Family of Baldwin IV +* and Eleanore of NORMANDY

Husband:	Baldwin IV +* (980-1035)
Wife:	Eleanore of NORMANDY (1011-aft1071)
Children:	Judith + (1033-1094)
Marriage	1031

Husband: Baldwin IV +*

Name:	Baldwin IV +*
Sex:	Male
Nickname:	The Bearded
Father:	Arnold II +* (961-987)
Mother:	Rosele +* (962-1003)
Birth	0980	Flanders, Belgium
Occupation		Count of Flanders
Title	frm 0988 to 30 May 1035 (age 7-55)	Count of Flanders
Death	30 May 1035 (age 54-55)

Wife: Eleanore of NORMANDY

Name:	Eleanore of NORMANDY
Sex:	Female
Father:	Richard II * + (970-1026)
Mother:	Judith * + of BRITTANY (982-1017)
Birth	1011
Death	aft 1071 (age 59-60)	Flanders, Belgium

Child 1: Judith +

Note on Husband: Baldwin IV +*

Baldwin IV of Flanders (980 – May 30, 1035[1]),[2] known as the Bearded, was Count of Flanders from 988 until his death. He was the son of Arnulf II, Count of Flanders. His mother was Rozala of Lombardy.

[edit] History

 

In contrast to his predecessors Baldwin turned his attention to the east and north, leaving the southern part of his territory in the hands of his vassals the counts of Guînes, Hesdin, and St. Pol.

 

To the north of the county Baldwin was given Zeeland as a fief by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II, while on the right bank of the Scheldt river he received Valenciennes (1013) and parts of the Cambresis and Hainaut.

 

In the French territories of the count of Flanders, the supremacy of the Baldwin remained unchallenged. They organized a great deal of colonization of marshland along the coastline of Flanders and enlarged the harbour and city of Brugge.

[edit] Family

 

Baldwin first married Ogive of Luxembourg, daughter of Frederick of Luxembourg, by whom he had a son and heir Baldwin V.

 

He later married Eleanor of Normandy, daughter of Richard II of Normandy, by whom he had at least one daughter Judith who married Tostig Godwinson and Welf I, Duke of Bavaria.

 

His granddaughter, Matilda of Flanders, would go on to marry William the Conqueror, therefore starting the line of Anglo-Norman Kings of England.

Note on Wife: Eleanore of NORMANDY

Eleanor of Normandy (1011/13 – after 1071) was a Norman noblewoman and the daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy. She was born between the years 1011 and 1013 in Normandy, the daughter of Richard and his wife Judith of Brittany. She had two sisters and three brothers including Robert I, Duke of Normandy, whose illegitimate son was William the Conqueror a.k.a. King William I of England. In 1017, when Eleanor was still a child, her mother Judith died. Duke Richard married secondly Poppa of Envermeu, by whom he had two more sons.

 

In 1031 she married, as his second wife, Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, who was about 30 years her senior. He had a son and heir, Baldwin, by his first marriage to Ogive of Luxembourg. Eleanor was styled Countess of Flanders upon her marriage to Baldwin, and together they had one daughter:[1]

 

Judith (1033 – 5 March 1094), married firstly Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumbria, by whom she allegedly had issue; and secondly Welf I, Duke of Bavaria, by whom she had surviving issue.

 

Eleanor died in Flanders sometime after 1071. Her husband had died in 1035, two years after the birth of their only child.

 

Despite her common nomenclature it is not certain that Eleanor was her proper name.[2] Eleanor of Aquitaine, who lived a century later (and married as her second husband Henry II of England, the great-great-grandson of Eleanor of Normandy's brother Robert), is the first individual in recorded history known to bear the name Eleanor.