Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameBaldwin II Count Of Hainaut, 29G Grandfather
Birth1056
Death1098, Anatolia
FatherBaldwin VI Count Of Flanders (~1030-1070)
MotherRichilde (~1018-1086)
Spouses
1Ida Of Louvain, 29G Grandmother
Death1139
FatherHenry II Count Of Louvain (~1020-1078)
MotherAdele Of Orthen (~1023-1086)
ChildrenBaldwin III (1088-1120)
Notes for Baldwin II Count Of Hainaut
Count of Hainaut from 1071.
Joined the First Crusade in the company of Godfrey of Bouillon. After the seige of Antioch, he was sent to Contantinople to seek assistance from the Byzantine emperor. He disappeared during a raid by the Seljuk Turks and was presumably killed.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_II,_Count_of_Hainaut
Joined the First Crusade in the company of Godfrey of Bouillon. After the seige of Antioch, he was sent to Contantinople to seek assistance from the Byzantine emperor. He disappeared during a raid by the Seljuk Turks and was presumably killed.
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin_II,_Count_of_Hainaut
Notes for Ida Of Louvain (Spouse 1)
While on a pilgimage to Jerusalem in 1106, organized a search for her lost husband in Anatolia to no avail.