Baldwin II of Mons (1056–1098?) was count of Hainaut from 1071 to his death. The counts of Hainaut were the rulers of the County of Hainaut, a historical region in the Low Countries. He was the younger son of Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders and Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut. Baldwin VI of Flanders (c 1030 &ndash 17 July 1070 was briefly Count of Flanders, from 1067 to 1070 Richilde Countess of Mons and Hainaut (c 1031 - 15 March, 1086)

Contents 1 History 2 Family 3 See also 4 Sources

History

Baldwin became Count after the death of his older brother, Arnulf III, Count of Flanders. Arnulf III (c 1055 &ndash February 22 1071, in battle was Count of Flanders and Count of Hainaut, as Arnulf I from 1070 to his The family claim to the title Count of Flanders was lost by his brother's death, passing instead to their uncle Robert the Frisian. counts of Flanders were the Rulers over the county of Flanders from the 9th century until the abolition of the Countship by the French revolutionaries Robert I of Flanders (b between 1029 and 1032–13 October 1093 Kassel) known as Robert the Frisian, was Count of Flanders from 1071 to 1092

Baldwin joined the First Crusade in the company of Godfrey of Bouillon (rather than with Robert II of Flanders, whose family was still at odds with his own), after selling some of his property to the Bishopric of Liège. The First Crusade was launched in 1095 by Pope Urban II with the dual goals of conquering the sacred city of Jerusalem and the Holy Land and freeing Godfrey of Bouillon (c 1060 Boulogne-sur-Mer &ndash 18 July 1100, Jerusalem) was a medieval knight who was a leader of the First Robert II (c 1065 &ndash October 5, 1111) was Count of Flanders from 1093 to 1111 The Bishopric of Liège or Prince-Bishopric of Liège was a state of the Holy Roman Empire in the Low Countries in present Belgium In 1098 he was sent back to Constantinople with Hugh of Vermandois after the siege of Antioch, to seek assistance from Byzantine emperor Alexius I. Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis, or gr ἡ Πόλις hē Polis, Latin: la CONSTANTINOPOLIS For other uses please see Siege of Antioch (disambiguation The Siege of Antioch took place during the First Crusade in 1097 This is a list of the Emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire, commonly known as the Byzantine Empire by modern historians However, Baldwin disappeared during a raid by the Seljuk Turks in Anatolia, and was presumably killed. The Seljuq (also Seljuq Turks, Seldjuks, Seldjuqs, Seljuks; in Turkish Selçuklular; in Ṣaljūqīyān; in Anatolia (Anadolu Ανατολία Anatolía) or Asia minor, comprising most of modern Turkey, is the geographic region bounded by the Black

Family

He married Ida of Leuven (a daughter of Count Henry II of Leuven and sister of Godfrey I of Leuven, Duke of Lower Lotharingia) in 1084. Godfrey I (c 1060 &ndash 25 January 1139) called the Bearded, the Courageous, or the Great, was the landgrave of Brabant Their children were:

1. Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut
2. Louis, living 1096
3. Simon, a canon in Liege
4. Henry, living 1096
5. Willem, died after 1117
6. Arnould; m. Baldwin III (1088 &ndash 1120 was Count of Hainaut from 1098 to his death Liège (ljɛːʒ Older English: Luick, Walloon: Lidje, German: Lüttich; Latin: Leodium, Dutch Beatrix von Ath (b. c. 1075–before 1136), daughter of Walter von Ath and Ade de Roucy
7. Ide, (c. 1085–after 1101); 1m: Guy de Chievres; 2m: c. 1100 Thomas I de Coucy
8. Richilde, (c. 1095–after 1118); m. c. 1115 (div. 1118) Amaury IV de Montfort
9. Aelidis, (before 1098–1153); m. Amaury de Montfort may refer to Amaury I of Montfort (1028–1053 seigneur de Montfort Amaury II of Montfort (1056–1089 seigneur de Nicolas II de Rumigny

See also

• Counts of Hainaut family tree

Sources

• Alan V. is a Family tree of the Counts of Hainaut, sometimes spelled though not pronounced Hainault from 1055 to 1432, when the County of Hainaut Murray, The Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem: A Dynastic History, 1099-1125. Prosopographica et Genealogica, 2000.
• Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Lines 106-23, 163-24.

Preceded by Arnulf I

Count of Hainaut 1071–1098?

Succeeded by Baldwin III

Arnulf III (c 1055 &ndash February 22 1071, in battle was Count of Flanders and Count of Hainaut, as Arnulf I from 1070 to his The counts of Hainaut were the rulers of the County of Hainaut, a historical region in the Low Countries. Baldwin III (1088 &ndash 1120 was Count of Hainaut from 1098 to his death

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