- Eleanore FitzRichard van Normandie, gravin van Vlaanderen
- 1030-1035: Countess consort of Flanders
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Eleanor of Normandy was born circa 1012 to Richard II, Duke of Normandy (963-1027) and Judith of Brittany (982-1017) and died after 1071 of unspecified causes. She married Baldwin IV of Flanders (980-1036) 1031 JL .
Eleanor of Normandy was Countess of Flanders by marriage to Baldwin IV of Flanders (980-1036).
She was born between 1011 and 1013 in Normandy, the daughter of Richard II, Duke of Normandy and Judith of Brittany (982-1017).[1] Eleanor had two sisters and three brothers, including Robert I, Duke of Normandy, father of William the Conqueror. In 1017, when Eleanor was still a child, her mother Judith died. Duke Richard married Poppa of Envermeu, by whom he had two more sons.
In 1031 she married, as his second wife, Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders,[2] who was about 30 years her senior. He had a son and heir, Baldwin, by his first marriage to Ogive of Luxembourg. Eleanor was styled Countess of Flanders upon her marriage to Baldwin, and together they had one daughter:{{{1}}} United States Federal Census, {{{2}}}, [[{{{3}}} County, {{{4}}}|{{{3}}} County]], [[{{{4}}}]].
- Judith of Flanders (c1030-?),[3] married firstly Tostig Godwinson,[4] Earl of Northumbria, by whom she allegedly had issue; and secondly Welf I, Duke of Bavaria,[5] by whom she had surviving issue.
Eleanor died in Flanders sometime after 1071. Her husband had died in 1035, two years after the birth of their only child.
Despite her common nomenclature it is not certain that Eleanor was her proper name. Eleanor of Aquitaine, who lived a century later (and married as her second husband Henry II of England, the great-great-grandson of Eleanor of Normandy's brother Robert), is the first individual in recorded history known to bear the name Eleanor.
Children
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Judith of Flanders (c1030-?) | 1033 Bruges | 5 March 1094 | Tostig Godwineson (1026-1066) Welf IV. von Bayern (c1035-1101) |
| Daughter of Flanders (?-?) | Regnier de Louvain (c1000-) | ||
Siblings
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Richard III of Normandy (997-1027) | 997 | 1027 | Adèle Unknown (c1000-) |
| Adelaide of Normandy (1002-1038) | 1002 | 1038 | Renaud I de Bourgogne (c990-1057) |
| Robert II, Duke of Normandy (c1000-1035) | 1000 Normandy, France | 22 July 1035 Nicaea, Bithynia, Turkey | Herleva of Falaise (1003-1050) Estrid Svendsdatter of Denmark (c997-c1065) |
| William of Normandy (c1008-aft1025) | 1008 | 1025 | |
| Eleanor of Normandy (c1012-aft1071) | 1012 | 1071 | Baldwin IV of Flanders (980-1036) |
| Matilda of Normandy (c1014-aft1033) | 1014 | 1033 | |
| Name | Birth | Death | Joined with |
| Mauger de Rouen (c1019-c1055) | 1019 | 1055 | |
| Guillaume de Talou (c1022-aft1054) | 1022 | 1054 | Beatrice de Ponthieu (c1035-c1082) |
See Also
- Eleanor Normandy
- Frederick Barbarossa Family Ancestry
- House of Flanders
- House of Normandy
Bibliographies
Judith of Flanders was the owner of many books and illuminated manuscripts, which she bequeathed to Weingarten Abbey (two of which are now held at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York).[6]
- The New Cambridge Medieval History. Cambridge University Press. 2006.
- B. Schneidmüller: Die Welfen. Herrschaft und Erinnerung (819–1252). (Stuttgart, 2000), pp. 119–123
- I.S. Robinson, Henry IV of Germany, 1056-1106 (Cambridge, 2003).
- M. Dockray-Miller, The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders (Farnham, 2015).
- Judith von Flandern, Herzogin von Bayern (in German)
External Links
- wikipedia:en:Eleanor of Normandy
- Eleonora de Normandie at thePeerage
- Eleanor of Normandy, Geni.com, https://www.geni.com/people/Lady-Eleanore-van-Normandie-gravin-van-Vlaanderen/6000000003051245269, retrieved 22 June 2023
- Ancestry of Bavarian Dukes, fmg.ac, http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BAVARIA.htm#Judithdied11301131, retrieved 22 June 2023
- Deed of Henry IX for Ranshofen Abbey, 30 July 1125, Photograph Archive of Old Original Documents (Lichtbildarchiv älterer Originalurkunden). University of Marburg.
Royal Succession Chart
| Preceded by Ogive of Luxembourg |
Countess consort of Flanders 1030–1035 |
Succeeded by Adela of France |
Notes and references
- ^ "Emma of Ivry, c.1008-1080", Charlotte Cartwright, Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400: Moving beyond the Exceptionalist Debate, editor Heather J. Tanner, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 94
- ^ The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, editor Michael Swanton, Routledge, 1998, 298
- ^ Mary Dockray-Miller,The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders, Routledge, 2015, 5
- ^ Mary Dockray-Miller,The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders, Routledge, 2015, 8
- ^ Mary Dockray-Miller,The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders, Routledge, 2015, 74
- ^ Gospels of Judith of Flanders, MS. M. 708, Morgan Library & Museum and Gospels of Judith of Flanders, MS. M. 709, Morgan Library & Museum. For discussion: Dockray-Miller, The Books and the Life of Judith of Flanders.