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Birth:          19 Aug 1012 Arras, Flanders
Death:          1 Sep 1067 Lille, France

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_V,_Count_of_Flanders
Baldwin V of Flanders (19 August 1012, Arras, Flanders[1] – 1 September 1067, Lille, 
Flanders[1]) was Count of Flanders from 1035 until his death.

He was the son of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, who died in 1035.
History[edit]

In 1028 Baldwin married Adèle of France in Amiens, 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 Herman, 
Count of Mons. However, when the latter died in 1049 Baldwin married his son 
Baldwin VI to Herman's widow Richilde and arranged that the children of her first 
marriage were disinherited, thus de facto uniting the County 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. Baldwin V played host to a grateful dowager 
queen Emma of England, during her enforced exile, at Bruges. He supplied armed 
security guards, entertainment, comprising a band of minstrels. Bruges was a bustling 
commercial centre, and Emma fittingly grateful to the citizens. She dispensed 
generously to the poor, making contact with the monastery of Saint Bertin at St Omer, 
and received her son, King Harthacnut of England at Bruges in 1039.[2]

From 1060 to 1067 Baldwin was the co-Regent with Anne of Kiev for his nephew-by-
marriage Philip I of France, indicating the importance he had acquired in international 
politics. As Count of Maine, Baldwin supported the King of France in most affairs. But 
he was also father-in-law to William of Normandy, who had married his daughter 
Matilda. Flanders played a pivotal role in Edward the Confessor's foreign policy. As the 
King of England was struggling to find an heir: historians have argued that he may 
have sent Harold Godwinsson to negotiate the return of Edward the Atheling from 
Hungary, and passed through Flanders, on his way to Germany.[3] Baldwin's half-sister 
had married Earl Godwin's third son, Tostig. The half-Viking Godwinsons had spent 
their exile in Dublin, at a time William of Normandy was fiercely defending his duchy. It 
is unlikely however that Baldwin intervened to prevent the duke's invasion plans of 
England, after the Count had lost the conquered province of Ponthieu.[4] By 1066, 
Baldwin was an old man, and died the following year.

Family[edit]

Baldwin and Adèle are known to have had three children :[1]
Baldwin VI, 1030–1070
Matilda, c. 1031–1083 who married William the Conqueror
Robert I of Flanders, c. 1033–1093

Some researchers, including Frederick Clifton Pierce and Sir Charles Oman, believe 
that there was a fourth child — Richard the Forester, who participated in the Battle of 
Hastings with his brother-in-law, William the Conqueror, and who later received a grant 
of the future site of Kenilworth Castle.[5] But this belief is not accepted by the other 
historians, including Charles Cawley of Medieval Lands and Stewart Baldwin of The 
Henry Project.[1][6] An older source of the wording in Frederick Clifton Pierce's book 
can be found word for word in a book called "The Irish Chieftains, a Struggle for the 
Crown" by Charles Ffrench Blake-Forster

Parents
DE LILLE Baldwin IV ( 980 - 30 May 1035)
DE LUXEMBOURG Ogiva (ABT  990 - 21 Feb 1030)

Siblings
DE LILLE Baldwin V (19 Aug 1012 - 1 Sep 1067)
DE FLANDERS Ermengarde (ABT 1013 - )

Marriage To ____ Adela (Adele) (Alix) (Adelaide) (ABT 1009 - 1079)
    m. 1028 her 2d

Notes

Parents
____ Robert II "the Pious" (27 Mar  972 - 20 Jul 1031)
OF ARLES, PROVENCE AND TOULOUSE Constance (ABT  975 - 28 Jul 1032)

Children by ____ Adela (Adele) (Alix) (Adelaide) ABT 1009 - 1079
OF FLANDERS Maud (Matilda) (1028 - 2 Nov 1083)
____ Baldwin VI (I) (1030 - 17 Jul 1070)
____ Robert (Robrecht) I "de Fries" ("the Frisian") (ABT 1033 - 3 Oct 1093)

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