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Boudewijn I 'Bras de Fer' van VLAANDEREN, Comte de Flandres

Boudewijn I 'Bras de Fer' van VLAANDEREN, Comte de Flandres[1, 2, 3]

Male Abt 835 - 879  (44 years)


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  • Name Boudewijn I 'Bras de Fer' van VLAANDEREN 
    Suffix Comte de Flandres 
    Birth Abt 835 
    Gender Male 
    Death 2 Jan 879  Arras, 62000, FRANCE // Auxerre, 89000, FRANCE Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I27528  Coombs
    Last Modified 13 Feb 2016 

    Father Odakar III [Karolingen] des MORINS, Roi des Morins, Margrave de Flandres (824), Comte,   b. Abt 805   d. 837, (862-863) Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 32 years) 
    Mother Anséline van VLAANDEREN, Héritière de Thérouanne et Gand.,   b. Abt 815   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F9677  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Judith der Franken KAROLINGEN, Princess,   b. Abt 844, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 870 (Age 26 years) 
    Marriage 13 Dec 863  Auxerre, 89000, FRANCE Find all individuals with events at this location 

    • 13/12 89000.Auxerre
      Il enleva sa femme avec l'appui du Pape.
    Children 
     1. Boudewijn II 'de kale, le Calue' van VLAANDEREN, 2nd Count of Flanders and Artois,   b. 864, Flanders, Nord, France Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 10 Sep 918 (Age 54 years)
     2. Winilda (=Guinidilda) van VLAANDEREN, uncertain: or d'Ampurias,   b. Abt 855   d. Yes, date unknown
     3. Rodolphe (Raoul) [Vlaanderen] de CAMBRAI, Graaf van Kamerrijk (Cambrai),   b. Abt 865, Flanders (Belgium) Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 17 Jun 896, Cambray, 59122, Nord, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 31 years)
     4. Ledgarde van VLAANDEREN, Countess d'Amiens,   b. Abt 870   d. Yes, date unknown
    Family ID F9676  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 2 Feb 2026 

  • Notes 

    • Profession : Comte de Flandres.
      Count of Flanders


      SOURCES: LDS FHL Ancestral File # 9GCX-C5 (familysearch.org)
      WEB:
      "Ancestors/Descendants of Royal Lines" (Contributors: F. L. Jacquier (History of Charlemagne by Christian Settipani); L. Orlandini, Manuel Abranches de Soveral, Reynaud de Paysac, F.L. J P de Palmas (Aurejac et Tournemire; Frankish line; The Complete Peerage}, Jacquier (Genealogy of Lewis Carroll, Justin Swanstrom, The Royal Families of England Scotland & Wales by Burkes Peerage; Debrett's Peerage & Baronage; Table of descendants French Canadian Genealogical Society; Families of Monfnfort-sur-Risle & Bertrand de Bricquebec; The Dukes of Normandy, XXXXI), A. Brabant ("Dynastie Montmorency, Michel d'Herbigny), Paul Leportier, Claude Barret, H.R. Moser (Burke Peerage), O.Guionneau, L.B. de Rouge, E. Polti, N. Danican (Britain''s Royal Families; Buthlaw, Succession of Strathclyde, the Armorial 1961-62) A.Terlinden (Genealogy of the existing British Peerage, 1842), L. Gustavsson, C. Cheneaux, E. Lodge, S. Bontron (Brian Tompsett), R. Dewkinandan, H. de la Villarmois, C. Donadello; Scevole de Livonniere, H. de la Villarmois, I. Flatmoen, P. Ract Madoux (History of Morhange; Leon Maujean; Annuaire de Lorraine, 1926; La Galissonniere: Elections d'Arques et Rouen), Jean de Villoutreys (ref: Georges Poull), E. Wilkerson-Theaux (Laura Little), O. Auffray, A. Brabant (Genealogy of Chauvigny of Blot from "Chanoine Prevost Archiviste du Diocese de Troyes Union Typographique Domois Cote-d'Or 1925), Emmanuel Arminjon (E Levi-Provencal Histoire de l'Espagne Andalouse), Y. Gazagnes-Gazanhe, R. Sekulovich and J.P. de Palmas ("notes pierfit et iconographie Insecula", Tournemire), H de Riberolles (Base Tournemire), Franck Veillon; ,(Histoire Généalogique de la Maison de Hornes, Bruxelles 1848; Notice Historique Sur L'Ancien Comté de Hornes, Gand 1850; Europäische Stammtafeln, Marburg 1978); E.Driant / "La Maison de Damas" par Hubert Lamant, 1977 (Bibliothèque municipale d'Eaubonne)
      ........... http://geneastar.org.
      AWTP:
      "The Ancestry Of Overmire Tifft Richardson Bradford Reed" Larry Overmire larryover@worldnet.att.net.

  • Sources 
    1. [S33] http://vandermerwede.net/.

    2. [S13] bright.ged.

    3. [S23] AUREJAC.GED.