Count Baldwin FLANDERS, II
- Born: Abt 863-864, , Flanders, Belgium
- Married: Abt 888-889
- Died: 10 Sep 918
Other names for Baldwin were Baudouin and FLANDERS Count.
Ancestral File Number: 9GCX-DB. User ID: 9681789248.
General Notes:
Count of FLANDERS.
BOOKS Barber Grandparents: 125 Kings, 143 Generations, Ted Butler Bernard and Gertrude Barber Bernard, 1978, McKinney TX, p79: "314Z Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, (S of 302, F of 326); married Ethelwida."
Kings and Queens of Great Britain, Genealogical Chart, Anne Taute and Romilly Squire, Taute, 1990: "Aethelbald King of Wessex 856-860, Mar (2) Judith his stepmother =iii Baldwin I Count of Flanders...Baldwin II Count of Flanders, Son of Aethelbald and Judith, Mar Aelfthryth Daughter of King Alfred, Died 918."
Encyclopaedia Britannica 1981 Macropaedia, Vol VII, p613, France History of: "Northernmost of the principal territories of France outside of the royal domain centered around Paris was Flanders, where the Carolingian King Charles the Bald installed his brother-in- law, Baldwin Iron Arm, as Count in 862. Under Bald- win's successors, Baldwin II (879-918), Arnulf (918-963), Arnulf II (965-988), Baldwin IV (988-1035), Baldwin V (1036-1067), and Baldwin VI (1067-1070), the county, which included part of what is now Belgium, was gradually extended eastward..."
ANCESTRAL FILE Ancestral File Ver 4.11 9GCX-DB Born Abt 863 Mar Abt ?839< 889, Ver 4.13 Born Abt 864.
Marriage Information:
Baldwin married Countess Elfrida FLANDERS, daughter of King Alfred Wessex ENGLAND and Queen Ealhswyth ENGLAND, about 888-889. (Countess Elfrida FLANDERS was born about 865-877 in , Wessex, England and died in 920-929.)
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