Hildegard van Vlaanderen, 936/7-975/80, ca. 949 married graaf Dirk n.: Dese Diederic goet ende waert Hadde een wijf, hiet Hildegaert, 600 Hovesch van seden ende van leven Ende vol doghentachticheden...[1]
Hildegard van Vlaanderen (born 936/937 – died. 975/980), by marriage she became countess (gravin) van Holland. Daughter of Arnulf I, graaf van Vlaanderen (885/890-965) and Adela van Vermandois (910/915-960). Hildegard van Vlaanderen married in 948 or 949 Dirk II, graaf van Holland en West-Friesland (936/941-988). From this marriage at least two sons and one daughter were born [2]
Aarnout (Gent 951-993), ook wel Arnulf Gandensis genoemd, die zijn opvolger werd [3]
Egbert van Trier (952-994), aartsbisschop van Trier [3]
possibly an Unknown daughter who married graaf Everhard van Doornik.[3]
Diederik II died in 988. He was buried in the new abbey church of Egmond, in the grave in which Hildegard was buried eight years earlier. Their gospel book remained in the abbey for six centuries, then swirled around, and resurrected in Utrecht in 1805. Thanks to King Willem I, it has been in the Royal Library since 1830 [4]
↑ Koninklijke Bibliotheek Nationale bibliotheek van Nederland Evangeliarium van Egmond blog, 9 mei 2012 Collectiespecialist Ed van der Vlist
Evangeliarium van EgmondThe Evangelium of Egmond is a parchment handwriting that has become famous because Count Dirk and Countess Hildegard of 'Holland' had their image added to it in 975. More than a thousand years later, Dirk and Hildegard are the oldest Dutch of whom an image exists.
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I think I was more concerned about the point that Adelaide was probably not her mother. That if Hildegard is a daughter of Arnulf, then it is more likely she is the with an unnamed earlier wife.
There is a discussion of Hildegard and her parents by Stewart Baldwin on this page (scroll down to the commentary section) http://home.earthlink.net/~henryproject/hproject/prov/arnul000.htm Based on that I would also query the source for the 10 Apr 990 death date that is currently on this profile.
I think it's because Arnulf is mentioned as the father in law of Dirk, will check the Rijmkroniek again, I read something there about it ..
No idea where the date of death comes from ..