Judith of Flanders, two Kings and a Count in twenty years.
Now following this blog which seems not to have been updated in years. That’s too bad because some Americans such as myself are descendants of these historical figures of ancient days!
Judith and her 3rd husband Baldwin
Judith of Flanders, (c 843 AD to c 870 AD) was the eldest daughter of the Frankish King and Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Bald and his wife Ermentrude of Orleans. Through her marriages too two different Kings of Wessex (Aethelwulf and Aethelbald) she was Queen twice. Her first two marriages were both childless. Her third marriage to Baldwin, Count of Flanders made her the first Countess of Flanders. One of her sons by Baldwin married Aelfthyth daughter of Aethelbald’s brother Alfred the Great. She was also an ancestor of Matilda of Flanders the Queen consort to William the Conqueror and thus the later monarchs of England. This places her quite highly as things stand in the history of both Wessex and England.
In 855 AD King Aethelwulf of Wessex, made a pilgrimage to Rome and on his way back in 856 AD he…
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Jude's Threshold 