RICHILDE, COUNTESS OF MONS AND HAINAUT

'Richilde, Countess of Mons and Hainaut' (c. 1031 - 15 March, 1086).

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History

Family

References

History

Since her father is named Reginar, she has often been mistakenly recorded a daughter of Regnier V of Mons, who was actually her father-in-law. Her mother would descend from the counts of Egisheim.
She was married firstly to Herman of Mons, count of Hainaut, son of Reginar V, count of Mons and Mathilde of Verdun, circa 1043. They served as co-rulers in Mons and Hainaut from 1039 to 1051.
Soon after the death of Herman, Richilde married Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders. By their marriage Flanders took control of the County of Hainaut (at that moment still a conglomerate of the county of Mons, the margraviate of Valenciennes and the southern county out of the Brabant shire). When she was fifty-two Richilde made an alliance with Philip I of France and led her troops into battle against her second husband.

Family

Richilde and Baldwin were parents of:

★ Arnulf III, Count of Flanders (c. 1055 - February 22, 1071).

★ Baldwin II, Count of Hainaut (c. 1056 - 1098).

★ Agnes of Flanders
Baldwin VI died on July 17, 1070. Richilde served as Regent for their son Arnulf III.
In 1071 Richilde thirdly married to William Fitzosbern, 1st Earl of Hereford (c. 1025-1071).

References

★ Salmonson, Jessica Amanda.(1991) ''The Encyclopedia of Amazons''. Paragon House. Page 222. ISBN 1-55778-420-5

★ The Family History of Robert Brian Stewart

★ Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis, Line 163-23.