Matilda of Brabant

Matilda of Brabant

Matilda of Brabant (1224 – September 29, 1288) was the eldest daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and his fist wife Marie of Hohenstaufen.

Marriages and children

On 14 June, 1237, Matilda married her first husband Robert I of Artois. The bride was about thirteen years old and the groom twenty-one. Robert was the fifth son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile. They had two children:

*Blanche of Artois (1248 - 2 May, 1302). Married first Henry I of Navarre and secondly Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster.
*Robert II of Artois (1250 - 11 July, 1302).

On 8 February, 1250, Robert I was killed while participating in the Seventh Crusade. Sometime between 1250 and 1254, Matilda married her second husband Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol. He was a younger son of consorts and co-rulers Hugh I, Count of Blois and Mary, Countess of Blois. They had six children:

*Hugh II of Châtillon (d. 1307), Count of Saint Pol and later Count of Blois
*Guy III of Châtillon (d. 1317), Count of Saint Pol
*Jacques I of Leuze-Châtillon (d. 1302, Battle of the Golden Spurs), first of the lords of Leuze, married Catherine de Condé and had issue; his descendants brought Condé, Carency, etc. into the House of Bourbon.
*Beatrix (d. 1304), married John I of Brienne, Count of Eu
*Jeanne, married Guillaume III de Chauvigny, Lord of Châteauroux
*Gertrude, married Florent, Lord of Mechelen (French: "Malines").

External links

* [http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRABANT,%20LOUVAIN.htm#HenriIIBrabantdied1248B Her profile, along with her father, in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley]


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