Count Baldwin II

  General Notes:

At the time of his succession he was a minor, and Robert, the Frisian, Duke of Flanders, seized Hainault, but Emperor Henry IV finally forced Robert to return Hainault to the legitimate heir. Baldwin II embarked on the pilgrimage of the Crusade in 1096, and at the Siege of Antioch, 1098, he was sent with Hugh Magnus to announce the news to Emperor Alexis Commenens, and to invite him to aid the crusaders in taking Jerusalem. On the road near Nicea, however, the party fell into the hands of the Turks. Hugh Magnus, leader of the First Crusade, escaped, but Baldwin was captured and never heard of again. Baldwin II married 1084 Ida or Alex, daughter of Henry II, Count of Louvain. In 1099 she went to Rome to try to obtain news of her husband; the Pope, who could tell her nothing, tried to console her, and sent her back to Hainault, where she died 1139.
Children: Baldwin III, Arnould, Ida, Richilde and Alix.

  Noted events in his life were:

� He worked as a Count Of Hainault.

Baldwin married Ida Of Louvain. (Ida Of Louvain was born in 1065 and died in 1139.)