Individual Details
Judith de France
(844 - 870)
Daughter of Emperor Charles 'the Bald' and Ermentrudis of Orléans, Judith was about twelve when, on 1 October 856 at Verberie-sur-Oise, she was married to the sixty-one-year-old Aethelwulf, king of England. After his death on 13 January 858, she married his son Aethelbald, but this marriage was annulled. After her second husband died in 860 she returned to France, having sold the possessions which she had obtained in England, and returned to her father. She was kept in the city of Senlis with the honour due to a queen under the guardianship of her father until she could be properly married.
In 862, with the assistance of her brother Louis II, Judith eloped to Lorraine with Baudouin, about whom nothing is known definitively other than that his father was probably called Audacer or Odoacer. Charles did not accept his daughter's marriage and asked his bishops to excommunicate Baudouin and Judith. They responded by travelling to Rome to plead their case to Pope Nicholas I. When this was granted, Charles was forced to accept the marriage, and the couple returned to France and then officially married at Auxerre. Baudouin became one of Charles' most strong, secure and faithful supporters. Judith and Baudouin had two sons, of whom Baudouin II would have progeny.
Source: Leo van de Pas
In 862, with the assistance of her brother Louis II, Judith eloped to Lorraine with Baudouin, about whom nothing is known definitively other than that his father was probably called Audacer or Odoacer. Charles did not accept his daughter's marriage and asked his bishops to excommunicate Baudouin and Judith. They responded by travelling to Rome to plead their case to Pope Nicholas I. When this was granted, Charles was forced to accept the marriage, and the couple returned to France and then officially married at Auxerre. Baudouin became one of Charles' most strong, secure and faithful supporters. Judith and Baudouin had two sons, of whom Baudouin II would have progeny.
Source: Leo van de Pas
Events
| Birth | 844 | ||||
| Marriage | 862 | Count Baudouin I of Flandre | |||
| Death | 870 |
Families
| Spouse | Count Baudouin I of Flandre (830 - 879) |
| Child | Count Baudouin II of Flandre (863 - 918) |
| Father | Charles 'the Bald' Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire (823 - 877) |
| Mother | Ermentrudis of Orleans (830 - 869) |