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Azelin

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  • Name Azelin  
    Gender Male 
    Person ID I7456  Petersen-de Lanskoy
    Last Modified 27 May 2021 

    Father Baudouin III,   b. Abt 940,   d. 1 Jan 962  (Age ~ 22 years) 
    Family ID F3275  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • RESEARCH_NOTES:
      1. “Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial & Medieval Families,” Douglas Richardson (2013):
      “BAUDOUIN III, joint Count of Flanders, Lay-abbot of Saint-Bertin, son and heir apparent, born about 940. He married in 961 MATHILDE OF SAXONY, daughter of Hermann Billung, Duke of Saxony, by his wife, Oda. They had one son, Arnulf (II) [Marquis of Flanders]. By an unknown mistress, he also had an illegitimate son, Azelin [Bishop of Paris]. BAUDOUIN III, joint Count of Flanders, died 1 Jan. 962, and was buried in the Abbey of Saint-Bertin in Saint-Omer. His widow, Mathilde, married (2nd) about 963 GODEFROID (or GOTTFRIED), Count of Verdun, before 965-after 997, Count in Bidgau, 959, and in Methingau, 960, 963, Marquis/duke of Eename. They had five sons, Frederic (or Friedrich) [Count of Verdun, Provost of Saint-Vaast], Adalberon [Bishop of Verdun], Hermann [Count of Eename, Count of Brabant], Godefroid (or Gottfried) [Duke of Lower Lorraine], and Gozelo (I) [Duke of Lower Lorraine, Duke of Upper Lorraine, Marquis of Antwerp], and one daughter, Ermengarde (wife of Otto von Hammerstein, Count in Wetterau). Count Godefroid died 3 September, 997 or later. Mathilde died 25 May 1009.
      Histoire des Comtes de Flandre (1698): 20-26. Panckoucke Abrégé Chronologique de l'Histoire de Flandre (1762): 22-24. Galopin Historiae Flandricae (1781): 7-9. Oudegherst Annales de Flandre 1 (1789): 173-174. De Smet Recueil des Chroniques de Flandre 1 (1837): 525 (Chronicorum Flandriae sub A.D. 962: "Arnulphus, comes Flandriae, nimio gravatus senio, Balduino juveni filio suo resignat comitatum; sed ipse ante pattern ex variolae morbo mortuus est."). Kervyn de Volkaersbeke Les Églises de Gand 2 (1838): 218-220. Wauters Table Chronologique des Chartes et Diplômes Imprimés 1 (1866): 363. Compte-rendu des Séances de la Commission Royale d'Histoire 5th Ser. 9 (1898): 142-180 (sub Comtes de Flandre). Brandenburg Die Nachkommen Karls des Großen (1935) VII 46. Strecker Die Lateinischen Dichter des Deutschen Mittelalters (Monumenta Germaniæ Historica: Die Ottonenzeit 5(1)) (1937): 297-300. Schwennicke Europäische Stammtafeln 2 (1984): 5 (sub Flanders). Winter Descs. of Charlemagne (800-1400) (1987): VII.98, VIII.122. Tanner Fams., Friends, & Allies (2004): 300 (chart).”