Elstrude de Flandre

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information: Charles Cawley's Midieval Lands, Elstrude de Flandre.
The Historia Comitum Ghisnensium names "Sifridus" specifying that he was of Danish origin and "de eiusdem Walberti cognatione progenitus"[ Historia Comitum Ghisnensium 7, MGH SS XXIV, p. 566]. His precise relationship with Walbert has not been identified. He was installed as Comte de Guines in 928. m ([960/65]) Elstrude de Flandre, daughter of Arnoul I Count of Flanders & his [second] wife Adela de Vermandois (-966 or after). The Historia Comitum Ghisnensium names "comes Balduinus sororem…Elstrudem" as wife of "Sifridus"[Historia Comitum Ghisnensium 11, MGH SS XXIV, p. 568].

Elstrude married Siegfried Guines. (Siegfried Guines died about 965.)