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Birth:          ABT  898 
Death:           933 

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelolf,_Count_of_Boulogne
Adelolf, Count of Boulogne[a] († 933), was a younger brother of Arnulf I, Count of 
Flanders and was given the County of Boulogne by his father.

He was a son of Baldwin II, Count of Flanders, and of Ælfthryth, daughter of Alfred the 
Great.[1] He was probably named for his maternal great-grandfather, King Æthelwulf of 
Wessex.[2] Baldwin II's extensive lands and many offices in what is now the north of 
modern France and the west of Belgium were divided among his sons on his death in 
918.[3] The elder, Arnulf, became Count of Flanders while Adelolf succeeded his 
father as count of Saint-Pol, Count of Boulogne and of Thérouanne.[3] He was also 
the lay abbot of the Abbey of Saint Bertinus (Saint-Bertin) at Saint-Omer.[4]

In 926 Adelolf was sent as an ambassador to his maternal first cousin King Æthelstan 
of England by Count Hugh the Great,[5] effective ruler of northern France under 
Rudolph, Duke of Burgundy, who had been elected king of France in 923. Adelolf was 
to seek the English king's agreement to a marriage between Hugh and another of 
Æthelstan's sisters.[6] Among the lavish gifts sent to Æthelstan, an avid collector of 
relics, were said to be the sword of the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and the 
Holy Lance. The embassy was a success and Hugh was married to Æthelstan's half-
sister Eadhild.[7] In 933, Æthelstan's half-brother Edwin was drowned and his body 
cast ashore. Adelolf received the body of his kinsman with honour and took it to the 
Abbey of Saint Bertin for burial.[8]

Adelolf was the father of Arnulf II, Count of Boulogne († 971), and of an illegitimate 
son named Baldwin (died 973) who was guardian of Arnulf II, Count of Flanders.[1] 
Adelolf died in 933.[9] He was buried at Saint-Bertin.

Parents
____ Baldwin II "the Bald" (ABT  863 - 10 Sep  918)
OF THE SAXONS (OF WESSEX) Alfthryth (Aelfthryth) (Elfleda) ( 877 - 7 Jun  929)

Siblings
____ Adelolf (ABT  898 -  933)
____ Arnulf (Arnold) (Arnoul) I "the Old" (ABT  899 - 28 Mar  965)

Marriage To DE CREQUY Mahaut (ABT  895 - )
    m.  

Notes


Children by DE CREQUY Mahaut ABT  895 - 
DE THEROUANNE Maude de St. Pol (ABT  918 - )
____ Arnulf I (ABT  922 -  971)

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