Biography of Charles Estrigen I Count Flanders 1084-1127

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1127 Murder of Charles Count of Flanders

In 1080 [his father] King Canute "The Holy" IV of Denmark (age 38) and [his mother] Adela Flanders Queen Consort Denmark (age 16) were married. She by marriage Queen Consort Denmark. The difference in their ages was 22 years. She the daughter of Robert "The Frisian" I Count Flanders (age 47) and Gertrude Billung Countess Holland (age 50). He the son of King Sweyn II of Denmark.

In 1084 Charles Estrigen I Count Flanders was born to King Canute "The Holy" IV of Denmark (age 42) and Adela Flanders Queen Consort Denmark (age 20).

On 10 Jul 1086 [his father] King Canute "The Holy" IV of Denmark (age 44) was killed at St Alban's Priory Odense.

In Apr 1115 [his mother] Adela Flanders Queen Consort Denmark (age 51) died.

In 1118 Charles Estrigen I Count Flanders (age 34) and Marguerite Clermont Countess Flanders (age 13) were married. The difference in their ages was 21 years. She the daughter of Renaud II Count Clermont (age 43) and Adelaide I Countess Vermandois. He the son of King Canute "The Holy" IV of Denmark and Adela Flanders Queen Consort Denmark.

Battle of Bures-en-Bray

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1119. In this same year died the Pope Gelasius, on this side of the Alps, and was buried at Clugny. And after him the Archbishop of Vienna was chosen pope, whose name was Calixtus. He afterwards, on the festival of St. Luke the Evangelist, came into France to Rheims, and there held a council. And the Archbishop Turstin of York went thither; and, because that he against right, and against the archiepiscopal stall in Canterbury, and against the king's (age 51) will, received his hood at the hands of the pope, the king (age 51) interdicted him from all return to England. And thus he lost his archbishopric, and with the pope went towards Rome. In this year also died the Earl Baldwin of Flanders (age 26) of the wounds that he received in Normandy. And after him succeeded to the earldom Charles (age 35), the son of his [his father] uncle by the father's side, who was son of Cnute, the holy King of Denmark.

On or before 17 Jul 1119 at the Battle of Bures-en-Bray King Henry I "Beauclerc" England (age 51) fought against the army of Louis "Fat" VI King France (age 37).

Baldwin VII Count Flanders (age 26) who was killed. His first cousin Charles Estrigen I Count Flanders (age 35) succeeded I Count Flanders. [his wife] Marguerite Clermont Countess Flanders (age 14) by marriage Countess Flanders.

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 1120. This year were reconciled the King of England (age 52) and the King of France (age 38); and after their reconciliation all the King Henry's (age 52) own men accorded with him in Normandy, as well as the Earl of Flanders (age 36) and the Earl of Ponthieu (age 27). From this time forward the King Henry (age 52) settled his castles and his land in Normandy [Map] after his will; and so before Advent came to this land.

On 02 Mar 1127 Charles Estrigen I Count Flanders (age 43) was murdered at Church of St Donatian. His second cousin William Clito Normandy Count Flanders (age 24) succeeded Count Flanders. Sibylla Anjou Countess Essex and Flanders (age 15) by marriage Countess Flanders.

1127 Murder of Charles Count of Flanders

Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. 02 Mar 1127. In the Lent-tide of this same year was the Earl Charles of Flanders (age 43) slain in a church, as he lay there and prayed to God, before the altar, in the midst of the mass, by his own men.

In 1145 [his former wife] Marguerite Clermont Countess Flanders (age 40) died.

Alberic Dammartin and Mathilde Clermont were married. She the daughter of Renaud II Count Clermont and Adelaide I Countess Vermandois.

Raoul Beaugency and Mathilde Capet were married. She the daughter of Hugh "Great" Capet and Adelaide I Countess Vermandois.