Ancestry of
Herman Melville

Author of Moby Dick

Baldwin VI of Flanders

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• • 24th Great-grandfather of Herman Melville — 27th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 95881460 
  • Father:
  • Baudoin V of Flanders 
  • Mother:
  • Adela of France   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1030 
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  • Death Date:
  • 17 Jul 1070 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Richildis of Hainault
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  Gilbert de Gant (Ahnentafel No:47940730 )

  Baldwin II of Hainault

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  • aka Baldwin I of Hainault

    Count of Flanders, Hainault, and Artois

• Sources for Baldwin VI of Flanders

  • ¹ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Royal Descents of 600 Immigrants to the American Colonies or the United States (2 vols.), Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. (2008), 534.
  • ² Sellers, Edwin Jaquett, Fenwick Allied Ancestry: Ancestry of Thomas Fenwick of Sussex County, Delaware . . ., Philadelphia: Press of Allen, Lane and Scott (1916), 57.
  • ³ Wikipedia, "Baldwin VI, Count of Flanders", _Count_of_Flanders, (accessed 03/27/2010).
  • ⁴ Wurts, John S., Magna Charta, New York: Brookfield Publishing Company (1942), 186.