BAUDOUIN IV ap ARNOUL II
'Barbatus' Sixth Count of Flanders
| BIRTH: 980 in Flanders, France DEATH: 30 May 1035 in Flanders, France BURIAL: FATHER: Arnoul II ap BAUDOUIN III de Flanders - 946 Luxembourg, Belgium MOTHER: Rozela 'Susanna' verch BERENGAR II of Italy - BIRTH: Abt 945 in Luxembourg, Belgium
FIRST MARRIAGE: 1012 - Ogive (Otiva) de Luxembourg in Flanders, France 1. Baudouin V ap BAUDOUIN IV - 1000 in Flanders, France 2. Ermengarde De Flanders verch BAUDOUIN IV - Abt 1005 in Gand, East Vlaanderen, Belgium
SECOND MARRIAGE: Abt 1032 - Eleanore de Normandy SANS PEUR in Flanders, Normandy, France CHILD: 3. Judith Fausta verch BAUDOUIN IV - 1034 in Flanders, France
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BIRTH: 986 in
He was Count of Flanders from 988 until his death in 1035.
He turned his attention to the east and north where he was given Zeeland
as a fief by the Holy Roman Emperor Henry II. On the right bank of the
Scheldt river he received Valenciennes (1013) and parts of the
Cambresis and Hainaut.
Ogive of Luxembourg, was his first wife. By her he had a son and heir
Baldwin V. After her death in 1030 he married Eleanor of Normandy,
daughter of Richard II of Normandy, and by her he had a daughter Judith.
Judith married Tostig Godwinson, Earl of Northumberland.
These family connections demonstrate the political interests of the Flemish
counts, both in the Kingdom of France, England and the Holy Roman Empire.
"Tostig, Earl of Northumbria", Dictionary of National Biography, vol.19, pp.998–1001.