Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameThierry Count Of Flanders, 27G Grandfather
Birthabt 1099
Death17 Jan 1168
BurialAbbey of Watten
FatherTheodoric II Duke Of Lorraine (-1115)
MotherGertrude Of Flanders (~1070-1117)
Spouses
1Sibylla Of Anjou, 27G Grandmother
Birthabt 1112
Death1165, Bethany
FatherFulk (The Younger) King Of Jerusalem (-1143)
MotherErmengarde Of Maine (~1096-1126)
Marriage1139
ChildrenMatthew (~1137-1173)
Margaret Of Flanders (-1194)
Notes for Thierry Count Of Flanders
Known as Thierry of Alsace.
With a record of four campaigns in the Levant and Africa (including participation in the Second Crusade the failed 1157–1158 siege of the Syrian city Shaiza, and the 1164 invasion of Egypt, he had a rare and distinguished record of commitment to crusading.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry,_Count_of_Flanders
With a record of four campaigns in the Levant and Africa (including participation in the Second Crusade the failed 1157–1158 siege of the Syrian city Shaiza, and the 1164 invasion of Egypt, he had a rare and distinguished record of commitment to crusading.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thierry,_Count_of_Flanders
Notes for Sibylla Of Anjou (Spouse 1)
First marriage was in 1123 to William Clito, son of Robert Curthose. The marriage was annulled in 1124 on grounds of consanguinity.
She accompanied he widowed father to the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem where he became King. She married Thierry who had arrived on his first pilgrimage to the Holy Land. When Thierry returned to Flanders after his third pilgrimage she remained behind to become a nun at St. Lazarus in Bethany.
She accompanied he widowed father to the crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem where he became King. She married Thierry who had arrived on his first pilgrimage to the Holy Land. When Thierry returned to Flanders after his third pilgrimage she remained behind to become a nun at St. Lazarus in Bethany.