Baldwin III OF HAINAUT (1088-1120)

Individual Events and Attributes

Marriage

Individual Note

Baldwin III (1088–1120) was count of Hainaut from 1098 to his death. He was son of Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut and Ida of Leuven.

Baldwin succeeded to the county of Hainaut in 1102. Baldwin married Yolande of Guelders at a young age. He had been betrothed to Adelaide of Maurienne, a niece of Countess Clemence of Flanders. The broken betrothal caused a scandal, and Countess Clemence brought the issue before her brother Pope Calixtus II. The pope declared that the marriage was legal and could not be dissolved.[1]

Baldwin died at a young age of thirty-three in 1120, and was buried in Mons. His eldest son Balwin succeeded him as Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut. His younger son Gerard inherited the counties of Dodewaard and Dalen, which had been in the possession of his mother. Countess Yolande held Haunaut by rights of dower for a while, and as a regent for her son.[1]

Countess Yolande married Godfrey II, Lord of Ribemont and Bouchain, Castellan of Valenciennes and the son of Anselm of Ribemont in ca 1120.[2] Yolande and Godfrey II had two children:

Godfrey III, Castellan of Valenciennes

Berthe of Valenciennes, who married 1) Otto Count of Duras and 2) Guy de Saint-Aubert

Family

He was married with Yolande of Guelders, daughter of Gerard I, Count of Guelders. Their children were:

Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut, married Alix (Adelaide) de Namur.

Gerhard of Hainault, ancestor of Counts of Dale.

Gertrude/Ida of Hainault, married before 9 August 1138 Roger of Tosny of Conches and Flamsted.[1]

Richildis of Hainault, married: 1) Thierry d'Avesnes; 2) Everard castellan of Tournai.[1]

NOTES:

1 a b c d Gislebertus (of Mons), Laura Napran, Chronicle of Hainaut, 2005

2 Heather J. Tanner, Families, friends, and allies: Boulogne and politics in northern France and England, c. 879-1160, Brill, 2004

SOURCES:

Counts of Hainaut family tree

Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis (lines 98A-25, 163-25 160-23, 163-24, 163-26)²

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