Baudouin V Count of Flanders^[1]

1012 - 1067  (55 years)

• Name	Baudouin V Count of Flanders
  Birth	19 Aug 1012	Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France
  Gender	Male
  Death	1 Sep 1067	Lille, Nord, France
  Burial	Lille, Nord, France
  Person ID	I3613	Master
  Last Modified	24 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Baldwin IV Count of Flanders,   b. 968, , , , Belgium d. 30 May 1036, , , , Belgium (Age 68 years)
  Mother	Otgive De Luxembourg,   b. 986, , , , Belgium d. 21 Feb 1030, , , , Belgium (Age 44 years)
  Marriage	1004	, , , Belgium
  Family ID	F1282	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Adaele Capet,   b. 1009, Toulouse, Languedoc, Haute Garonne, France d. 8 Jan 1079, Monastaere de L'ordre de Saint Benoist, Messines, France (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	1028	Paris, Île-de-France, France
  Children	+ 1. Baldwin VI Count of Flanders and Hainault,   b. 1030, , Flanders, Belgium d. 17 Jul 1070 (Age 40 years) + 2. Matilda Countess Of Flanders Queen Of England,   b. 1031, , Flanders, Belgium d. 2 Nov 1083, Caen, Calvados, Normandy, France (Age 52 years)   3. Robert I Count of Flanders,   b. Abt 1033, , Flanders, Belgium d. 13 Oct 1093, Kassel, Germany (Age 60 years)   4. Henry Count Of Flanders,   b. Abt 1035, , Flanders, Belgium
  Family ID	F1338	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 May 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 19 Aug 1012 - Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France Marriage - 1028 - Paris, Île-de-France, France Death - 1 Sep 1067 - Lille, Nord, France Burial - - Lille, Nord, France  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  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;[1] 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 Herman, Count of Mons. However, when the latter died in 1049 Baldwin married his son Baldwin VI to Herman's widow Richilde[1] and arranged that the children of her first marriage were disinherited, thus de facto uniting the County of Hainaut with Flanders.[2] 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.[3] 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. 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.[4] 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. Baldwin's half-sister had married Earl Godwin's third son, Tostig.[2] 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. Baldwin died 1 September 1067.[4] Family Baldwin and Adèle had: Baldwin VI, 1030–1070[1] Matilda, c. 1031–1083 who married William the Conqueror[1] Robert I of Flanders, c. 1033–1093[1] References: 1. Oksanen 2012, p. xii. 2. Oksanen 2012, p. 12. 3. Oksanen 2012, p. 11. 4. Oksanen 2012, p. 257.

  
  

• Sources

  [S23] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), (Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998).