*Baudouin I (Baldwin) "Bras-de-Fer" Count of Flanders
born about 0837/40 Flanders, Belgium
died 0879

father:
*Odoscer (Odacre) of Flanders
born about 0810 Flanders, Nord Dept., France

mother:
unknown

siblings:
*Ignode de Harlebec de Flanders born about 0840 Flanders, France

spouse:
*Judith Princess of France
born 0844 France
died after 0870
married about 0859 Flandres, Austrasia

children:
*Baudouin II (Baldwin) "the Bald" Count of Flanders
born about 0864 Flanders, Nord, France
died 10 September 0918
*Widnille Countess of Flanders born about 0865 Flanders, Belgium
*Rudolph (Raoul) Count of Cambrai born 0867 Flanders died 17 June 0896

biographical and/or anecdotal:
Baldwin "Iron Arm" 1st Count Of Flanders, the first ruler of Flanders. A daring warrior under Charles II the Bald of France, he fell in love with the King's daughter Judith, the youthful widow of two English kings, married her (862), and fled with his bride to Lorraine. Charles, though at first angry, was at last conciliated, and made his son-in-law margrave of Flanders (864), which he held as a hereditary fief. The Norsemen were at this time continually devastating the coast lands, and Baldwin was entrusted with this outlying borderland in order to defend it. He was the first of a line of strong rulers, who early in the 10th century exchanged the title of margrave for that of count.
notes or source:
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