caption father reign predecessor succession successor house death_date mother consort birth_date spouse issue image article_title type
a baldwin . nineteenth-century depiction of judith and her third husband charles the bald 1 1st time -rrb- '' 858 -- 860 '' -lrb- 2nd october time -rrb- '' 13 december 862 -- 879 856 -- 13 january 858 '' -lrb- osburh no previous queen consort of wessex countess of flanders wulfthryth ; then ealhswith Ælfthryth of wessex carolingian -lrb- by marriage -rrb- dynasty -lrb- by birth -rrb- house of wessex after 870 ermentrude of orléans yes c. 843 Æthelwulf wessex baldwin i of flanders , king of wessex Æthelbald , king of baldwin ii charles raoul balduin judita.jpg judith of flanders
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judith of flanders

judith of flanders -lrb- or judith of france -rrb- -lrb- 843 -- c. 870 -rrb- was the eldest daughter of the west frankish king and later holy roman emperor charles the bald and his wife ermentrude of orléans .
through her marriages to two kings of wessex , Æthelwulf and Æthelbald , she was twice a queen .
her first two marriages were childless , but through her third marriage to baldwin , she became the first countess of flanders and an ancestress of later counts of flanders .
one of her sons by baldwin married Ælfthryth , a daughter of Æthelbald 's brother , alfred the great .
she was also an ancestress of matilda of flanders , the consort of william the conqueror , and thus of later monarchs of england .
