Cook Family Ancestry Baldwin II The Bald of Flanders Count of Flanders [4726] This title is just so we know which tree we are working in, as there are many families represented here.

Inghelram (Audacer) [48830]
(-0862)

Charles II The Bald Holy Roman Emperor, King of West Franks [2829]
(0823-0877)

Ermentrude of Orléans Queen of the Franks [3626]
(0823-0869)

Baldwin I Count of Flanders [6702]
(Abt 0837-0879)

Judith Princess of Aquitaine [3628]
(Abt 0844-0870)

Baldwin II The Bald of Flanders Count of Flanders [4726]
(Abt 0863-0918)

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AEfthryth Countess of Flanders [4725]

Baldwin II The Bald of Flanders Count of Flanders [4726]

Born: Abt 863
Marriage: AEfthryth Countess of Flanders [4725] after 893
Died: 10 Sep 918, Blandimberg about age 55

bullet General Notes:

Acceded: 879
Carried on a successful war against Etudes, Count of France
http://www.hull.ac.uk/php/cssbct/cgi-bin/gedlkup.php/n=royal?royal01988

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_II_of_Flanders

nicknamed Calvus (the Bald) was the second count of Flanders <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count_of_Flanders>. He was also hereditary abbot of St. Bertin <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bertin> from 892 till his death. He was the son of Baldwin I of Flanders <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_I_of_Flanders> and Judith <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_of_Flanders>, a daughter of Charles the Bald <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_the_Bald>.

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• Acceded, 879.

Baldwin married AEfthryth Countess of Flanders [4725] [MRIN: 1377], daughter of Alfred the Great King of West Saxons [4721] and Ealhswith of the Gaini [4722], after 893. (AEfthryth Countess of Flanders [4725] was born in 873 and died on 7 Jun 929.)