Baldwin III, Count of Hainaut

The broken betrothal caused a scandal, and Countess Clemence brought the issue before her brother Pope Calixtus II.

[1] Baldwin died at a young age of c. 33 in 1120, and was buried in Mons, Belgium.

His younger son Gerard inherited the counties of Dodewaard and Dale, which had been in the possession of his mother.

Countess Yolande held Hainaut as her dower for a while and as a regent for her son.

[2] Yolande and Godfrey II had two children: This biographical article of a European noble is a stub.