Baudoin d\' Avesnes (1219 † 1295)

Baudouin of AVESNE, Knight, sgr of Beaumont. Chronicler of the 13° century (1219 - 1289).

Born in 1219, of a marriage not recognized by the church (his/her father Bouchard d' Avesne being deacon), and his mother, Marguerite of Constantinople remariée with Guillaume de Dampierre, seeking to make admit its illegitimacy to support his children of the second marriage, he was however recognized, with his brother Jean d' Avesnes, like wire legitimate on intervention of Saint Louis and from the papal legate and obtained Beaumont in prerogative since 1246. The pope Innocent IV itself confirmed this sentence on April 17th, 1250.

In fight with his uterine mother and his brothers, one claimed that with his brother Jean d' Avesne, count de Hainaut, it was responsible for the accident which cost the life the one of his/her half-brothers during a tournament with Trazégnies in 1251: Guillaume de Dampierre was indeed trampled there by horses.

After the known as one of Fibula (1256), and the death of his/her brother Jean, it was reconciled with his/her mother who sent it even on mission reprisals to Namur in 1263.

In 1287 Baudouin d' Avesne sold Dunkirk and Warneton to the count de Flandre Guy de Dampierre, count de Flandre. He is the author of a Universal Chronicle, which is summarized in fact with the genealogical history of the house of Hainaut.

He married Félicité on COUCY, girl of Thomas de Coucy and Mahaud de Rethel of which he had children.

He founded a vault among cordeliers of Valencians and instituted in this city a commercial festival the day of the Mathieu Saint.

Died in Quesnoy in April 1289. Buried on April 10th, 1289 at Cordeliers of Valencians in a marble tomb enters the chorus and the vault St Jacques. Its epitaph was thus written: “Noble Ci-gist knight Bauduin d' Avesnes, lord of Beaumont, second wire of Marguerite countess of Flandres and Hainau, which trespassed the year mcclxxxix”.

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