House of Flanders: Difference between revisions

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Flanders, Baldwins, Balduini, Baudouinides, Boudewijns

Coat of Arms
House of Flanders
Counts of Flanders
Attributed 'ancient arms'
from c. 1400
Originally adopted by successors as Counts of Rethel, from the Armoises family

Cadet branches
House of Boulogne
Counts of Boulogne
House of Hainaut
Counts of Hainaut and Flanders
House of Vilain de Gand
Castellans of Ghent
Counts and Princes of Isenghien

Personal Arms
William of Ypres
Lords of Viggezele and Loo
Earl of Kent
Illegitimate son of Philip of Loo, younger son of Robert I of Flanders
Progenitor of Vilain de Gand family
Conjectured tincures

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-Flandern Ancient.svg | House of Flanders<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Counts of Flanders<br>Attributed Arms</span>
+Flandern Ancient.svg | House of Flanders<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Counts of Flanders<br>Attributed 'ancient arms'<br>from c. 1400<br>Originally adopted by successors as Counts of Rethel, from the Armoises family</span><!-- Armoises-Charbogne-Rethel passing as Flanders ancient in late medieval rolls = Burgundian "ancient Flanders" attribution after 1384 = Originally introduced as personal arms of Jeanne de Rethel, countess of Flanders & Rethel who adopted them from Nicolas de Charbogne, Count of Rethel late 13th c. (Wijnbergen 825/864-867) - Both personal & apocryphal arms for different reasons and at different periods -->
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 Hainaut Ancient.svg|[[House of Hainaut]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Counts of Hainaut and Flanders</span>
 Gand.svg|[[House of Vilain de Gand]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Castellans of Ghent<br>Counts and Princes of Isenghien</span><!-- Issued from Philip of Loo, younger son of Robert I of Flanders who had an illegitimate son named William of Ypres, this William was the father of Steppo van Viggezele who married the heiress of Ghent thus started the family known as "Vilain de Gand" -->
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+William of Ypres.svg|William of Ypres<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Lords of Viggezele and Loo<br>Earl of Kent<br>Illegitimate son of Philip of Loo, younger son of Robert I of Flanders<br>Progenitor of Vilain de Gand family<br>Conjectured tincures</span><!-- Said to have the arms with a lion passant. The theory is that his cousin Philip of Alsace was in fact inspired by this arms supposedly brought by Wiliam from England was the inspiration for the arms of Flanders which was ofc changed so that the lion changed the stance from passant to rampant -->
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