Family of Baldwin V + * of FLANDERS and Adela +* CAPET

Husband:	Baldwin V + * of FLANDERS (1012-1067)
Wife:	Adela +* CAPET (1003-1079)
Children:	Robert I + (1029-1093)
	Baldwin VI + (1030-1070)
	Mathilda * +of FLANDERS (1031-1083)
	Henry of FLANDERS (1035- )
	Richard I of FLANDERS (1050- )
Marriage	1028	Paris, Seine, Ile-de France,France

Husband: Baldwin V + * of FLANDERS

Wife: Adela +* CAPET

Name:	Adela +* CAPET
Sex:	Female
Father:	Robert II +* (972-1031)
Mother:	Constance + * of ARLES (986-1034)
Birth	1003	France
Occupation		Princess of France
Title		Princess of France
Death	8 Jan 1079 (age 75-76)	Monastery de l'Ordrecle, St.Benoist,France
Alternate Name		Advisa

Child 1: Robert I +

Child 2: Baldwin VI +

Name:	Baldwin VI +
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Richilde + of HAINAULT (1031-1086)
Birth	1030	Flanders, Belgium
Occupation		Count of Flandres and Hainault
Title	frm 1051 to 1070 (age 20-40)	Count of Hainaut
	as Baldwin I
Title	frm 1051 to 1070 (age 20-40)	Count of Mons
Title	frm 1067 to 1070 (age 36-40)	Count of Flandres
Death	17 Jul 1070 (age 39-40)	Flanders, Belgium

Child 3: Mathilda * +of FLANDERS

Child 4: Henry of FLANDERS

Name:	Henry of FLANDERS
Sex:	Male
Birth	1035

Child 5: Richard I of FLANDERS

Name:	Richard I of FLANDERS
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	unknown ( - )
Birth	1050

Note on Husband: Baldwin V + * of FLANDERS

Baldwin V of Flanders (c. 1012 – 1 September 1067) was Count of Flanders from 1035 until his death.

 

He was the son of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, who died in 1035.

 

In 1028 Baldwin married Adèle of France in Amiens, daughter of King Robert II of France; at her instigation he rebelled against his father but in 1030 peace was sworn and the old count continued to rule until his death.

 

During a long war (1046–1056) as an ally of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lorraine, against the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, he initially lost Valenciennes to Hermann of Hainaut. However, when the latter died in 1051 Baldwin married his son Baldwin VI to Herman's widow Richildis and arranged that the sons of her first marriage were disinherited, thus de facto uniting the County of Hainaut with Flanders. Upon the death of Henry III this marriage was acknowledged by treaty by Agnes de Poitou, mother and regent of Henry IV. Baldwin V played host to a grateful dowager queen Emma of England, during her enforced exile, at Bruges. He supplied armed security guards, entertainment, comprising a band of minstrels. Bruges was a bustling commercial centre, and Emma fittingly grateful to the citizens. She dispensed generously to the poor, making contact with the monastery of Saint Bertin at St Omer, and received her son, King Harthacnut of England at Bruges in 1039.[1]

 

From 1060 to 1067 Baldwin was the co-Regent with Anne of Kiev for his nephew-by-marriage Philip I of France, indicating the importance he had acquired in international politics. As Count of Maine, Baldwin supported the King of France in most affairs. But he was also father-in-law to William of Normandy, who had married his daughter Matilda. Flanders played a pivotal role in Edward the Confessor's foreign policy. As the King of England was struggling to find an heir: historians have argued that he may have sent Harold Godwinsson to negotiate the return of Edward the Atheling from Hungary, and passed through Flanders, on his way to Germany.[2] Baldwin's half-sister had married scheming Earl Godwin's third son, Tostig. The half-Viking Godwinsons had spent their exile in Dublin, at a time William of Normandy was fiercely defending his duchy. It is unlikely however that Baldwin intervened to prevent the duke's invasion plans of England, after the Count had lost the conquered province of Ponthieu.[3] By 1066, Baldwin was an old man, and died the following year.

 

[edit] FamilyBaldwin and Adèle had five children:

 

Baldwin VI, 1030-1070

Matilda, c.1031-1083 who married William the Conqueror

Robert I of Flanders, c.1033–1093

Henry of Flanders c.1035

poss. Sir Richard of Flanders c. 1050-1105

Note on Wife: Adela +* CAPET

Adela Capet, Adèle of France or Adela of Flanders[1], known also as Adela the Holy or Adela of Messines; (1009 – 8 January 1079, Messines) was the second daughter of Robert II (the Pious), and Constance of Arles. As dowry to her future husband, she received from her father the title of Countess of Corbie.

She was a member of the House of Capet, the rulers of France. As the wife of Baldwin V, she was Countess of Flanders from 1036 to 1067.

 

She married first 1027 Richard III Duke of Normandy (997 † 1027). They never had children. As a widow, she remarried in 1028 in Paris to Baldwin V of Flanders (1012 † 1067). Their children were:

 

Baldwin VI of Flanders, (1030 † 1070)

Matilda of Flanders (1032 † 1083). In 1053 she married William Duke of Normandy, the future king of England

Robert I of Flanders, (1033-1093)

Henry of Flanders (c. 1035)

Sir Richard of Flanders (c. 1050-1105)

 

[edit] Political influence

 

Adèle’s influence lay mainly in her family connections. On the death of her brother, Henry I of France, the guardianship of his seven-year-old son Philip I fell jointly on his widow, Ann of Kiev, and on his brother-in-law, Adela's husband, so that from 1060 to 1067, they were Regents of France.

[edit] Battle of Cassel (1071)

 

When Adela's third son, Robert the Frisian, was to invade Flanders in 1071 to become the new count (at that time the count was Adela's grandson, Arnulf III), she asked Philip I to stop him. Philip sent troops in order to aid Arnulf, being among the forces sent by the king a contingent of ten Norman knights led by William FitzOsborn. Robert's forces attacked Arnulf's numerically superior army at Cassel before it could organize, and Arnulf himself was killed along with William FitzOsborn. The overwhelming triumph of Robert made Philip invest him with Flanders, making the peace. A year later, Philip married Robert's stepdaughter, Bertha of Holland, and in 1074, Philip restored the seigneurie of Corbie to the crown.

[edit] Church influence

 

Adèle had an especially great interest in Baldwin V’s church-reform politics and was behind her husband’s founding of several collegiate