
Margaret I, Countess of Flanders’s Lost Tomb at the St. Donatius Cathedral in Bruges, Belgium
Margaret was born circa 1145 as the daughter of Thierry, Count of Flanders and Sibylla of Anjou. Her first marriage was to Ralph II, Count of Vermandois, but he suffered from leprosy. Due to this the marriage could not consummated and they separated. He died in 1167 and by 1169 Margaret married her second husband, Baldwin [read more]