Balduin III. (Flanders)

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Statue of Baldwin III. of Flanders at the Dunkirk town hall

Balduin III. ( Latin : Baldwinus ) (* probably around 935; † January 1, 962 ) was a count of Flanders in the 10th century. He was a son of Count Arnulf I the Great from the House of Flanders and Adele von Vermandois.

Baldwin is mentioned for the first time in 942 as a documented witness from his father in a donation to the Saint Peters Abbey in Ghent . In 954 he attested for the first time with the title of Count (comes) a donation from his mother to the same abbey. Apparently he was his father's co-regent in Flanders and held the county of Boulogne as his own fief. During his short term in office he established weaving and fulling in Ghent , thereby creating the economic basis of his country for the centuries to come. In 957 he unsuccessfully attacked Count Roger of Montreuil to take Amiens from him.

Baldwin fell ill with smallpox at Christmas 961 and died at New Year 962. He was buried in the Abbey of Saint-Bertin , where he had served briefly as the lay abbot. With his death, the county of Boulogne passed to his cousin Arnulf II .

Since 961 Balduin was married to Mathilde († 1008), a daughter of the Duke of Saxony , Hermann Billung . Their only child together was Arnulf II († 987), who in 964 succeeded his grandfather as Count of Flanders. Balduin's widow married Count Gottfried the prisoner of Verdun only shortly after his death .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Auguste van Lokeren, Chartes et documents de l'abbaye de Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin à Gand depuis sa fondation jusqu'à sa suppression (Gent 1868), no. 18; The document is dated July 8, 942.
  2. ↑ Auguste van Lokeren, Chartes et documents de l'abbaye de Saint Pierre au Mont Blandin à Gand depuis sa fondation jusqu'à sa suppression (Gent 1868), no. 23; The document is dated September 8, 945.
  3. ↑ Flodoard , Annales, chronica et historiae aevi Saxonici , ed. by Georg Heinrich Pertz in MGH SS 3, (1839), p. 404
  4. ↑ Folkwin , Gesta abbatum S. Bertini Sithiensium , ed. by Oswald Holder-Egger in MGH SS 13 (1881), p. 632

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predecessor Office successor
Arnulf I the Great Count of Flanders
(as co-regent of his father)
954–962 		Arnulf I the Great
Arnulf I the Great Count of Boulogne
954-962 		Arnulf II
personal data
SURNAME Balduin III.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count of Flanders
DATE OF BIRTH uncertain: 935
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 962