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Baldwin VI (Template:C. 1030 – 17 July 1070), also known as Baldwin the Good, was the count of Hainaut from 1051 to 1070 (as Baldwin I) and count of Flanders from 1067 to 1070.
Baldwin was the eldest son of Baldwin V of Flanders and Adela, a daughter of King Robert II of France<ref name="ESII5"/><ref>Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, Trans. Laura Napran (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005), p. 4</ref> and Constance of Arles.<ref>Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 187</ref> His father arranged his marriage, under threat of arms, to Richilde, the widow of Herman of Mons and heir of Hainaut.<ref name="PREF147">Renée Nip, 'The Political Relations Between England and Flanders (1066–1128)', Anglo-Norman Studies 21: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1998, Ed. Christopher Harper-Bill (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1989), p. 147.</ref> As Hainaut was a part of the Holy Roman Empire this enraged Emperor Henry III, who had not been consulted, causing him to wage war on the two Baldwins without success.<ref name="PREF147"/> Between 1050 and 1054 Count Lambert II of Lens fought alongside the Baldwins against Henry III. Lambert found that this alliance best protected his interests.<ref group=lower-alpha>Lambert II was reported to have died in 1054 at Lille fighting on the side of the Counts Baldwin against Henry III. See John Carl Andressohn, The ancestry and life of Godfrey of Bouillon (Ayer Publishing, 1972), p. 20. Others fighting for the Counts of Flanders against Henry III included the lords of Alost. See Heather J. Tanner, Families, Friends, and Allies (Leiden: Brill, 2004), pp. 87–88 n. 74.</ref><ref>Heather J. Tanner, Families, Friends, and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, c.879–1160 (Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2004), p. 87</ref>
Baldwin VI died on 17 July 1070.<ref name="ESII5">Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Marburg, Germany: Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, 1984), Tafel 5</ref> Baldwin had constructed the church of St. Peter's of Hasnon, placed monks there and designated it as his burial place.<ref>Herman (of Tournai), The Restoration of the Monastery of Saint Martin of Tournai, Ed. Lynn Harry Nelson (Catholic University of America Press, 1996), p. 27</ref> His early death left Flanders and Hainaut in the hands of his young son, Arnulf III, with Richilde as regent.<ref>Renée Nip, 'The Political Relations between England and Flanders (1066–1128)', Anglo-Norman Studies 21: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1998, Ed. Christopher Harper-Bill (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999), p. 154</ref> Arnulf III was killed at the Battle of Cassel in 1071.<ref>Renée Nip, 'The Political Relations between England and Flanders (1066–1128)', Anglo-Norman Studies 21: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1998, Ed. Christopher Harper-Bill (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 1999), p. 155</ref> Baldwin VI's younger son, Count Baldwin II of Hainaut,<ref name="ESII5"/> could not claim Flanders from Baldwin VI's brother, Robert I.<ref>Gilbert of Mons, Chronicle of Hainaut, Trans. Laura Napran (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2005), p. 6</ref>
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