Ninth Generation  

63. Comte Englebert I de BRIENNE de Brienne [120800] (Count Eudes of Cambrai⁵², Count Arnoul II of Flanders⁴¹, Count Baudouin III of Flanders³⁸, Count Arnoul I of Flanders¹⁴, Countess Ælfthryth of Flanders⁹, Alfred [the Great] of the Anglo-Saxons & Wessex (King)⁷, Aethelwulf of Wessex (King)², Ecgberht of Wessex (King)¹) was born about 880 in France and died about 968 in Brienne-le-Château Aube Champagne-Ardenne France aged about 88.

Englebert married N N [120801].

Children from this marriage were:

   75    i. Engeltrude de BRIENNE [120807] was born about 925 in Brienne-le-Château Aube Champagne-Ardenne France and died about 980 in Tonnerre Yonne Bourgogne-Franche-Comté France aged about 55.

Engeltrude married Comte Milon I de TONNERRE de Tonnerre [120808]. Milon was born about 915 in Tonnerre Yonne Bourgogne-Franche-Comté France and died in 987 in Tonnerre Yonne Bourgogne-Franche-Comté France aged about 72.

+ 76    ii. Comte Englebert II de BRIENNE de Brienne [120795] was born about 935 in Brienne-le-Château Aube Champagne-Ardenne France and died about 980 in Bar-sur-Seine Seine-et-Marne France aged about 45.

   77    iii. Marinaude de CAMBRAY [120802] was born in 957.

Marinaude married Mainfrede AUVERGNE de BRAINE de Salins [120804]. Mainfrede was born in 964 and died in 1035 at age 71.

65. Count Baudouin V de FLANDERS of Flanders [35129] (Count Baudouin IV of Flanders⁵³, Count Arnoul II of Flanders⁴¹, Count Baudouin III of Flanders³⁸, Count Arnoul I of Flanders¹⁴, Countess Ælfthryth of Flanders⁹, Alfred [the Great] of the Anglo-Saxons & Wessex (King)⁷, Aethelwulf of Wessex (King)², Ecgberht of Wessex (King)¹) was born on 19 Aug 1012 in Bihorel Seine-Maritime Normandy France and died on 1 Sep 1067 in Lille Nord Nord-Pas-de-Calais France at age 55.

General Notes: Wikipedia says of Baudouin V:
During a long war (1046-1056) as an ally of Duke Godfrey the Bearded of Lorraine against Emperor Henry III, Baldwin initially lost Valenciennes to Count Herman of Mons. However, when the latter died in 1049, Baldwin had his son, Baldwin VI, marry Herman's widow Richilde,[1] and arranged that the children of her first marriage were disinherited, thus de facto uniting the County of Hainaut with Flanders.[2] Upon the death of Henry III this marriage was acknowledged by treaty by Agnes of Poitou, mother and regent of Henry IV.

Baldwin V played host to a grateful Emma of Normandy, the exiled queen dowager of England, at Bruges.[3] He supplied armed security guards, entertainment, comprising a band of minstrels. Bruges was a bustling commercial centre, and Emma fittingly grateful to the citizens. She dispensed generously to the poor, making contact with the monastery of Saint Bertin at St Omer, and received her son King Harthacnut of England at Bruges in 1039.

From 1060 to 1067 Baldwin was the co-regent with Anne of Kiev for his nephew Philip I of France, indicating the importance he had acquired in international politics.[4] As count of Flanders, Baldwin supported the king of France in most affairs, but he was also father-in-law to Duke William II of Normandy, who had married his daughter Matilda. Flanders played a pivotal role in Edward the Confessor's foreign policy when the king of England was struggling to find an heir. Historians have argued that he may have sent Harold Godwinsson to negotiate the return of Edward the Exile from Hungary, and passed through Flanders, on his way to Germany. Baldwin's half-sister had married Earl Godwin's third son, Tostig.[2] The half-Viking Godwinsons had spent their exile in Dublin, at a time William of Normandy was fiercely defending his duchy. It is unlikely however that Baldwin intervened to prevent the duke's invasion plans of England, after the count had lost the conquered province of Ponthieu. Baldwin died 1 September 1067.[4]

Baudouin married Countess Adele CAPET of Flanders [120105] in 1028 in Amiens France. Adele was born on 5 Mar 1009 in Toulouse Occitanie France, died on 8 Jan 1078 in Mesen West-Vlaanderen Vlaams Gewest Belgium at age 68, and was buried in Mesen West-Vlaanderen Vlaams Gewest Belgium.

Children from this marriage were:

   78    i. Elena de FLANDERS [123170] was born in 1026 and died in 1070 at age 44.

   79    ii. Comte Robert I de FLANDERS d'Artois [120108] was born between 1029 and 1032 in Wijnendale West Vlaanderen Vlaams Gewest Belgium and died on 13 Oct 1093 in Wijnendale West Vlaanderen Vlaams Gewest Belgium.

Robert married Comntesse Gertrude [of Saxony] BILLUNG de Flanders [120109]. Gertrude was born in 1028 in Schweinfurt Unterfranken and died on 4 Aug 1113 in Veurne West-Vlaanderen Vlaanderen Belgium at age 85.

+ 80    iii. Comte Baudouin VI de FLANDERS de Flanders & Hainaut [120107] was born about 1030 in Hainaut Walloon Region Belgium and died on 17 Jul 1070 in Nord-Pas-de-Calais France aged about 40.

