The Counts of Flanders

[An Ard Ri]

Baldwin VIII (1150-1195)was also Count of Hainaut,Marquis de Namur and lord of Beaumont.He was the son of Baudouin IV of Hainaut and Alix de Namur ,he married Margaret I, Countess of Flanders .

Baldwin VIII and Margaret I of Flanders

Their eldest daughter Isabelle de Hainault, married Philip II of France whilst another daughter Yolande de Hainaut became Latin Empress upon her marriage to Pierre II de Courtenay in 1193.

[An Ard Ri]

It seems the burial sites of the Counts of Flanders were not so fortunate most of the tombs were vandalized or destroyed by the rampaging Calvinists during the iconoclastic fury of 1566,what ever survived were desecrated and dumped by the French Revolutionary forces 1793-1795.

Example of the tombs at the now destroyed Collégiale Saint-Pierre de Lille

Tombeau de Louis de Male, Marguerite de Brabant et Marguerite de Dampierre




Tomb of Louis I of Flanders at the now destroyed St. Donatian's Cathedral in Bruges.

[CyrilVladisla]

Charles, Count of Flanders was assassinated by his rivals in 1127.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfFnsnOgwqs