Baudouin III "le Jeune" comté de Flanders
- Born: Abt 933, Flanders
- Marriage: Mathilda of Saxony 529
- Died: 1 Nov 962, Flanders about age 29 529
 Other names for Baudouin were Baldwin III "the Young" Count of Flanders and Boudewijn III, Graaf van Vlaanderen.
General Notes:
~Emperor Charlemagnes Descendents, vol. II, p. 185 529
~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 8th Edition, 162:19, Balwin III, count of Flanders, b. abt. 940, d. 1 Jan 961/2; m. abt 961, Mathide of Saxony, d. 25 May 1008, daughter of Herman Billung, Duke of Saxony. 160
Noted events in his life were:
• Web Reference:
Charles Cawley's Medieval Lands Baudouin de Flandres was the son of Arnoul de Flandre and his second wife, Adela de Vermandois. "His parentage is specified in the Cartulaire de Saint-Bertin [Saint-Bertin II.76, 938, p. 141]. "…Baldwini filii Arnulfi marchysi…" signed the charter dated 8 Jul 941 under which "Arnulfus…regis…marchysus" restored property to Saint-Pierre de Gand [Liber traditionum sancti Petri Blandiniensis, 65, p. 68]. "Mathilda Saxonici generic" is named as wife of Count Baudouin in the Cartulaire de Saint-Bertin [Saint-Bertin II.78, p. 153]. The Annalista Saxo names (in order) "Bennonis ducis, qui et Bernhardus et Liudigeri comitis et Machtildis comitisse" as brothers and sister of "domna Suanehildis (filia) Herimanni ducis de Liuniburh", recording the names of Mechtild's two husbands [Annalista Saxo 1002]. The Annales Egmundani record the death in 962 of "Baldwinus filius Arnulfi marchisi Flandrensium" [Annales Egmundani 962, MGH SS XVI, p. 445].
Baudouin married Mathilda of Saxony, daughter of Hermann Billung Duke of Saxony and Unknown.529 (Mathilda of Saxony was born in 958 in Saxony and died on 28 May 1008 in Flanders 529.)
|
