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Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut

Baldwin V of Hainaut (1150 – 17 December 1195) was count of Hainaut (1171–1195), margrave of Namur as Baldwin I (1189–1195) and count of Flanders as Baldwin VIII (1191–1195).

Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut

1150

(1195-12-17)17 December 1195 (age 45)

House of Flanders

Margaret I, Countess of Flanders

Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut

Alice of Namur

History[edit]

He was the son of Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut. In the winter of 1182 on 1183, the Count of Namur-Luxembourg was seriously ill and completely blind, whereupon Baldwin immediately visited him in Luxembourg. There he was reconfirmed as heir by his uncle and was able to receive the homage of several vassals from him. The succession was confirmed by Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa on 22 May 1184 at the Diet of Pentecost in Mainz, on which Baldwin acted as imperial sword bearer. Flanders was acquired via his marriage to his widowed third cousin once removed Margaret I of Flanders, Countess of Flanders in 1169.[1] Namur was acquired from his mother Alice of Namur. He was described as "The Count Baldwin with eyes of blue."[2]


He was buried at the monastery of Saint Waudru before the altar of Blessed James the apostle.[3]

(Valenciennes, April 1170 – 15 March 1190, Paris), married king Philip II of France[4]

Isabelle of Hainaut

(1171–1205), also count of Flanders and Latin Emperor

Baldwin VI of Hainaut

(1175–1219), married Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor

Yolanda of Flanders

(1175–1212)

Philip I of Namur

(1176–1216), Latin Emperor

Henry of Flanders

Sybille of Hainaut (1179 – 9 January 1217), married c. 1197 Guichard IV, Sire de (d. 1216)[4]

Beaujeu

(d. 1219), regent of the Kingdom of Thessalonica, married in 1209 to a daughter, name unknown, of Michael I Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus

Eustace of Flanders

Godfrey of Hainaut

With Margaret, Baldwin had the following issue:

Counts of Hainaut family tree

Counts of Flanders family tree

Bouchard, Constance Brittain (1987). Sword, Miter, and Cloister: Nobility and the Church in Burgundy, 980-1198. Cornell University Press.

(2005). Chronicle of Hainaut. Translated by Napran, Laura. The Boydell Press.

Gislebert of Mons

Nicholas, David M (1992). Medieval Flanders. Routledge.