Arnulf II, Count of Flanders
Arnulf II | |
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Baldwin III of Flanders | |
| Mother | Mathilde Billung of Saxony |
Arnulf II (960 or 961 – 30 March 987) was Count of Flanders from 965 until his death.
Life
He was the son of
Arnulf I, was still alive.[2] When Arnulf I died three years later (965), the regency was held by his kinsman Baldwin Balso, who died in 973.[3]
By the time Arnulf attained his majority in 976,
Lothar of France to help assure his grandson's succession, and gave Boulogne as a fief to another relative.[3] Then early in Arnulf's minority Lothar had taken Ponthieu and given it to Hugh Capet, and the first counts of Guînes had established themselves.[3] Arnulf died on 30 March 987 at age 26.[4] Shortly after Arnulf's death his widow married King Robert II of France.[4]
Family
In 976, he married Rozala of Italy, daughter of Berengar II of Italy,[5] and had two children:
- .
- Mathilde, who died before 995.[2]
Notes
- ^ Nicholas 1992, p. 42.
- ^ Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1984), Tafel 5
- ^ a b c d Jean Dunbabin, France in the Making, 843–1180, Second Edition (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 73
- ^ a b Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists, Who Came To America before 1700, Seventh Edition (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1993), Line 162-20
- ^ a b Nicholas 1992, p. 44.
References
- Nicholas, David (1992). Medieval Flanders. Longman.
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