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Judith of Flanders (circa 843 – 870 or later) was a Carolingian princess who became Queen of Wessex by two successive marriages and later Countess of Flanders. Judith was the eldest child of the Carolingian emperor Charles the Bald and his first wife, Ermentrude of Orléans. In 856, she married Æthelwulf, King of Wessex.
Judith of Flanders (1030-1035 to 5 March 1095) was, by her successive marriages to Tostig Godwinson and Welf I, Countess of Northumbria and Duchess of Bavaria. She was the owner of many books and illuminated manuscripts , which she bequeathed to Weingarten Abbey (two of which are now held at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York).
Jul 21, 2019 · Judith of France (843/844–870), also known as Judith of Flanders, was married to two Saxon English kings, first the father and then the son. She was also both stepmother and sister-in-law of Alfred the Great.
Judith of Flanders was a Flemish noble-woman widely recognized for her artistic patronage. Her parents were Baldwin V, count of Flanders, and Adela Capet; her sister was Matilda of Flanders. At about 18 years old, Judith was married to the Anglo-Saxon knight Tostig Godwinson and moved to England.
Mar 15, 2021 · Judith of Flanders was the daughter of Baldwin IV, Count of Flanders and his second wife, a daughter of the Duke of Normandy. Baldwin was thirty years older than his wife. Judith was born around 1031.
Judith of Flanders is among those women. Judith’s life spanned a period of political turmoil for Europe and England, including events surrounding the Norman Conquest and the investiture dispute in the Holy Roman Empire. This, alongside her family ties and marital situation,
Dec 10, 2022 · In 1063–1070, Judith of Flanders commissioned four deluxe Gospel books. Two are in New York (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library MS M.708 and MS M.709); the others are in Italy and Germany (Monte Cassino, Archivio della Badia, Cod. 437; Fulda, Hessische Landesbibliothek, Cod. Aa.21).
Judith of Flanders (Wife of Tostig of Northumbria and Welf of Bavaria) Date of Birth: 1030×1036. (based on the fact that her father's first wife died in 1030, and her father died in May of 1035) Place of Birth: Unknown. Date of Death: 5 March 1094. [Decker-Hauff (1956), 46 (n. 34), citing the Weingarten Necrology] Place of Death: Unknown.
In the first full-length study of Judith of Flanders (c. 1032-1094), Mary Dockray-Miller provides a narrative of Judith’s life through analysis of the books and art objects she commissioned and collected.
