Biography of Baldwin VI Count Flanders I Count Hainault 1030-1070

Paternal Family Tree: Flanders

Maternal Family Tree: Gerberge Unknown Viscountess Anjou

In January 1027 Richard Normandy III Duke Normandy (age 25) and [his mother] Adela Capet Duchess Normandy (age 18) were married. She by marriage Duchess Normandy. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks (age 54) and [his grandmother] Constance Arles Queen Consort France (age 41). He the son of Richard "Good" Normandy II Duke Normandy and Judith Penthièvre Duchess Normandy. They were second cousin once removed.

In 1028 [his father] Baldwin "The Good" V Count Flanders (age 15) and [his mother] Adela Capet Duchess Normandy (age 19) were married. She the daughter of [his grandfather] Robert "Pious" II King of the Franks (age 55) and [his grandmother] Constance Arles Queen Consort France (age 42). He the son of [his grandfather] Baldwin "Bearded" IV Count Flanders (age 48) and [his grandmother] Ogive Luxemburg Countess Flanders. They were half third cousin twice removed.

In 1030 Baldwin VI Count Flanders I Count Hainault was born to [his father] Baldwin "The Good" V Count Flanders (age 17) and [his mother] Adela Capet Duchess Normandy (age 21).

Before 1051 [his brother-in-law] King William "Conqueror" I of England (age 22) and [his sister] Matilda Flanders Queen Consort England (age 19) were married. She the daughter of [his father] Baldwin "The Good" V Count Flanders (age 38) and [his mother] Adela Capet Duchess Normandy (age 41). He the illegitmate son of Robert "Magnificent" Normandy I Duke Normandy and Herleva of Falaise. They were third cousin once removed.

In 1051 Baldwin VI Count Flanders I Count Hainault (age 21) succeeded I Count Hainault.

Battle of Lille

In 1054 Lambert Flanders II Count Lens (age 38) died at Lille during the Battle of Lille when fighting for [his father] Baldwin "The Good" V Count Flanders (age 41).

Before 1055 Baldwin VI Count Flanders I Count Hainault (age 24) and Richilde Countess Flanders and Hainault were married. She by marriage Countess Flanders, Countess Hainault. He the son of Baldwin "The Good" V Count Flanders (age 42) and Adela Capet Duchess Normandy (age 45).

Around 1055 [his son] Arnulf III Count Flanders was born to Baldwin VI Count Flanders I Count Hainault (age 25) and [his wife] Richilde Countess Flanders and Hainault.

In 1056 [his son] Baldwin II Count Hainaut was born to Baldwin VI Count Flanders I Count Hainault (age 26) and [his wife] Richilde Countess Flanders and Hainault. He married his half fourth cousin Ida Reginar Countess Hainaut, daughter of Henry Reginar II Count Louvain and Adela Thuringa Countess Louvain, and had issue.

Before 1065 [his brother] Robert "The Frisian" I Count Flanders (age 31) and [his sister-in-law] Gertrude Billung Countess Holland (age 34) were married. She the daughter of Bernard II Duke of Saxony and Eilika Schweinfurt Duchess Saxony. He the son of [his father] Baldwin "The Good" V Count Flanders (age 52) and [his mother] Adela Capet Duchess Normandy (age 55). They were second cousin twice removed.

On 1st September 1067 Baldwin VI Count Flanders I Count Hainault (age 37) succeeded VI Count Flanders.

On 1st September 1067 [his father] Baldwin "The Good" V Count Flanders (age 55) died at Lille.

Coronation of Queen Matilda

On 11th May 1068 [his sister] Matilda Flanders Queen Consort England (age 37) was crowned Queen Consort England at Westminster Abbey [Map].

Battle of Cassel

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1070. Earl Baldwin (age 40) also died, and his son [his son] Arnulf (age 15) succeeded to the earldom. Earl William (age 50), in conjunction with the king of the Franks (age 17), was to be his guardian; but [his brother] Earl Robert (age 37) came and slew his kinsman Arnulf and the earl, put the king to flight, and slew many thousands of his men.

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The Deeds of the Dukes of Normandy. Finally, in the year of the Lord 1070, he [William FitzOsbern] went with Philip, King of the Franks (age 18), into Flanders, wishing to assist Baldwin, nephew of Queen Matilda. But [his brother] Robert the Frisian (age 38), supported by the army of Emperor Henry, attacked with his forces³ at dawn on the tenth day before the Kalends of March [20th February 1071], on Septuagesima Sunday, catching them unprepared; and while Philip fled with the French, he [Robert] slew [his son] Baldwin (age 16) [Arnulf⁴], his nephew, and Count William (age 51) with his own men’s weapons. Now let us return to the course of our history.

Denique anno ab Incarnatione Domini 1070 cum Philippo rege Francorum Flandriam perrexit, volens Balduino Mathildis reginæ nepoti subvenire. Robertus autem Frisio cum exercitu Henrici imperatoris sociato cuneis suis, x Kal. Martii, Dominico Septuagesimæ imparatos mane præoccupavit et Philippo cum Francis fugiente, Balduinum nepotem suum, et Willelmum comitem telis suorum occidit. Postea Flandriæ ducatum diu tenuit, moriensque filiis suis, Roberto Hierosolymitano et Philippo dereliquit. Nunc ad ordinem historiæ redeamus.

Note 1. Roger de Bretuil, 2nd Earl of Hereford, around 1056-1087+. In 1075 Roger rebelled against King William in a rebellion known as The Revolt of the Earls. He was imprisoned for life.

Note 2. Emma, married in 1075, against the wishes of King William, Ralph de Gaël, Earl of East Anglia, around 1042–1100, who fought at the Battle of Hastings. Ralph and Emma's brother Roger, were leading figures in the The Revolt of the Earls in 1075. Ralph and Emma escaped to his estates around Gaël in Brittany.

Note 3. William was killed at the Battle of Cassel.

Note 4. It was Arnulf, Count of Flanders, son of Baldwin VI Count of Flanders that was killed by his uncle Robert the Frisian at the Battle of Cassel.

On 17th July 1070 Baldwin VI Count Flanders I Count Hainault (age 40) died. His son Arnulf (age 15) succeeded III Count Flanders.