NameBaldwin (Baudouin) V de Lille , Count of Flanders
Birthabt 1012
Death1 Sep 1067, Lille, France
MotherOgive of Luxemburg (-1030)
Spouses
Birth1009, France
Death8 Jan 1079, Monastere de L'Ordre de St. Benoist, Messines, France
Death Memoage 70
MotherConstance de Provence (~973-1032)
MarriageJan 1026-1027
ChildrenMatilda (~1031-1083)
Notes for Baldwin (Baudouin) V de Lille , Count of Flanders
Baldwin V "the Pious" of Flanders, Count of Flanders
Entered into hostilities with Emporer Otho II and aquired from that monarch Valenciennes and the Isles of Zealand. He subseqently further increased his territories by another rich accession, that of the citadel of Ghent.

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3Baldwin V of Flanders (c. 1012 – 1 September 1067) was Count of Flanders from 1035 until his death.
He was the son of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders, who died in 1035.
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History
In 1028 Baldwin married Adèle of France in Amiens, daughter of King Robert II of France; at her instigation he rebelled against his father but in 1030 peace was sworn and the old count continued to rule until his death.
During a long war (1046–1056) as an ally of Godfrey the Bearded, Duke of Lorraine, against the Holy Roman Emperor Henry III, he initially lost Valenciennes to Hermann of Hainaut. However, when the latter died in 1051 Baldwin married his son Baldwin VI to Herman's widow Richildis and arranged that the sons of her first marriage were disinherited, thus de facto uniting the County of Hainaut with Flanders. Upon the death of Henry III this marriage was acknowledged by treaty by Agnes de Poitou, mother and regent of Henry IV. Baldwin V played host to a grateful dowager queen Emma of England, during her enforced exile, at Bruges. 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-by-marriage Philip I of France, indicating the importance he had acquired in international politics. As Count of Maine, Baldwin supported the King of France in most affairs. But he was also father-in-law to William of Normandy, who had married his daughter Matilda. Flanders played a pivotal role in Edward the Confessor's foreign policy. As 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 Atheling from Hungary, and passed through Flanders, on his way to Germany. Baldwin's half-sister had married scheming Earl Godwin's third son, Tostig. 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. By 1066, Baldwin was an old man, and died the following year.

Family
Baldwin and Adèle had five children:
Baldwin VI, 1030-1070
Matilda, c.1031-1083 who married William the Conqueror
Robert I of Flanders, c.1033–1093
▪ Henry of Flanders c.1035
▪ poss. Sir Richard of Flanders c. 1050-1105
Notes for Adela (Alix\Aelis) de (Spouse 1)
Adèle de France
* Birth: 1009, France
* Married (1): Jan 1026-1027
* Married (2): 1028, Paris
* Death: 8 Jan 1078-1079, Monastere de L'Ordre de St. Benoist, Messines, France



b. 1009, France
d. 8 Jan 1079, Messinesmonastre, France, Age: 70
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