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 (died 1190)

English cleric, archbishop of Canterbury 1184–90. By forbidding bishops from being consecrated at any other cathedral, he established Canterbury as the foremost archbishopric in England. He conducted the investiture of Richard (I) the Lion-Heart at Westminster in 1189, and in the following year joined his king on the Third Crusade. He died at the port of Acre in the Holy Land.

Baldwin became a monk and later abbot in the Cistercian abbey of Ford, Devonshire. In 1180 he became bishop of Worcester. In 1184 Henry II appointed him archbishop of Canterbury.

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.