Re: Roeulx - two places & two familes


"Roger LeBlanc" <leblancr@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On the subject of Hainaut and Flanders, they were united in the person of
Baldwin VI, succeeding to Flanders after his father's death (1067), and
acquiring Hainaut by his marriage to Richilde (circa 1052), who if I'm not
mistaken is believed to be the widow of the former count, and not the
biological heiress.

I was wondering what the current situation is regarding her ancestry. Is
she not thought to be a relative of the counts of Egisheim, -the family of
Pope Leo IX, whose pontificate bracketed the date of her marriage to
Baldwin VI?

I'm not aware of any new developments in this question - it was discussed,
with helpful contributions from Thierry Stasser, in January 2004, see

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GEN-MEDIEVAL/2004-01/1073818080

and the thread around this.

Balduin VI held both Hainaut (from 1057, in right of his wife Richilde as
widow of the last count & mother of the putative heir who soon went into the
Church instead of succeeding) and Flanders (from his father's death in
1067). But this arrangement lasted only a few years - Balduin VI died in
1070, and was succeeded by his elder son Arnulf III, known as Infelix (the
Unfortunate), who was killed in battle seven months later. Then Arnulf's
younger brother Balduin became count of Hainaut while their uncle (Balduin
VI's brother) Robert Friso became count of Flanders.

Peter Stewart


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