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- Baldwin II (c. 866 – 918), who succeeded as margrave of Flanders Ralph (c. 869 – murdered 896), who became count of Cambrai around 888; he and his brother joined King Zwentibold of Lotharingia in 895, attacked Vermandois and captured Arras, Saint-Quentin and Peronne, and ended up captured and killed by Herbert I of Vermandois
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Baldwin II (c. 865 – 10 September 918) was the second margrave (or count) of Flanders, ruling from 879 to 918. He was nicknamed the Bald ( Calvus ) after his maternal grandfather, Emperor Charles the Bald .
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May 27, 2002 · The early years of Baldwin II were marked by major Viking incursions, and their army wintered at Gand (Ghent) in 881 [ Ann. Vedast. 51]. Baldwin first appears in the contemporary records in 888, when, along with archbishop Foulques (of Reims) and abbot Raoul (of Cysoing, Saint-Bertin, and Saint-Vaast), he was among those who asked king Arnulf ...
Baldwin II Porphyrogenitus (born 1217, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]—died October 1273, Foggia, kingdom of Sicily) was the last Latin emperor of Constantinople, who lost his throne in 1261 when Michael VIII Palaeologus restored Greek rule to the capital. The son of Yolande, sister of Baldwin I, the first Latin ...
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Baldwin V thereupon ruled as Baldwin VIII of Flanders by right of marriage. When Countess Margaret I died in 1194, Flanders descended to her eldest son, Baldwin IX. In 1186, the younger Baldwin had married Marie, daughter of Count Henry I of Champagne, and Marie of France.
Biography. Baldwin II was born in Constantinople (the only Latin emperor to be born there), a younger son of Yolanda of Flanders, sister of the first two emperors, Baldwin I and Henry of Flanders. [1] Her husband, Peter of Courtenay, was third emperor of the Latin Empire, and had been followed by his son Robert of Courtenay, on whose death in ...
