General Notes

1  NAME Judith of of /France/
2  SOUR S033320
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001
1  BIRT
2  DATE ABT. 845
2  PLAC of Flanders, Nord Dept., France
2  SOUR S033320
3  DATA
4  TEXT Date of Import: Jan 17, 2001


[De La Pole.FTW]

!UPDATE: 7 AUG 1993
Sources: RC 235, 250; Coe; A. Roots; AF; K and Q of Britain; Alfred the
Great by P.H. Helm; Smallwood.
Princess of France. Queen of Wessex and England. Baldwin was her second
husband.
Helm: Judith, daughter of Charles the Bald; married Ethelwulf 1 Oct. 856
when she was about 12 years old. Married (2) in 858 Ethelbald, son of
Ethelwulf. Ethelbald died in 860 and Judith was "packed off back to France."
"There she was visited by Baldwin the "Iron-Arm", later count of Flanders, and
helped by her brother, Judith eloped with Baldwin and fled to Rome. Her furious
father persuaded the French bishops to excommnicate her lover, but the Pope,
Nicholas I, was more sympathetic. In the end the king gave way--but he refused
to attend the wedding! Thirty years later one of Alfred's daughters,
Aelfthryth, married the son of Judith and Baldwin."