Baldwin IV Fair Beard Count of FLANDERS

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Record Change  November 01, 1999
Source includes, but is not limited to:
Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both
resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of
Latter Day Saints.Called The Bearded or Barbatus. He fought successfully bothagainst the
Capetian King of France and Emperor, Henry II, from the latter of whomhe
received the Valenciennes in fief, the Burgraveship of Ghent, thelands of
Waes and Zeeland.
The Count of Flanders thus became a feudatory of the Empire as well asof the
French Crown. The French fiefs are known in Felmish Crown Flanders
(Kroon-Vlaanderren), the German fiefs as Imperial Flanders
(Rijks-Vlaandeeren).
He was called The Bearded.