General Notes

!M.1. Hermann, Count of Hennegau; m.2. Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders and Hainault; dau. of Regnier V, Count of Hainault and Hathilda of Lorraine; mother of Baldwin II, Count of Hainault. [Ped. of Charlemagne, Vol. I, p.. 277]

FOSTER LINE - 28th ggrandmother

!Her joint rule with her young son following the death of her husband was unpopular.  The boy's uncle, Robert the Frisian, invaded Flanders. Richildis was captured and her young son killed. [William I and the Norman Conquest]

!Countess of Hainault and Namur. [Magna Charta Barons, p. 116]

When war broke out in Flanders between Richilde, widow of Count Baldwin VI and Robert the Frison, Queen Matilda supported Richilde and sent William FitzOsbern to her aid. He being a widower, became a suitor, and soon married her. She made him titular Count of Flanders. William and her son, Ernulph, were killed the next year at Ravenchoven, near Cassel, by the forces of Robert the Frison.
[Falaise Roll, p. 42]

Countess of Hainault; dau. of Regnier V, Count of Hainault, and Maud de Verdun; m.2 Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders; m. 3 William Fitz Osbern, Earl of Hereford; mother of Baudouin II, Count of Hainault; b.c. 1033, d. 15 Mar 1088 at Macheln; bur. at Hasnon beside Baudouin; niece of Pope Leo IX. [Charlemagne & Others, Chart 3340c]

First marriage was to Herman, Count of Hainaut +ca. 1051, son of Reinier V, Count of Hainaut. At that point he Europ. Stammtafeln lists her as being a Countess of Egisheim.
   When she remarried Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders and later of Hainaut, c. 1055, she was recorded with the title of her late husband, vix. Countess of Hainaut, and it is perhaps for this reason that von Isenburg lists her as being the dau. of Herman, Count of Hainaut (her 1st husband). Von Isenburg does not list a dau. called Richilde among the children of Herman and Richilde, and as such it is probably safe to assume that Richilde of Hainaut was in actual fact a Countess of Egisheim. [S.F. Rootenberg<rootenberg@tip.nl]