Arnold II The Young Count OF FLANDERS 
Arnold II The Young Count was born in 0970. Arnold II The Young Count's father was Count Baldwin III OF FLANDERS and his mother was Mathilda OF BURGUNDY. His paternal grandparents were Count Arnold I "The Great" OF FLANDERS and Adele DE VERMANDOIS; his maternal grandparents were King Conrad III OF BURGUNDY and Princess Matilde OF FRANCE. He had a brother and a sister, named Jean Of Tonsburgh and Bertha. He was the second oldest of the three children.General Notes
Credited with the first unification of the country, convertedthe Danes to Christianity, and conquered Norway. After hisBaptism his fathers pagan tomb was transformed into a Christianplace of worship.
Introduced Christianity into Denmark, he had the famous Jellingrune stone erected in his parent memory. He was fatally woundedduring a rebellion by his son and successor, Sveng I.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.0890
- b.0940 in Flanders, France d.01 Nov 0992
- b.0845 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.0939 in Murdered under orders of Clovis I
- b.0885 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.23 Feb 0930 in St. Quentin, France
- b.0855
- b.0914 d.0969
- b.0820 d.0923
- b.0890
- b.0853
- b.0970
- b.0925 d.0993
- b.0955
- b.0921 d.0954
- b.0869 in Wessex, England d.17 Jul 0924 in Farndon on Dee, Cheshire, England
- b.0943
- b.0876 in Saxony, Germany d.02 Jul 0936 in Memleben, Saxe, Germany
- b.0913 in Saxony d.0984
- b.0895 in Memleben, Saxe, Germany d.0968 in Quedlinburg, Germany
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They had two sons named Eudes Of Flanders and Baldwin IV "Fair Beard".
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Children
Count Baldwin IV "Fair Beard" OF FLANDERS
Baldwin IV "Fair Beard" was born in 0990 in Flanders, France. He died at the age of 48 in 1038.
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