See also: Baudouin III

Baudouin III of Flanders , known as Baudouin the Young person (° v. 940 - † Bergues-St-Winoc, 962). Wire of the count Arnoul I {{er}} and of Adele de Vermandois († 960). Count de Flandre of 958 with 962.

His/her father makes him marry Mathilde of Saxony, girl of the duke Hermann Ier of Saxony and Hildegarde de Westburg. In 958, it gives to him to Ghent the government of the Flanders.

Baudouin III institutes the first fairs with Bruges, Torhout, Courtrai and Cassel, founds manufactures and strengthens Bergues. It takes part in a forwarding against the Norman ones under the authority of the king de France Lothaire, but dies on its return of the small pox (962), leaving to a son still child (Arnould II), which constrained his/her father to take again the reins of the capacity.