Osburga=Ethelwolf, King of Wessex (1)[7]=Judith d. of Emperor Charles the Bald=(3) =Baldwin I.= (Bras de Fer)
| _d._ 856 | _d._ 879
+--------+---------------+ |
Alfred the Great Ethelbald of Wessex (2)=Judith d. of Emperor |
|_d._ 901 _d._ 860 Charles the Bald |
+----------------------+-------------------------+ +-----------------------+-----------+
Edward Alfrida==Baldwin II.= (Calvus) Rodulph, Count of Cambrai
_d._ 924 | _d._ 918 |
Edred =Arnulph I.= (the Great) = Adela of Baldwin Baldzo, Regent
_d._ 955 _d._ 964 | Vermandois of Flanders during minority
| of Arnulph II.
|
=Baldwin III.= (reigned during = Matilda of Burgundy
the life of his father from |
957 to 961) _d._ 961 |
+----------------------------------------+
=Arnulph II.==Susanna
_d._ 988 | of Italy
=Baldwin IV.= (Longbeard)=Eleanor of Normandy
_d._ 1036 |
=Baldwin V.= (of Lille)=Ethel of France
_d._ 1067
to death by his own knights as they were pressing on to victory), the
rights of the Karls of Flanders were once more called in question. His
son and successor, Baldwin Hapkin, a youth of eighteen years, was
entirely under the influence of the stern preceptor, whose iron will had
trained him, his father's nephew, Charles of Denmark. In this man's
veins flowed the blood of Canute the Great; the violence and the virtues
of that redoubtable monarch were all his. Added to this, his whole being
was tinged by the ghastly tragedy which had deprived him of a royal
heritage and driven his trembling mother to flee with her infant boy to
Bruges.
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