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• Er wurde geboren August 835 in Flanders, Vlaanderen, Belgium.
• Titel: Count of Flanders, 1st Margrave of Flanders
• (Ancestry) : House of Flanders.
• (Nickname) : "Iron Arm".
• Er ist verstorben am 2. Januar 879 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, Artois, France, er war 43 Jahre alt.
• Er wurde beerdigt im Jahr 879 in Abbaye de Saint-Bertin, St Omer, France.
• Ein Kind von AUDACER de FLANDERS und ANSELINE de HARLEBECQUE

Familie von BALDWIN de FLANDERS I

Er ist verheiratet mit JUDITH de FRANCE.

Sie haben geheiratet Januar 861/62 in Monastery of Senlis, France, er war 25 Jahre alt.

Kind(er):

1. GUNHILDA de FLANDERS  856-???? 
2. Charles de FLANDERS  862-874
3. RUDOLF de FLANDERS  865-896 
4. BALDWIN de FLANDERS  864-918 
5. William III Le Clito de FLANDERS  860-????

Notizen bei BALDWIN de FLANDERS I

Baldwin I (probably 830s - 879), also known as Baldwin Iron Arm (the epithet is first recorded in the 12th century), was the first Margrave of Flanders.

At the time Baldwin first appears in the records he was already a count, presumably in the area of Flanders, but this is not known. Count Baldwin rose to prominence when he eloped with princess Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald, king of West Francia. Judith had previously been married to Æthelwulf and his son (from an earlier marriage) Æthelbald, kings of Wessex, but after the latter's death in 860, she returned to France.

Around the Christmas of 861, at the instigation of Baldwin and with her brother Louis's consent, Judith escaped the custody into which she had been placed in the city of Senlis, Oise after her return from England. She fled north with Count Baldwin. Charles had given no permission for a marriage and tried to capture Baldwin, sending letters to Rorik of Dorestad and Bishop Hungar, forbidding them to shelter the fugitive.

After Baldwin and Judith had evaded his attempts to capture them, Charles had his bishops excommunicate the couple. Judith and Baldwin responded by travelling to Rome to plead their case with Pope Nicholas I. Their plea was successful and Charles was forced to accept the situation. The marriage took place on 13 December 862 in Auxerre. By 870, Baldwin had acquired the lay-abbacy of Saint Peter's Abbey in Ghent and is assumed to have also acquired the counties of Flanders and Waasland, or parts thereof by this time. Baldwin developed himself as a very faithful and stout supporter of Charles and played an important role in the continuing wars against the Vikings. He is named in 877 as one of those willing to support the emperor's son, Louis the Stammerer. During his life, Baldwin expanded his territory into one of the major principalities of Western Francia. He died in 879 and was buried in the Abbey of St-Bertin, near Saint-Omer.

Family
Baldwin was succeeded by his and Judith's son, Baldwin II (c. 866 - 918). The couple's first son, Charles, named after his maternal grandfather, died at a young age. His third son Raoul (Rodulf) (c. 869 - murdered 896) became Count of Cambrai around 888, but he and his brother joined king Zwentibold of Lotharingia in 895. In 896, they attacked Vermandois and captured Arras, Saint-Quentin and Peronne, but later that year Raoul was captured by Count Herbert and killed.
SOURCE: Wikipedia- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_I,_Margrave_of_Flanders

Baldwin I "Iron-arm" Count [presumably of Flanders], before 862-879. Lay-abbot of Saint-Pierre de Gand (St. Peter's, Ghent), 870. Count Baldwin I, ancestor of the counts of Flanders, first appears in history in the year 862, when Judith, daughter of king Charles the Bald, and successively widow of the two Anglo-Saxon kings Æthelwulf and Ethelbald, eloped with him, with the assistance of Judith's brother Louis (later king Louis II)

"Charles came through Rheims to the city of Soissons, where he learned news from an undoubted source [about his daughter Judith and his son Louis.] Judith, widow of Æthelbald, king of the English, having sold the possessions which she had obtained in the kingdom of England, had returned to her father, and was kept with the honor due to a queen under the guardianship of her father under royal and episcopal custody in the city of Senlis, until, if he could not contain her, she should be properly and legally married according to the apostles. Judith, changing her clothes, had followed count Baldwin by his instigation, with the consent of her brother Louis; and that his son Louis, urged by the aforesaid Guntfrid [and Gozfrid], had abandoned his loyalty to his father, and had run away in the night with a few men and had gone in refuge to those urging him."

Charles asked his bishops to anathemize Baldwin and Judith, but he reconciled with them the next year at the pope's request, when Baldwin and Judith were married. Flodoard mentions two relevant letters of Hincmar of Reims during this time, one to bishop Hungarius of Utrecht, urging that Hungarius warn the Norman Roric, then ruling at Dorestadt in Frisia, not to receive Baldwin, and another with the same warning to Roric himself. A document based on a charter of king Charles the Bald, dated 13 April 870, but having later interpolations in its present form, mentions a "vir venerabilis Balduinus" who was abbot of Saint-Pierre de Gand. It has been argued that the name of the abbot was that of count Baldwin I himself as lay-abbot of Saint-Pierre de Gand.

The Annales Vedastini record his death in 879. The epithet of "Iron-arm" usually attributed to him appears in the work of Wimann (d. 1192), who attributed the nickname to his strength and audacity. Additions to Annales Vedastini give him the epithets of Bonus (the Good) and Ferreus (Iron). Beyond the indication that he was lay-abbot of Saint-Pierre de Gand, there is no contemporary evidence indicating the specific pagi over which he held authority. Because his son Baldwin II clearly held authority there, Flanders (pagus Flandrensis) would be one obvious choice, and would make him a neighbor of Roric. It seems likely that he was count of Flanders by the time of his death at least, if not much earlier, but this is not directly documented. Date of Birth: Unknown. Place of Birth: Unknown. Date of Death: 879. [Annales Vedastini]
SOURCE: http://sbaldw.home.mindspring.com/hproject/prov/baldw001.htm

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