Baldwin V 'the Pious' de Lille Comte de Flandre ²

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Baldwin V de Lille, Comte de Flandre also went by the nick-name of Baldwin 'the Pious'. He succeeded to the title of Comte de Flandre in 1035. [thePeerage.com]

Also called BALDWIN OF LILLE, French BAUDOUIN DE LILLE, Dutch BOUDEWIJN VAN RIJSEL, count of Flanders who became one of the most influential figures of 11th-century Europe. He was an active, enterprising man and greatly extended his power by wars and alliances. He obtained from the Holy Roman emperor Henry IV the territory between the Scheldt and the Dender as an imperial fief, as well as the margravate of Antwerp. So powerful had he become that on the decease of Henry I of France he was appointed regent during the minority of Philip I (1060-66). Before his death he saw his eldest daughter Matilda (d. 1083) sharing the English throne with William the Conqueror; saw his eldest son, Baldwin of Mons, in possession of Hainaut in right of his wife Richilde, heiress of Regnier V (d. 1036); and saw his second son, Robert the Frisian, regent (voogd) of the county of Holland. [source: Ketil Ken Nygaard's Genealogy, http://nygaard.howards.net/]

Baldwin married Adèla de France Princess of France, daughter of Robert II 'the Pious' Capet Roi de France and Constance de Provence, in 1028.¹ (Adèla de France Princess of France was born in 1009 in France ¹ and died on 8 Jan 1079 in Messinesmonastre, France ¹.)