• Born: Hainaut, Belgium
• Married:
• Died: 3 January, after 1144

  Research Notes:

The Liber de Restauratione Sancti Martini Tornacensis names "Balduinum et Richeldem" as children of Comte Baudouin and his wife Yolande, specifying that Richildis married "Everardi castellani Tornacensis". The Chronicon Hanoniense refers to one of the daughters of "Balduinus comes Hanoniensis" & his wife as the wife of "castellano Tornacensis", in a later passage naming their son "Evrardum cognomine Radonem qui de parte matris sue Fienias villam prope Melbodium possedit". According to Europäische Stammtafeln, Richildis, daughter of Baudouin III Comte de Hainaut, married firstly Thierry d'Avesnes. However, this is chronologically impossible (assuming that Thierry died before 1106) as Baudouin III's marriage is dated to [1107]. It is more likely therefore that the wife of Thierry was a daughter of Count Baudouin II. The abbot of Saint-Amand-en-Pèvele recorded a donation of property “apud Heines super alodium patris sui Gualteri Tornacensis castellani” made to the abbey by “Gualterus”, when “pie memorie Ratbodus Tornacensis ecclesie archidiaconus” became a monk there, in the presence of “Perona uxor ipsius Gualteri, Everardus castellanus filius eius et uxor ipsius Richeldis, Siherus et Alardus fratres Evrardi, quorum Alardus noster monachus factus prior patre suo obiit, sorores etiam ipsorum : Helewidis, Yda et Elizabeth”, and excommunicated anyone who failed to respect the donations, by charter dated 1144.

The necrology of Tournai Saint-Nicolas-des-Prés records the death “III Non Jan” of “Richeldis castellana”. ¹