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- Wikipedia (translated from French)-Judith_de_Flandre in 1051 to Tostig Godwinson,Earl of Northumberland,and in 1071 with Welf IV,Duke of Bavaria.o which she also left the relic inherited from Baudouin V in 1067, which, according to legend, contains a drop of Jesus' blood mixed with earth. This is the origin of the procession of the Holy Blood in Weingarten.ormandy and Judith of Brittany. She has a half-brother from the first marriage of her father, Baudouin V, Earl of Flanders, who succeeds their father when he died, which occurred when the young princess is only two years old (some historians claim that she is in fact the daughter of Baudouin V and not of Baudouin IV). eror, the first Norman king of England. Guillaume is also Judith's first cousin since <he was> the son of <her> maternal uncle, Duke Robert of Normandy. an unknown date before September 1051,J udith married her first husband, Tostig Godwinson, Harold's younger brother, who <was> briefly king of England in 1066 before being defeated at Hastings and killed by William the Conqueror. In September 1051, she was forced to flee England to take refuge in Bruges with her husband and in-laws after Tostig's participation in her father's armed rebellion against King Edward the Confessor. However, they returned to England the following year.cess helped him to establish his position at the head of the county.nered' at the time of their father's death. Tostig also appears to have had at least three natural sons of unknown mistresses. in the many gifts and gifts she offers to St Cuthbert's Church in Durham, including land and an ornate crucifix. The latter was said to have been a gift to the saint to appease her after she rebelled against the rule prohibiting women from accessing the cathedral where her relics were located. Judith, dissatisfied with the fact that she, as a woman, could not enter the church when she wished to gather at the saint's tomb, had decided to defy the ban by sending her maid inside the church to see what the repercussions would be (if all had gone smoothly, Judith then planned to go there herself); As the woman was about to enter the church cemetery, she was struck by a strong and sudden wind that left her crippled before killing her. Judith, in order to ward off fate, had the crucifix made especially for the tomb of Saint Cuthbert. Throughout her life, she collected and commissioned many illuminated books and manuscripts, some of which remain, including the Gospels of Countess Judith, currently held at the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York. They were made by English scribes and artists to remind posterity of Judith's generosity to the Church.ainst the government of Tostig. His brother, Harold, persuaded King Edward to accept the rebels' demands, which provoked an acrimonious exchange between the two brothers, with Tostig going so far as to accuse Harold of fomenting the rebellion. In November, Tostig was banished by King Edward and the couple had to flee with their children to take refuge with the Countess' half-brother in Flanders. Count Baudouin makes Tostig châtelain de Saint-Omer. In May 1066, with Harold's accession to the throne of England, Tostig returned to his country at the head of a fleet provided by Baudouin, in order to take revenge on his brother. He allied himself with King Harold III of Norway but both were killed on 25 September 1066 at the Battle of Stamford Bridge by King Harold's forces.ld (Bayeux Tapestry).er to Skuli Konungsfestri, the founder of Norway's Inge II dynasty, as Tostig's son, but Heimskringla attributes different ancestors to him. There is no text that mentions Judith as <his> mother. Less than a month after Tostig's death, Harold was killed at the Battle of Hastings by the Norman army led by his cousin William the Conqueror, who ascended to the throne as William I of England.Bavaria. With this marriage, she became Duchess of Bavaria, but in 1077 her husband was stripped of his title, which he did not recover until 1096, a year after his wife's death. Castle their main residence and bore three children: † 13 December 1126) ;Abbey, where she was buried when she died on March 5, 1095. The abbey had been built by Duke Welf at the top of the Martinsberg in Weingarten and had been placed under the patronage of Judith. Her husband died in 1101 in Cyprus upon his return from the First Crusade.
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