- Mathilde of Flanders
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Matilde of Flanders (1170 – 16 October 1210) was the youngest daughter of Marie I, Countess of Boulogne and her husband Matthew, Count of Boulogne. Matilde was Duchess of Brabant, by her marriage to Henry I, Duke of Brabant.
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Family
Matilde's maternal grandparents were Stephen of England and his wife Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne. Her paternal grandparents were Thierry, Count of Flanders and Sibylla of Anjou. Matilde's elder sister was Ida, Countess of Boulogne.
Matilde's parents' marriage was annulled the year she was born and her mother became a Benedictine nun at St. Austrebert, Montreuil and died in 1182.[1] Matilde's father, Matthew continued to reign as Count of Boulogne until his death in 1173, when Ida became Countess.
Marriages and children
When Matilde was only nine years old, she married Henry I, Duke of Brabant in 1179. The couple went on to have seven children:[1]
- Marie (c. 1190 – May 1260), married in Maastricht after May 19, 1214 Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, married July 1220 Count William I of Holland
- Adelaide (b. c. 1190), married 1206 Arnulf, Count of Loos, married February 3, 1225 William X of Auvergne (c. 1195–1247), married before April 21, 1251 Arnold van Wesemaele (d. aft. 1288)
- Margaret (1192–1231), married January 1206 Gerard III, Count of Guelders (d. October 22, 1229)
- Mathilde (c. 1200 – December 22, 1267), married in Aachen in 1212 Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1214), married on December 6, 1214 Floris IV, Count of Holland
- Henry II of Brabant (1207–1248), married firstly before 22 August 1215 Marie of Hohenstaufen; married secondly in 1240 Sophie of Thuringia
- Godfrey (1209 – January 21, 1254), Lord of Gaesbeek, married Marie van Oudenaarde
- child, whose name and sex is unknown
Matilde died in 1210 or 1211. She was buried at St. Peter's in Leuven;[1] her husband and their daughter, Marie were later laid to rest in the church.
After her death, Henry later married his second wife, Marie of France, daughter of Philip II of France. Henry and Marie had two daughters. Six of Matilde's seven children lived to adulthood and subsequently married.
Ancestry
Ancestors of Mathilde of Flanders 16. Gerard, Duke of Lorraine 8. Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine 17. Hedwig of Flanders 4. Thierry, Count of Flanders 18. Robert I, Count of Flanders 9. Gertrude of Flanders 19. Gertrude of Saxony 2. Matthew, Count of Boulogne 20. Fulk IV, Count of Anjou 10. Fulk of Jerusalem 21. Bertrade de Montfort 5. Sibylla of Anjou 22. Elias I of Maine 11. Ermengarde of Maine 23. Mathilda of Château-du-Loire 1. Matilde of Flanders 24. Theobald III, Count of Blois 12. Stephen II, Count of Blois 25. Garsinde of Maine 6. Stephen of England 26. William I of England 13. Adela of Normandy 27. Matilda of Flanders 3. Marie I, Countess of Boulogne 28. Eustace II, Count of Boulogne 14. Eustace III, Count of Boulogne 29. Ida of Lorraine 7. Matilda of Boulogne 30. Malcolm III of Scotland 15. Mary of Scotland 31. Saint Margaret of Scotland References
Categories:- 1170 births
- 1210 deaths
- Medieval women
- Duchesses of Brabant
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