Count Robert (The Frisian) of Flanders I (Robtrecht le Frison) 
Robert, known as The Frisian, was born in 1035.1 The Frisian's father was Baldwin of Flanders V and his mother was Princess Adelais Capet of France. His paternal grandparents were Baldwin of Flanders IV and Ogive de Ardennes; his maternal grandparents were King Robert II (The Pious) Capet Of France and Constance Of Toulouse. He had two brothers and two sisters, named Richard, The Peaceable, Judith and Maud. He had two half-brothers and two half-sisters, named William, The Burgundian, Alix and Le Bon. He died at the age of 59 on August 17th, 1094.2 General Notes
Robert I of Flanders, known as Robert the Frisian, was count of Flanders from 1070 to 1092.
He was the younger son of Baldwin V of Flanders and Adela Capet, a daughter of king Robert I of France.
Robert was originally intended to secure the northern borders of Flanders by his marriage to Gertrude of Holland. But after his brother's death in 1070 he displaced his nephews and became count of Flanders.
By Gertrude of Holland he had 5 children:
Robert II of Flanders
Adela (d.1115), who first married king Canute IV of Denmark, and was the mother of Charles the Good, later count of Flanders. She then married Roger Borsa, duke of Apulia.
Gertrude, who married Thierry II, duke of Upper Lorraine, and was the mother of Thierry of Alsace, also later count of Flanders
Philip of Loo, whose illegitimate son William of Ypres was also a claimant to the county of Flanders
Ogiva, abbess of Messines
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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.19 May 0890 in Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium d.27 Mar 0964 in St. Peter's, Ghent, East Flanders, Belgium
- b.0933 in Flanders d.01 Nov 0962
- b.0912 in Vermandois, Neustria d.10 Oct 0960 in Bruges, Aquitaine
- b.Dec 0961 in Flanders, France d.30 Mar 0987 in Chapel de St. Laurent, France
- b.0910 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany d.27 Mar 0973 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany
- b.0937 in Luneburg, Saxony, Germany d.25 May 1008
- b.0918 in Westerberg, Saxony, Germany
- b.0980
- b.0880 in Ivrea, Piemonte region, Tuscany, Italy d.0932 in Spoleto, Tuscany, Italy
- b.0900 in Bamberg, Germany d.06 Aug 0966 in Bamberg, Germany
- b.0901 d.29 Feb 0932
- b.0952 in Luxembourg d.26 Jan 1002 in Gent, Flanders, France
- b.0881 in Florence, Tuscany, Italy d.0936 in Arles, Toulouse, France
- b.0924 in Tuscany, Italy d.0936 in Bamburg, Germany
- b.0906 in Bourgogne, France d.0936
- b.1012
- b.0895 in Verdun, France d.0923
- b.0922 in Luxembourg d.15 Aug 0998
- b.0890 in Luxembourg, Belgium d.0927
- b.0965 in Moselgau, France d.06 Oct 1009
- b.0900 d.18 Dec 0972
- b.0934 d.13 Dec 0992
- b.0915 d.0974
- b.0995 in Flanders, Belgium d.21 Feb 1030 in Flanders, France
- b.0880 in Souabe d.12 Dec 0949
- b.0925 d.0992
- b.0892 in Vermandois, Normandy, France d.12 Dec 0949
- b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
- b.0948 in Gleiberg, Germany
- b.1035 d.17 Aug 1094
- b.0860 d.15 Jun 0923
- b.0895 in Paris, Ile-de-France, France d.16 Jun 0956 in Deurdan, Dourdan, France
- b.0880 d.0931
- b.0938 d.24 Aug 0996 in Paris, France
- b.0876 in Saxony, Germany d.02 Jun 0936 in Membleben, Saxony, Germany
- b.0910 in Nordhausen, Saxony, Germany d.14 Mar 0964 in Aix-le-Chappelle, France
- b.0892 in Mesleben, Saxony, Germany d.14 Mar 0967 in Memleben, Saxony
- b.27 Mar 0972 in Orleans, France d.20 Jul 1031 in France
- b.0952 in France d.1004 in France
- b.23 Nov 0912 d.07 May 0973
- b.0932
- b.1003 in France d.08 Jan 1079 in Monasteraere De L'Ordre De St. Benoist, Messines, France
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- b.0947 in Poitiers, Aquitaine d.Sep 1037
- b.0974 d.1032
- b.0852 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.0890 in Orkney, Scotland
- b.0872 in Maer, Nord-Trondelag, Norway d.0931 in Notre Dame, Rouen, Normandie, Neustria
- b.0858 in Orkney, Orkney Islands, Scotland
- b.0917 in Rouen, Seine-Inferieure, Normandy, France d.14 Oct 0962
- b.0847 in Bayeux, Calvados, Normandy, France d.0886 in Viking attack at Bayeaux, Normandy, France
- b.0872 in Evreux, Neustria
- b.0855
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Details of The Frisian's family with Gertrude of Saxony
1 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jdp-fam&id=I6068
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I65852&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I65852&style=TABLE, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I010989
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I65852&style=TABLE
Further sources/citations:
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I65852&style=TABLE, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clcaldwell&id=I010989
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