The families of the Counts of Flanders, Hainaut &
Holland
This will be a genealogical account of the Counts of
Part 1.The Counts of
Part 2.The Counts of
Part 3.The Family d'Avesnes, including
the Counts of
Part 4.The family Dampierre-sur-l'Aube.
Part 5.The Counts of
Part 6.The illegitimate descendants of
Ct Louis II of
Parts 7 and 8.The illegitimate
descendants of Ct Jean of
Part 9.The family de Werchin,
illegitimate descendants of Ct
Part 1
Ct Baldwin I of
1a) Baldwin II "the Bald", Ct of
1b) Arnulf I "the
Great", Ct of
1c) Ekbert, d.ca 953
2c) Baldwin III, 958 co-count
of
1d) Arnulf II, Ct of
1e) Baldwin IV, Ct of
1f) Baldwin V, Ct of Flanders,
Regent of
1g) Baldwin VI & I, Ct of
Flanders and Hainaut, Margrave of Antwerp (ca 1030-17 Jul 1070); m.ca 1055
Richilde, heiress of Hainaut (d.15 Mar 1086) dau.of Ct von Egisheim, widow of
Ct Hermann of Hainaut [NOTE: some sources hold that Richilde was daughter of Ct
Reginar V of Hainaut, instead of daughter-in-law; however, since Ct Hermann,
her husband, left only two childless children who were in the church, and had
few other close relatives, it would not have been unusual for his widow to
inherit Hainaut and pass it to her issue by her 2nd marriage]
1h) Arnulf III, Ct of
2h) Baldwin II, Ct of
3h) Agnes, living 1071
2g) Robert I "the
Frisian", Ct of
1h) Robert II, Ct of
1i) Baldwin
2i) William (1094-1109)
3i) a son, b.1095, d.young
2h) Philipp van Loo, d.ca 1127
1i) [illegitimate] William of
"
3h)
4h) Adela (ca 1065-Apr 1115);
m.1st after 1080 King Knut II of
1i) Charles "the
Good", Ct of
5h) Gertrud; m.1st Ct
Henry III of Louvaine (d.1095); m.2nd 1095/6 Duke Dietrich II of
Upper Lorraine (d.1115); her son by her 2nd marriage became Ct
Dietrich [or Thierry] I of Flanders in 1128; his family ruled there until 1191,
when his daughter Margareta, wife of Ct Baldwin V of Hainaut, became Css of
Flanders and returned it to the Hainaut line
6h) Otgiva, Abbess of Messines,
living 1127
3g) Matilda (ca 1032-3 Nov
1083); m.1053 King William I of
2e) Matilda, d.ca 995
3c) Hildegard, b.ca 934, d.990;
m.940/5 Ct Dietrich II of
4c) Liutgard (935-962); m.ca
950 Ct Wichmann von Hamaland (d.after
5c) Elftrude; m.Siegfried, sn de Guines (d.ca 965)
2b) Adalolf, Cte de
Boulogne-sur-Mer et de Therouanne 918
3b) Ealswid
4b) Ermentrude
2a) Rudolf, Cte de Cambrai, d.896
1b) a dau., m.Isaac, Cte de
Cambrai (d.ca 948)
3a) ? Guinidilde;
m.Ct Guifredo of Urgel?