III.--Genealogical Table of the Counts of Flanders from Baldwin VIII. to Guy de Dampierre. =Baldwin VIII.= _d._ 1195 = =Marguerite= _d._ 1194 +--------------------------+----------+--------+----------------+ =Baldwin IX.= = Marie Philip = Marie Elizabeth = Philip Sybil = Guichard, (of Constan- | of of of | Augustus, Lord of tinople) | Champa- Namur France | King of Beaujeu _d._ 1206 | gne | France or 1226 | | _d._ 1223 | +---------------------+ +----+--------------------------------------+ | =Jeanne=, Countess = Ferdinand Bourchard = =Marguerite= = William Louis VIII. of Flanders and of Portugal d'Avesnes | Countess of | of _d._ 1226 Hainault | Flanders and | Dampierre | _d._ 1244 | Hainault | | | _d._ 1279 | | +---------------------------------+--+ +-----+--+ | John I., Count = Alix daughter and Baldwin William Guy, Louis IX. of Hainault | heiress of Florence, _d._ 1251 Count of (St Louis) _d._ 1255 | Countess of Holland Flanders _d_ 1270 | _d._ 1304 | John II. of Philip III. Hainault _d._ 1285 and Holland | _d._ 1304 | Philip IV. (le Bel) _d._ 1314 which dragged on for fifteen years, during which time Philippe himself was gathered to his fathers, nor was it until May 20, 1320, that terms of peace were at length agreed upon. [Illustration: A 14th Century Chimney] CHAPTER XVI _The Great Charter--The Belfry and the Tower of Notre Dame_