Awarded County of Flanders by father in law, Charles the Bald 50 pg 158.
Baldwin was the son of Odacre, and had been created first count of Flanders in 862. Baldwin rose to prominence when he eloped with Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald. (Judith had previously been married to Ethelwulf and his son Ethelbald, kings of Wessex.) Charles was not pleased, and he had Baldwin excommunicated. Baldwin responded by traveling to Rome to plead his case to Pope Nicholas I. When this was granted Charles relented and accepted the marriage. To give Baldwin proper status, Charles made him count of Ghent. In the following years Baldwin was also given the counties of Ternois and Flanders.
Baldwin was succeeded by his son by Judith, Baldwin II of Flanders.
Through his descendants Matilda of Flanders and Henry I of England, he was an ancestor to the present-day British royal family including Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and her son Charles, Prince of Wales.
The second count of Flanders. He was also hereditary abbot of St. Bertin from 892 till his death. He was the son of Baldwin I of Flanders and Judith, a daughter of Charles the Bald.
The early years of Baldwin's rule were marked by a series of devastating Viking raids. Little north of the Somme was untouched. Baldwin recovered, building new fortresses and improving city walls, and taking over abandoned property, so that in the end he held far more territory, and held it more strongly, than had his father. He also took advantage of the conflicts between Charles the Simple and Odo, Count of Paris to take over the Ternois and the Boulonnias.
In 884 Baldwin married Aelfthryth (Ælfthryth, Elftrude, Elfrida), a daughter of King Alfred the Great of England. The marriage was motivated by the common Flemish-English opposition to the Vikings, and was the start of an alliance that was a mainstay of Flemish policy for centuries to come.
In 900, he tried to curb the power of Archbishop Fulk of Rheims by assassinating him, but he was excommunicated by Pope Benedict IV.
He died at Blandimberg and was succeeded by his eldest son Arnulf I of Flanders. His younger son Adalulf was the first count of Boulogne.
Carried on a successful war against Etudes, Count of France
Count of Flanders together with his father Arnulf I. He died before his father and was succeeded by his infant son Arnulf II, with his father acting as regent until his own death.
Arnulf I had made Baldwin co-ruler in 958. During his short rule, Baldwin established the weaving and fulling industry in Ghent thus laying the basis for the economical importance of the county in the centuries to come.
In 961 Baldwin married Mathilde of Saxony, by whom he had a son and heir Arnulf II.
Known as the Bearded, was Count of Flanders from 988 until his death. He was the son of Arnulf II of Flanders.
Other than his predecessors Baldwin turned his attention to the east and north, leaving the southern part of his territory in the hands of his vassals the counts of Guines, Hesdin, and St. Pol.
To the north of the county Baldwin was given Zeeland as a fief by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II, while on the right bank of the Scheldt river he received Valenciennes (1013) and parts of the Cambresis and Hainaut.
In the French territories of the count of Flanders, the supremacy of the Baldwini remained unchallenged. They organized a great deal of colonization of marshland along the coastline of Flanders and enlarged the harbour and city of Brugge.
Baldwin first married Ogive of Luxembourg, by whom he had a son and heir Baldwin V. He later married Eleanor of Normandy, daughter of Richard II of Normandy, by whom he had at least one daughter Judith. This daughter married Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumberland.[1] These family connections demonstrate the political interests of the Flemish counts, both in the Kingdom of France, England and the Holy Roman Empire.
His granddaughter, Matilda of Flanders, would go on to marry William the Conqueror, therefore starting the line of Anglo-Norman Kings of England.
Wives differ per source, McBride has #3 as Orgina of Moselle
He was the son of Baldwin IV of Flanders, who died in 1035. He, in turn, is a descendant of Elfrida (d. 949), daughter of Alfred the Great, Saxon King of England.
In 1028 Baldwin married Adela (Alix), daughter of King Robert II of France; at her instigation he rebelled against his father but in 1030 peace was sworn and the old count continued to rule until his death.
During a long war (1046–1056) as an ally of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lorraine, against the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, he initially lost Valenciennes to Hermann of Hainaut. However, when the latter died in 1049 Baldwin married his son Baldwin VI to Herman's widow Richildis and arranged that the sons of her first marriage were disinherited, thus de facto uniting the Count of Hainaut with Flanders. Upon the death of Henry III this marriage was acknowledged by treaty by Agnes de Poitou, mother and regent of Henry IV.
From 1060 to 1067 Baldwin was the guardian for his nephew-by-marriage Philip I of France, indicating the importance he had acquired in international politics.
Baldwin and Adela had four children.
Founder of the Macedonian dynasty c/o purely Greek monarchy. Of Armenian extraction but born in Macedonia. Intelligent, firm orderly ruler, restored empire, rebuilt army and navy, revised legal system.
50 pg 178
Zoe's husband may have been Basil I or Michael III, some references to Basil being her husband and Michael her lover. Murdered Bardas, brother of Theodora, mother and regent of Michael III, Byzantine Emperor. Ordered Michael killed.
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According to legend, originated probably by Photios, the family was descended by the Arsacids. His parents were in fact, simple peasants, and Basil advanced rapidly because of his boldness and extraordinary strength. Basil murdered his rival, Caesar Bardas in 865, and then his protector Michael III in 867, whose former mistress Eudokia Ingerina was Basil's wife.
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (1991), vol.2, p.1262
Timothy E. Gregory @ Ohio State University
More at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_I_the_Macedonian
Though Shirley Bull reports that a letter written in 1934 by Florence LeClear Bradley reports that Abigale was born in Holland.
Baldwin VI of Flanders (1030 – July 17, 1070) was briefly Count of Flanders, from 1067 to 1070. He was also (as Baldwin I) count of Hainaut from 1051 to 1070.
He was the eldest son of Baldwin V of Flanders and Adela Capet, a daughter of king Robert II of France.
In 1051 he married Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut, widow of count Hermann of Mons. By this marriage Flanders took control of the county Hainaut (at that moment still a conglomerate of the county of Mons, the margraviate of Valenciennes and the southern county out of the Brabant shire).
Baldwin's early death left Flanders and Hainaut in the hands of his young son Arnulf III, with Richilde as regent. The countship was soon usurped by Baldwin's brother Robert the Frisian, who became count Robert I of Flanders. The young Arnulf III was killed the next year at the Battle of Cassel and Baldwin's younger son eventually became Baldwin II of Hainaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_VI%2C_Count_of_Flanders
Baldwin II of Mons (1056–1098) was count of Hainaut from 1071 to his death. He was the younger son of Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders and Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut.
Baldwin became Count after the death of his older brother, Arnulf III, Count of Flanders. The family claim to the title Count of Flanders was lost by his brother's death, passing instead to their uncle Robert the Frisian.
Baldwin joined the First Crusade in the company of Godfrey of Bouillon (rather than with Robert II of Flanders, whose family was still at odds with his own), after selling some of his property to the Bishopric of Liège. In 1098 he was sent back to Constantinople with Hugh of Vermandois after the siege of Antioch, to seek assistance from Byzantine emperor Alexius I. However, Baldwin disappeared during a raid by the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia, and was presumably killed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_II%2C_Count_of_Hainaut