of France) Married 1000, France; Constance De Toulouse, Queen of France. (See Counts of Toulouse )

Baldwin's Parents--

6. Baldwin IV "The Bearded", Count of Flanders: Born 980; Died 30 May 1036; Married about 1012; Ogive of Luxembourg: Born about 995; Died 21 February 1030.

Ogive's Parents--

• I. Frederick I, Count of Luxembourg, Count of Salm: (See Fortescue) Born about 965, of Moselgau, France; Died 6 October 1019; Married after 985, of Lorraine, France; Irmentrude of Gleiberg: (See Kings of Italy) Born about 960, of Lorraine, France.

Baldwin's Parents--

7. Arnulph II "The Young", Count of Flanders: Born about 941, Flanders, France; Died 30 March 987; Married Rosele (Susanna), Princess of Italy: Born about 945, of Luxembourg; Died 26 January 1002/3, Ghent, Belgium. (See Kings of Italy #2)

8. Baldwin III, Count of Flanders: Born about 933, of Flanders, France; Died 1 November 962; Married Mathilde, Countess of Flanders: Born about 969, of Burgundy, France; Died 25 May 1008. (See Kings of Burgundy)

9. Arnulph I "The Old", Count of Flanders: Born about 889, of Flanders, France; Died 27 March 964; Married 932/934, of Flanders, Belgium; Adele (Alice, Alix) Vermandois, Countess of Flanders: Born about 910/915, of Vermandois, Normandy, France; Died 10 October 958/960, Bruges.

Adele's Parents and Grandparents--

• I. Herbert II, Count De Vermandois: Born 880/890, of Vermandois, Normandy, France; Died about 23 February 943, St. Quentin; Married before 907, France; Hildebrante, Princess of France: Born about 887, of Vermandois, Normandy, France; Died after 931.
• Hildebrante's Parents--
  • A. Robert "the Old", Duke of Burgundy, Prince of France, Count of Paris: Born 870 of Borgogne, France; Died 15 June 923, Soissons, France; Married Beatrice De Vermandois, Princess of France: Born about 880, of Vermandois, Normandy, France. (See Kings of France)
• Herbert's Father--
  • i. Herbert I, Count of Vermandois, Seigneur De Senlis, Perrone, and St. Quentin: Born about 848, of Vermandois, Normandy, France; Died murdered about 902; Married Bertha De Morvois: (See Kings of Italy)

Arnulph's Parents--

10. Baldwin II "the Bald", Count of Flanders: Born about 864, of Flanders, Nord, France; Died 10 September 918; Married about 888; Elfrida, Princess of England: Born about 868, of Wessex, England; Died 920. (See Anglo Saxon Monarchs) When Hugh Magnus sent to Athelstan, King of England to request one of his daughter's hands in marriage he sent Baldwin II, Count of Flanders. Baldwin's wife was Athelstan's aunt. A detailed account of this mission survives. It descibes the treasure that Baldwin brought with him on Hugh Magnus' behalf. "When he had sent forth the wooer's requests in an assembly of nobles at Abingdon, he offered indeed most ample gifts, which might instantly satisfy the cupidity of the most avaricious: perfumes such as never before had been seen in England; jewellery, especially of emeralds, in whose greenness the reflected sun lit up the eyes of the bystanders with a pleasing light; many fleet horses, with trappings, 'champing', as Maro [Virgil] says, 'on bits of ruddy gold'; a vase of onyx, carved with subtle engraver's art that the cornfields really seemed to wave, the vines really seemed to bud, the forms of the men really to move, and so clear and polished that it reflected like a mirror the faces of the onlookers; the sword of Constantine the Great, on which could be read the name of their ancient owner in letters of gold; on the pommel also above thick plates of gold you could see an iron nail fixed, one of the four which the Jewish faction prepared for the crucificxion of Our Lord's body; the spear of Charles the Great, which, whenever that most invincible emperor, leading an army against the Saracens, hurled it against the enemy, never let him depart without the victory; it was said to be the same which, driven by the hand of the centurion into Our Lord's side, opened by the gash of that precious wound Paradise for wretched mortals; the standard of Maurice, the most blessed martyr and prince of the Theban legion, by which the same King was wont in the Spanish war to break asunder the battalions of the enemies, however fierce and dense, and to force them to flight; a diadem, precious certainly for its quantity of gold, but more for its gems, whose splendour so threw flashes of light on to the onlookers that the more anyone strove to fix his gaze on it, the more he was driven back and forced to give in; a piece of the holy and adorable Cross enclosed in crystal, where the eye, penetrating the substance of the stone, could discern what was the color of the wood and what the quantity; a portion also of the crown of thorns, similarly enclosed, which the madness of the soldiers placed on Christ's sacred head in mockery of his kingship." Needless to say his envoy was well received and Hugh Magnus was granted his request.

11. Baldwin I, Count of Flanders: Born about 837/840, of Flanders, Nord, France; Married about 859, Flanders, Nord, France; Died 879; Married Judith, Princess of the Franks, Queen of England: Born 844, France; Died after 870. (See Holy Roman Emperors #2)

12. Odoscer (Odacre) the Flemming, Count of Harlebeck, Governor of Flanders: Born about 810, of Flanders, France; Married about 836.

13. Engleran the Flemming, Count of Harlebeck, Governor of Flanders: Born about 780, of Flanders, France; Married about 809.

14. Liderie the Flemming, Count of Harlebeck, Governor of Flanders: Born about 750, of Flanders, France; Married about 779.