+ 81    iv. Matilda of FLANDERS [35128] was born about 1031 in Ghent East Flanders Flanders Belgium and died on 2 Nov 1083 in Caen Calvadon Normandy France aged about 52.

+ 82    v. Richard FORESTER [120102] was born in 1034 in Flanders Belgium and died in 1080 in Scotland at age 46.

   83    vi. Henry de FLANDERS [120110] was born about 1035 in Nevers Nièvre Bourgogne-Franche-Comté France.

   84    vii. Constance de FLANDERS [123169] was born in 1036 and died in 1094 at age 58.

Baudouin next married someone.

71. Comte Odo II de BLOIS de Blois, Champagne and Chartres [123764] (Queen Consort Berthe de WELF of the Franks⁵⁶, Queen Consort Mathilde de CAROLINGIA des Deux-Bourgognes⁴³, King Louis IV de CAROLINGIA of France³⁹, Queen Eadgifu of WESSEX of France²⁵, Eadweard I "the Elder" of the Anglo-Saxons (King)¹¹, Alfred [the Great] of the Anglo-Saxons & Wessex (King)⁷, Aethelwulf of Wessex (King)², Ecgberht of Wessex (King)¹) was born in 983 in Blois Loir-et-Cher Centre-Val de Loire France and died on 15 Nov 1037 in Bar le Duc Meuse Grand Est France at age 54.

General Notes: Wikipedia says of Odo,
Odo II (French: Eudes) (983 \endash 15 November 1037) was the count of Blois, Chartres, Châteaudun, Beauvais and Tours from 1004 and count of Troyes (as Odo IV) and Meaux (as Odo I) from 1022. He twice tried to make himself a king: first in Italy after 1024 and then in Burgundy after 1032.

Odo II was the son of Odo I of Blois and Bertha of Burgundy.[1] He was the first to unite Blois and Champagne under one authority although his career was spent in endless feudal warfare with his neighbors and suzerains, many of whose territories he tried to annex.[2]

About 1003/4 he married Maud, a daughter of Richard I of Normandy.[3] After her death in 1005,[1] and as she had no children, Richard II of Normandy demanded a return of her dowry: half the county of Dreux.[4] Odo refused and the two warred over the matter.[4] Finally, King Robert II, who had married Odo's mother, imposed his arbitration on the contestants in 1007, leaving Odo in possession of the castle Dreux while Richard II kept the remainder of the lands.[4] Odo quickly married a second wife, Ermengarde, daughter of William IV of Auvergne [fr].[4]

Defeated by Fulk III of Anjou and Herbert I of Maine at the Battle of Pontlevoy in July 1016, he quickly tried to overrun the Touraine.[2] After the death of his cousin Stephen I in 1019/20, without heirs he seized Troyes, Meaux and all of Champagne for himself without royal approval.[5] From there he attacked Ebles, the archbishop of Reims, and Theodoric I, Duke of Lorraine. Due to an alliance between the king and the Emperor Henry II he was forced to relinquish the county of Rheims to the archbishop.

He was offered the crown of Italy by the Lombard barons, but the offer was quickly retracted in order not to upset relations with the king of France. In 1032, he invaded the Kingdom of Burgundy on the death of Rudolph III.[6] He retreated in the face of a coalition of the Emperor Conrad II and the new king of France, Henry I.[7] In 1037 he took advantage of Conrad II's absence in Italy to invade the Duchy of Lorraine, but he died in the rout after being defeated by the forces of Gothelo I, Duke of Lorraine, in the Battle of Bar-le-Duc.[

Odo married Ermengarde d'AUVERGNE [123765]. Ermengarde was born in 970 in Auvergne Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes France and died on 10 Mar 1040 in Aquitane France at age 70.

Children from this marriage were:

   85    i. Gilbert de BLOIS de Venables [123766] was born in 1010 in Venables Eure Haute-Normandie France and died in 1072 in Northwich Cheshire England at age 62.

+ 86    ii. Comte Thibaut de BLOIS de Blois & Champagne [123753] was born in 1012 in Champagne Ardeche Rhône-Alpes France and died on 29 Sep 1089 in Epernay Marne Champagne-Ardenne France at age 77.

   87    iii. Comet Etienne II de BLOIS de Blois, Champagne & Troyes [123767] was born about 1015 in Blois Loir-et-Cher Centre-Val de Loire France and died on 19 May 1048 in France aged about 33.

   88    iv. Berthe de BLOIS [123768] was born about 1015 in Blois Loir-et-Cher Centre-Val de Loire France and died on 14 Apr 1085 in Chartres Eure-et-Loir Centre-Val de Loire France aged about 70.

   89    v. Almodis de BLOIS [123769] was born in 1020 in Blois Loir-et-Cher Centre-Val de Loire France and died in 1087 in Preuilly-sur-Claise Indre-et-Loire Centre-Val de Loire France at age 67.

   90    vi. Emma de BLOIS [123770] was born in 1022 in Blois Loir-et-Cher Centre-Val de Loire France and died in 1074 in France at age 52.

   91    vii. Herbert de BLOIS [123771] died on 26 Mar 1051.

   92    viii. Comte Sephen II de BLOIS de Champagne [123772] died in 1048.

   93    ix. Comte Enguerrand de BLOIS de Ponthieu [123773] was born in 1034 in Blois Loir-et-Cher Centre-Val de Loire France and died on 22 May 1060 at age 26.