Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut

Template:Short description Template:Infobox nobility Baldwin IV (1108 – 8 November 1171) was count of Hainaut from 1120 to his death.

Baldwin IV was the son of Count Baldwin III of Hainaut and Yolande de Wassenberg.<ref name="Napran40">Gislebertus (of Mons), Chronicle of Hainaut, transl. Laura Napran, (The Boydell Press, 2005), 40. </ref> Also known as Baldwin the Builder, he purchased the property of Ath in 1158 and built the Burbant tower. He ceded the locality of Braine-la-Willotte, also known as Braine-le-Comte, to the chapter of Sainte-Waudru in 1158. In 1159, he incorporated the seigniory of Chimay and in 1160 the châtellenies of Valencians and of Ostrevent.

Children

Baldwin IV married Alice,<ref name="Napran40" /> heiress of Namur, and had the following children:

• Yolande (1131–1202), married first to Ivo II, Count of Soissons,<ref name="Napran40" /> and second to Hugh IV, Count of St Pol<ref name="Napran40" />
• Baldwin (1134–1147)
• Agnes (1142–1168), married Ralph I, Lord of Coucy<ref name="Napran40" /> and had children including Yolande de Coucy, wife of Robert II, Count of Dreux.<ref>Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln, New Series, Vol. XXVII, Tafel 32.</ref>
• Geoffrey, Count of Ostervant (1147–1163), first husband of Eleanor, Countess of Vermandois
• Lauret(t)a (1150–1181), married first to Thierry of Alost,<ref name="Napran41">Gislebertus (of Mons), Chronicle of Hainaut, 41.</ref> and second to Bouchard V, Count of Montmorency<ref>Gislebertus (of Mons), Chronicle of Hainaut, 42.</ref>
• Baldwin V (1150–1195),<ref name="Napran41" /> also count of Flanders by his marriage to Margaret I of Flanders.

See also

• Counts of Hainaut family tree