The first count of this region eloped with Judith, a daughter of Charles the Bald, and his successor
The first count of this region eloped with Judith, a daughter of Charles the Bald, and his successor was also nicknamed "the Bald." Its counts included Arnulf I the Great, Thierry of Alsace, and Baldwin IX, the first emperor of the Latin Empire of Constantinople. William the Conqueror's wife Matilda hailed from here, and Henry VIII supposedly referred to Anne of Cleves as the Mare of this region. The modern provinces of Limburg and Antwerp can be found in, FTP, this region of Belgium which saw some of the bloodiest battles of WWI, leading John McCrae to compose a poem in its fields.
The first count of this region eloped with Judith, a daughter of Charles the Bald, and his successor was also nicknamed "the Bald."