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Baldwin

Name of several counts of Flanders. Baldwin I (died 879), called ‘Bras de fer’ (Iron Arm), married Judith, the daughter of Charles II (the Bald), without her father's knowledge, which brought about war between Flanders and Aquitaine.

Baldwin V ‘Le Debonnaire’ (died 1067) was guardian to Philip, the young king of France, 1060-67. His daughter Matilda married William the Conqueror, whom he accompanied to England on the Norman Conquest.

Baldwin IX (c. 1171-1205) became the first Latin (Western European) emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

Baldwin

Municipality in Hempstead town, New York, on the southern shore of Long Island, 45 km/28 mi east of Manhattan; population (1990) 22,700. It was settled by the Dutch in the 1640s. It is now primarily a bedroom community, with some light manufacturing and a boating and fishing industry.

Baldwin

Town in southwestern Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh; population (1990) 21,900. It is situated on the Monongahela River in a coalmining region.



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