Baudouin V of Hainaut

See also: Baudouin Ier, Baudouin V

Baudouin V of Hainaut (C. 1150 - December 17th 1195 with Mons), known as Baudouin the Courageous , was count de Hainaut of 1171 with 1195, count de Flandre under the name of Baudouin VIII of Flanders of 1191 with 1194 and marquis de Namur under the name of Baudouin Ier of 1187 with 1195. He is the son of the count Baudouin IV of Hainaut and Alix de Namur.

Its life

He marries in 1169 with the Quesnoy the girl of powerful the count de Flandre Thierry of Alsace, Marguerite. The marriage makes it possible to regulate the dispute which existed in connection with Douai; the city is kept in the Flanders in exchange of part of the dowry.

Baudouin endeavors to subdue with firmness the quarrels of his barons. He approaches his brother-in-law Philippe of Alsace by a treaty of alliance (1177) which designates it as putative heir to the Flanders. Philippe incites it to give his daughter Isabelle in marriage to the king de France Philippe II, equipped sumptuously with the Artois (1180).

The conflict which bursts shortly after between the king and the count de Flandre puts Baudouin in a situation quickly uncomfortable. Initially faithful to Flemish alliance (1180 - 1184), he sees himself obliged to fight against the duke of the Brabant Henri Guerroyeur, combined of the king, then must preserve the interests of his daughter at the edge of repudiation. The count de Flandre finally refuses to support it against Henri. It is the rupture. The more so as, subtly, the king indicated it (without its knowledge) executor of the trève which it signed with Compiegne in 1185 with the count de Flandre, causing the fury of this one. Peace is finally concluded in 1186 after an invasion from Hainaut, Philippe of Alsace fearing from now on to be in its turn taken out of vice.

Baudouin had been also designated successor of the county of Namur by his holder, Henri the Blind man, without posterity. The agreement had been ratified formally by the emperor Frederic Barberousse in 1184 with Mainz. The count receives even in 1187 the titulature of the county set up in marquisat. However, in 1186 is born a girl in Henri the Blind man. The count de Namur denounces the preceding agreement then to make to his/her Ermesinde girl her heiress. A war follows which Baudouin at the time of the battle of Noville-on-Mehaigne gains (1194), where, in spite of a strong numerical inferiority, its troops crush those of the counts de Namur, Holland, Juliers and Dagsbourg, of the dukes of the Brabant and Limbourg. Henri keeps the marquisat in life annuity, but the heritage passes to its death (1196) to Baudouin.

Meanwhile, Baudouin had become count de Flandre with died of Philippe of Alsace (1191). Delicate succession because the widow of Philippe, Mathilde of Portugal, already equipped with an important douaire, is agitated to increase it more, and that the operation proceeded in the absence of the king of France then in the East. Finally Mathilde is déboutée of its claims and Philippe Auguste accepts the homage of new the count de Flandre, taking with the passage a feudal relief of 5000 money marcs.

The November 15th 1194 dies Marguerite of Alsace and the county of Flanders (amputee from now on of the Artois) passes to their son Baudouin IX of Flanders. Baudouin detaches the marquisat of Namur for a puîné son, Philippe Noble the, the Namurian one remaining liege stronghold of Hainaut henceforth (it will remain it until Philippe the Good).

Baudouin V dies the December 18th 1195 with Mons. He is buried in the Holy-Waudru church.

Descent

Of its marriage with Marguerite Ière of Flanders it had 7 children:
  • Isabelle de Hainaut (° 1170 - † 1190), married with the king Philippe II of France
  • Baudouin IX of Flanders (° 1171 - † 1205), count de Flandre, of Hainaut and Latin Emperor of Constantinople
  • Yolande of Flanders (° 1175 - † 1219), married with Pierre II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople
  • Philippe Ier Noble the, marquis de Namur (° 1175 - † 1212)
  • Henri of Flanders (° 1176 - † 1216), Latin Emperor of Constantinople
  • Sybille (° 1179 - † 1217), married to Guichard IV lord de Beaujeu
  • Eustace († 1219), regent of the kingdom of Thessalonique

Sources and bibliography

  • Glay Edward: History of counts de Flandre until the advent of the House of Burgundy , Counter of Printer-plain, Paris, MDCCCXLIII
  • Dumont Georges-Henri: History of Belgium , History the Cry, Brussels 1977, ISBN 2-87106-182-3
  • Douxchamps Cecile and Jose: Our dynastes medieval , Wepion-Namur 1996, Jose Douxchamps, editor; ISBN 29600078-1-6

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