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The early years of Baldwin's rule were marked by a series of devastating Viking raids into Flanders where Little north of the Somme was left untouched.[] By 883 he was forced northward to the flat marshes of the pagus flandransis which became the territory most closely associated with the counts of Flanders from that time on.[4] Baldwin constructed a series of wooden fortifications at Saint-Omer, Bruges, Ghent, and Courtrai and seized those lands abandoned by royal and ecclesiastical officials. Many of these same citadels later formed castellanies housing government, militia and local courts.

Birth	865	Flanders, Nord, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France
Death	10 Sep 918	Blandinberg, Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium

Spouse	Elfrida Elfthryth WESSEX (877 - 920)
Child	Arnulf I "The Great" DE FLANDERS (890 - 965)

Father	Baldwin I DE FLANDERS (837 - 879)
Mother	Judith DE BOURGOGNE (844 - 870)
Sibling	Widnille DE FLANDERS (865 - )