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Flemish noblewoman
Matilda of Brabant (14 June 1224 – 29 September 1288) was the eldest daughter of
Henry II, Duke of Brabant and his first wife
Marie of Hohenstaufen .
Marriages and children
On 14 June 1237, which was her 13th birthday, Matilda married her first husband
Robert I of Artois . Robert was the son of
Louis VIII of France and
Blanche of Castile . They had:
On 8 February 1250, Robert I was killed while participating in the
Seventh Crusade . On 16 January 1255, Matilda married her second husband
Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol . He was a younger son of
Hugh I, Count of Blois and
Mary, Countess of Blois . They had:
Hugh II, Count of Blois (died 1307),
Count of Saint Pol and later
Count of Blois
Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol (died 1317), Count of Saint Pol
Jacques I of Leuze-Châtillon (died 11 July 1302 at the 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 (died 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 ).
References
Sources
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Dunbabin, Jean (2014). Charles I of Anjou: Power, Kingship and State-Making in Thirteenth-Century . Routledge.
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Nieus, Jean-François (2005). Un pouvoir comtal entre Flandre et France: Saint-Pol, 1000-1300 . De Boeck & Larcier.
Pollock, M.A. (2015). Scotland, England and France after the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296 . The Boydell Press.
Strayer, Joseph R. (1969). "Crusades of Louis IX". In Setton, Kenneth M. (ed.). A History of the Crusades . Vol. II. University of Wisconsin.