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http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/FLANDERS,%20HAINAUT.htm BAUDOUIN, so n of BAUDOUIN IV "le Barbu/Pulchrae Barbae" Count of Flanders & his fi rst wife Ogive de Luxembourg ([1012/13]-Lille 1 Sep 1067, bur Lille S t Pierre [1]). The ''Genealogica Comitum Flandriæ Bertiniana'' name s "Balduinum Insulanum" as son of "Balduinum Barbatum [et] Odgivam" [2 ]. After 1028, he led a rebellion against his father who was forced t o take refuge in Normandy. After his father returned with reinforcemen ts, Baudouin submitted but was allowed to rule jointly [3]. He succeed ed his father in 1035 as BAUDOUIN V "le Pieux/Insulanus" Count of Flan ders. He acquired overlordship of the county of Lens from the counts o f Boulogne [4]. The ''Liber traditionum'' of Gant Saint-Pierre commemo rates the donations of "Baldwinus junior marchysus filius Baldwini mar chysi et Odgevæ comitissæ cum conjuge sua Adala", undated [5]. He to ok part in the Lotharingian rebellion against Emperor Heinrich III an d sacked the imperial palace at Nijmegen. Emperor Heinrich gathere d a large army to wreak revenge in 1049 [6], but in practical terms th e only loss to Flanders was the march of Antwerp [7]. Count Baudouin r eturned Valenciennes to Hainaut, and thus indirectly to German suzerai nty [8]. He maintained close relations with Godwin Earl of Wessex, fir st sheltering the latter´s son Svein after he was outlawed in 1049, t hen Earl Godwin himself when he was exiled from England in 1051. Emper or Heinrich III invaded Flanders again in 1054 but had to retreat [9] . On the death of Henri I King of France in 1060, Count Baudouin becam e regent of France for his nephew King Philippe I. The ''Annales Bland inienses'' record the death in 1067 of "Baldwinus potentissimus marchi sus" [10]. [1] ''Annales Elnonenses Maiores'' 1067, MGH SS V, p. 13 , which records his death "Kal Sept" and his burial "Insulæ". [2] '' Genealogica Comitum Flandriæ Bertiniana'' MGH SS IX, p. 306. [3] Nic holas (1992), p. 48. [4] Murray (2000), p. 28. [5] ''Liber tradition um sancti Petri Blandiniensis'', 113, p. 105. [6] ''Anglo-Saxon Chron icle'' C, 1047, and D 1048 [1047]. [7] Nicholas (1992), p. 50. [8] N icholas (1992), p. 46. [9] Nicholas (1992), p. 51. [10] ''Annales Bl andinienses'' 1067, MGH SS V, p. 26.