Countess Marguerite De Alsace Lorraine FLANDERS

   Another name for Marguerite was FLANDERS Countess.

   Ancestral File Number: 9GB9-93. User ID: 75639379.

   General Notes:

Countess of FLANDERS.

BOOKS
The Political History of England, Vol II, George Burton Adams Longmans Green and Co, 1905, Ch XVIII
p382: [1197] "...The young Count Baldwin of Flanders and Hainault had grievances of his own against Philip which he was anxious to avenge. Count Philip, who had exercised so strong an influence over King Philip at the time of his accession, had died early in the crusade, and the Count of Hainault on succeeding him had been compelled to give up to France a large strip of territory adjoining [Count] Philip's earlier annexation, and on hisdeath Count Baldwin had had to pay a heavy relief..."

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1981, Macropaedia, Vol XIV, p221, Philip II Augustus: "...Philip, on April 28, 1180, married Isabella, the daughter of Baldwin V of Hainaut and the niece (throughher mother) of Philip of Alsace the count of Flanders, who promised to give the King the territory of Artois as her dowry.."

ANCESTRAL FILE
Ancestral File Ver 4.13 9GB9-93 Marguerite De LORRAINE [COUNTESS OF FLANDERS] Born Abt 1135 Alsace France Mar Apr 1169 Baudouin VIII (V) Count of FLANDERS & HAINAULT (AFN:91R3-66) Died 15 Nov 1194.

   Marriage Information:

Marguerite married Count Baldwin HAINAULT, V, son of Count Baldwin HAINAULT, IV and Countess Alix De Namur HAINAULT, in Apr 1169. (Count Baldwin HAINAULT, V was born in 1150 in , Hainault, Belgium and died on 17 Dec 1195 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium.)

   Marriage Information:

Marguerite also married Count Raoul VERMANDOIS, II.