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''Flanders, Baldwins, Balduini, Baudouinides, Boudewijns'' <gallery caption="Coat of Arms" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;"> 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 --> </gallery> <gallery caption="Cadet branches" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;"> Boulogne.svg|[[House of Boulogne]]<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">Counts of Boulogne</span> 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" --> </gallery> <gallery caption="Personal Arms" align=center style= "color: #292929;font-size:1.2em;font-weight: normal;text-align:center;font-style: normal;"> 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 --> </gallery>
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