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BAUDOUIN, Count Baldwin I
835 - 879 (43 years) 
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Name BAUDOUIN, Baldwin Prefix Count Suffix I Birth Aug 835 Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France 
Gender Male _TAG Reviewed on FS Death 2 Jan 879 Saint-Omer, Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Burial 19 Feb 879 St. Pierres Abbey, Grand Arris Headstones 
Submit Headstone Photo Person ID I69150 Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith Last Modified 19 Aug 2021
Family FRANKS, Judith , b. Oct 844, Orléans, Loiret, Centre, France Orléans, Loiret, Centre, Franced. Aft 870, Auxerre, Yonne, Bourgogne, France (Age > 27 years) Marriage 7 Dec 862 Auxerre, 89024, Yonne, Bourgogne, France Notes - MARRIAGE: Also shown as Married Flandres, Austrasia, France.
Children 1. FLANDERS, Count Baudouin II , b. 864, , Flanders, Nord, France Flanders, Nord, Franced. 10 Sep 918, Ghent, Flanders, Belgium (Age 54 years)Family ID F32984 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 24 Jan 2022
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Notes - Baldwin I of the Iron Arm became the first Count of Flanders. Baldwin visited Judith in a secret assisted by Louis the Stammerer and soon Baldwin and Judith eloped and fled to Lorraine. In his rage, her father, King Charles, incited the bishops of France to excommunicate Baldwin. Baldwin went to Rome and sought assistance from Pope Nicholas the First, who intervened with her parents on behalf of the couple. Charles and his daughter were at last conciliated, and her marriage was celebrated (according to civil law) with much splendor at Auxerre, France, in 863. Judith's father, however, did not attend the ceremony. Charles made his son-in-law margrave of Flanders in 864, which Baldwin held as a hereditary fief. On his return to Flanders, Baldwin built a great fortress on an island formed by the intersection of the River Roya with its little tributary, the Boterbeke. This was called the Bourg, and soon contained within its strong walls the nucleus of the future city of Bruges. The Flemings, people living in that area, were descended from the Franks, Germanic tribes who invaded Flanders in the A.D. 400's. The invasions forced the Celtic people in the area to move south. The Norsemen were at this time continually devastating the coastlands, and Baldwin was entrusted with this outlying borderland in order to defend it. He was the first of a line of strong rulers, who early in the 10th century, exchanged the title of margrave for that of count. Although never crowned as kings, the Counts of Flanders (at this time) were absolute rulers.
A daring warrior under Charles II, he fell in love with the King's daughter Judith, the youthful widow of 2 English kings, married her, and fled with his bride to Lorraine. At first angry, Charles eventually forgave him and made him Margrave of Flanders-changed to Count in the 10th century. Encyclopedia Britannica for Baldwin I.
From Jim Weber (jim.weber65@gmail.com) (http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I00838)
- Baldwin I of the Iron Arm became the first Count of Flanders. Baldwin visited Judith in a secret assisted by Louis the Stammerer and soon Baldwin and Judith eloped and fled to Lorraine. In his rage, her father, King Charles, incited the bishops of France to excommunicate Baldwin. Baldwin went to Rome and sought assistance from Pope Nicholas the First, who intervened with her parents on behalf of the couple. Charles and his daughter were at last conciliated, and her marriage was celebrated (according to civil law) with much splendor at Auxerre, France, in 863. Judith's father, however, did not attend the ceremony. Charles made his son-in-law margrave of Flanders in 864, which Baldwin held as a hereditary fief. On his return to Flanders, Baldwin built a great fortress on an island formed by the intersection of the River Roya with its little tributary, the Boterbeke. This was called the Bourg, and soon contained within its strong walls the nucleus of the future city of Bruges. The Flemings, people living in that area, were descended from the Franks, Germanic tribes who invaded Flanders in the A.D. 400's. The invasions forced the Celtic people in the area to move south. The Norsemen were at this time continually devastating the coastlands, and Baldwin was entrusted with this outlying borderland in order to defend it. He was the first of a line of strong rulers, who early in the 10th century, exchanged the title of margrave for that of count. Although never crowned as kings, the Counts of Flanders (at this time) were absolute rulers.
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