Baldwin II Count of Hainault 
Baldwin II Count of was born in 1056. Baldwin II Count of's father was Count Baldwin VI deArtois and his mother was Richilda Countess of Hainault & Namur. His paternal grandparents were Count Baldwin V Count of Flanders and Princess Adela Capet Princess of France; his maternal grandparents were Rainer V Count of Hainault and Mathilde de Verdun. He had a brother named Gilbert. He was the older of the two children. He had two half-brothers named Baldwin II Count of and Gilbert. He died at the age of 42 in 1098.General Notes
At the time of his succession he was a minor, and Robert, the Frisian,Duke of Flanders, seized Hainault, but Emperor Henry IV finally forcedRobert to return Hainault to the legitimate heir. Baldwin II embarked onthe pilgrimage of the Crusade in 1096, and at the Siege of Antioch, 1098,he was sent with Hugh Magnus to announce the news to Emperor AlexisCommenens, and to invite him to aid the crusaders in taking Jerusalem. Onthe road near Nicea, however, the party fell into the hands of the Turks.Hugh Magnus, leader of the First Crusade, escaped, but Baldwin wascaptured and never heard of again. Baldwin II married 1084 Ida or Alex,daughter of Henry II, Count of Louvain. In 1099 she went to Rome to tryto obtain news of her husband; the Pope, who could tell her nothing,tried to console her, and sent her back to Hainault, where she died 1139.
Children: Baldwin III, Arnould, Ida, Richilde and Alix.
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.0940 in Flanders, France d.01 Nov 0992
- b.0970 d.30 Mar 0997
- b.0955 d.25 May 1008
- b.0968 in Flanders, France d.30 May 1036 in Flanders, France
- b.0910 in Italy d.06 Jul 0966 in Bamberg
- b.0950 in Luxembourg d.26 Jan 1002/1003 in Gent, Belgium
- b.0930 in Tuscany d. in Bamburg
- b.1012 in Flanders, France d.01 Sep 1067 in Lille, France
- b.0930 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0955 in Moselgau, France d.UNKNOWN
- b.1012
- b.1004 d.21 Feb 1029/1030 in Flanders, France
- b.0924 in Kinzig, Hessen, Germany d.UNKNOWN
- b.0968 in Gleiberg, Germany d.UNKNOWN
- b.0940 in Avalgau, Germany
- b.1032 d.1098
- b.0939 in Paris,Seine,France d.Aug 0996 in Paris,Isle de France
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans,France d.20 Jul 1031 in Melun,France
- b.0952 in Germany d.1004
- b.1010 d.1079 in Monastere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, France
- b.0921 d.1006
- b.0945 in Toulouse, France
- b.0923 d.0950
- b.0973 in Toulouse, France d.1032 in Melun, France
- b.0904 d.0961
- b.0948 in Anjou, France
- b.0913 d.0952
- b.1056 d.1098
- b.0868 d.0932
- b.0892 d.0971
- b.0874
- b.0955 d.1013
- b.0904 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0929 d.1013
- b.0996 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0897 in Paris, France d.16 Jun 0956 in deurdan, Dourdan, France
- b.0938 in Paris, Seine, France d.24 Oct 0996 in Paris, Seine, France
- b.0922 d.10 May 0965 in Aachen, Rheinland, Germany
- b.0972 d.UNKNOWN
- b.0915 d.03 Apr 0963
- b.0945 d.1004
- b.0917 d.14 Oct 0962
- b.1033 d.15 Mar 1086/1087
- b.0992 d.UNKNOWN
- b.1017
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They had a son named Baldwin III Count of.
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Children
Baldwin III Count of Hainault
Baldwin III Count of was born in 1088 in Hainaut, Flanders. He died at the age of 32 in 1120.
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