Baldwin IV Fair Beard De Flanders

  General Notes:

Born: Cir 980
Marriage: (1): Otgiva of Luxembourg circa 1012
Marriage: (2): Eleanor "Eleanora" of Normandy after 1031
Died: 30 May 1035 at age 55
Other names for Baldwin were Baldwin the Bearded, Baudouin le Barbu and Boudewijn de Schone Baard.
General Notes:
Count of Flanders (988-1035) who greatly expanded the Flemish dominions. He fought successfully both against the Capetian king of France, Robert II, and the Holy Roman emperor Henry II. Henry found himself obliged to grant to Baldwin IV in fief Valenciennes, the burgraveship of Ghent, the land of Waes, and Zeeland. The count of Flanders thus became a feudatory of the empire as well as of the French crown. The French fiefs are known in Flemish history as Crown Flanders (Kroon-Vlaanderen), the German fiefs as Imperial Flanders (Rijks-Vlaanderen). Baldwin's son--afterwards Baldwin V--rebelled in 1028 against his father at the instigation of his wife Adela, daughter of Robert II of France; but two years later peace was sworn at Oudenaarde, and the old count continued to reign until his death.From Tore Nygaard:Balduin IV le Barbu av Flandern. Balduin "den Skjeggete" var greve av Flandern 987-1036.Han bemektiget seg Valenciennes og kom derved i strid med keiser Konrad II av Tyskland. Han var imidlertid heldig i kampene og ervervet seg endel besittelser på høyre Seine-bredd i nærheten av Gent samt de Zeelandske øyer. Etter den tid skiller man mellom det egentlige Flandern, Kronflandern som var et fransk len og Riksflandern som grevene hadde til len av det tyske rike.Balduin var første gang gift ca. 1012 med Otgiva av Luxemburg (995-1031). Han var annen gang gift etter 1031 med Eleonore(?) av Normandie, født ca. 1010. Hun var datter til Richard II "den Gode" av Normandie som døde 23.08.1027 og Judith av Bretagne (ca. 982-1017).Baldvin V var hans sønn i ekteskapet med Otgiva. Hans datter, Judith av Flandern, skal være født i 1028 eller 1033, hvilket gjør at det er usikkert hvem som var hennes mor.
Noted events in his life were:
• Acceded: 988. Count of Flanders
Baldwin married Otgiva of Luxembourg, daughter of Friedrich of Luxemburg and Ermentrud of Wetterau, circa 1012. (Otgiva of Luxembourg was born circa 995 and died on 21 Feb 1030.)

Baldwin married Otgiva of Luxembourg, daughter of Friedrich of Luxembourg and Ermentrud of Wetterau, about 1011. (Otgiva of Luxembourg was born about 995 and died on 21 Feb 1030.)

Baldwin next married Eleanor "Eleanora" of Normandy, daughter of Duke Richard II the Good of Normandy and Judith (de Rennes) of Brittany, after 1031. (Eleanor "Eleanora" of Normandy was born about 1010.)