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Personal data Boudewijn II van Vlaanderen 

• Alternative name: de Kale
• He was born about 865.
• Title: Graaf, van Boulogne
• Title: Graaf, van Vlaanderen
• He died on September 10, 918.
• A child of Boudewijn I van Vlaanderen and Judith van West Francië

Household of Boudewijn II van Vlaanderen

He is married to Ælfthryth van Wessex.

They got married.

Child(ren):

1. Arnulf I van Vlaanderen  ± 889-965 
2. Æthelwulf van Boulogne  899-± 933 

Notes about Boudewijn II van Vlaanderen

BAUDOUIN ([865/67]-[10 Sep] 918, bur St Bertin, transferred 929 to Gent, St Pieter). He is named as second of the three sons of Baudouin and his wife Judith in the list of counts of Flanders recorded in the Cartulaire de Saint-Bertin[57]. He succeeded his father in 879 as BAUDOUIN II "le Chauve" Count of Flanders. According to Rösch, Baudouin II was nicknamed after his maternal grandfather although it is surprising that such a personal nickname could be so transmitted[58]. From his succession, he came under great pressure from Viking raids, and took refuge in the marshes of Saint-Omer in 883[59]. Baudouin II expanded his territories by occupying the pagi of Mempisc, Courtrai and the Ijzer, seizing control of the counties of Ternois and Boulonnais after 892 as well as the Tournaisis (except for the town of Tournai)[60]. Although Count Baudouin at first supported the election of Eudes as king of France in 888, the latter opposed the count's becoming lay-abbot of St Bertin (in 892, in succession to abbot Rudolf[61]) and pursued the count to Bruges, although the king was unable to capture the town. The Annales Vedastini record the death "Non Ian 892" of "Rodulfus abba", that "castellani Egfridum comitem" was sent to announce the news to the king, and that in his absence "Balduinum a Flandris…per consilium Evreberti qui nimis fuerat versutissimus" seized the abbacy against the wishes of the king who had promised it to Egfrid[62]. The Annales Vedastini record that "Balduinus" captured Artois in 892[63]. Count Baudouin supported the coronation of Charles III "le Simple" as king of the West Franks in 895, but afterwards supported Zwentibold Duke of Lotharingia. The Annales Vedastini name "Balduinus…comes et Rodulfus frater eius necnon et Ragnerus" when recording that they joined Zwentibold in 895[64]. Baudouin II invaded Péronne in 899[65] and attacked Vermandois, Artois and Boulogne, but was driven out of Vermandois by 900, although he reconquered it and killed Héribert II Comte de Vermandois in revenge for the death of his brother Raoul[66]. Count Baudouin also controlled the abbeys of St Vaast and St Bertin. The Annales Blandinienses record the death in 918 of "Balduvinus comes", specifying that he was buried at "Blandinio"[67]. An undated charter, dated to [962], recording the last wishes of "marchysi Arnulfi", notes that "pater meus et mater mea" were buried in the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Gand[68]. His territories were divided between his two sons on his death[69]. m ([893/99]) ÆLFTHRYTH of Wessex, daughter of ALFRED King of Wessex & his wife Ealhswith of the Gainas ([877]-7 Jun 929, bur Gent, St Pieter). "Elfthtritham" is named by Roger of Hoveden, third in his list of King Alfred's daughters by Queen Ealhswith[70]. She is called "Æthelswitha" by Asser[71]. "Elftrudis" is named as wife of Count Baudouin II in the Cartulaire de Saint-Bertin without giving her origin[72]. The Genealogia Comitum Flandriæ names "filia Edgeri regis Anglorum, nomine Elferudem" as the wife of "Balduinus Calvus"[73], although "Edgeri" is clearly an error for "Alfredi". This marriage represented the start of a long-lasting alliance between England and Flanders, founded on their common interest in preventing Viking settlements along the coast. "Elstrudis comitissa…cum filiis suis Arnulfo et Adelolfo" donated "hereditatem suam Liefsham…in terra Anglorum in Cantia" to Saint-Pierre de Gand, for the soul of "senioris sui Baldwini", by charter dated 11 Sep 918[74]. The Annales Blandinienses record the death in 929 of "filia regis Elftrudis comitissa"[75]. The Memorial of "Elstrudis…Balduini…domini" records her death "VII Iunii"[76]. An undated charter, dated to [962], recording the last wishes of "marchysi Arnulfi", notes that "pater meus et mater mea" were buried in the abbey of Saint-Pierre de Gand[77].

Count Baudouin II & his wife had [five] children:
ARNOUL de Flandres (after [893/99]-murdered 27 Mar 964, bur Gent, St Pieter)
ADALOLF [Æthelwulf] de Flandres (after [893/99]-13 Nov 933, bur Gent St Pieter)
EALSWID de Flandres.
ERMENTRUDE de Flandres.
Nn

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[57] Saint-Bertin, p. 11.

[58] Rösch, S. (1977) Caroli Magni Progenies (Verlag Degener & Co, Neustadt an der Aisch), p. 117.

[59] Nicholas (1992), p. 37.

[60] Nicholas (1992), pp. 17-18.

[61] Annales Blandinienses 892, MGH SS V, p. 24.

[62] Annales Vedastini 892, MGH SS II, p. 527. .

[63] Annales Vedastini 892, MGH SS II, p. 527. .

[64] Annales Vedastini 895, MGH SS I p. 529.

[65] Annales Vedastini 899, MGH SS II, p. 209.

[66] Nicholas (1992), p. 19.

[67] Annales Blandinienses 918, MGH SS V, p. 24.

[68] Gand Saint-Pierre, 29, p. 33.

[69] Saint-Bertin II.73, 918, p. 138.

[70] Roger of Hoveden I, p. 41.

[71] Asser, Part II.

[72] Saint-Bertin II.73, 918, p. 138.

[73] Lamberti Genealogia Comitum Flandriæ 2, MGH SS IX, p. 309.

[74] Liber traditionum sancti Petri Blandiniensis, 60, p. 52.

[75] Annales Blandinienses 929, MGH SS V, p. 24.

[76] MGH Poetæ Latini medii ævi, V.1, Die Ottonenzeit, Grabschriften, p. 298.

[77] Gand Saint-Pierre 29, p. 33.

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