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Duchess of Brabant
Matilda of Boulogne
(1170 ? 16 October 1210) was the younger daughter of
Matthew, Count of Boulogne
, and
Marie I, Countess of Boulogne
.
Matilda became
Duchess of Brabant
by her marriage to
Henry I, Duke of Brabant
.
Matilda'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.
Matilde's father continued to reign as
Count of Boulogne
until his death in 1173, when her older sister
Ida
became countess.
Matilda married
Henry I, Duke of Brabant
, in 1180.
The couple went on to have:
- Maria
(c. 1190 ? May 1260), married in
Maastricht
after 19 May 1214
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
, married July 1220 Count
William I of Holland
- Adelaide
(b. c. 1190), married 1206
Arnold III
, Count of
Loos
, married 3 February 1225
William X of Auvergne
(c. 1195?1247), married before 21 April 1251 Arnold van Wesemaele (d. aft. 1288)
- Margaret (1192?1231), married January 1206
Gerard III, Count of Guelders
(d. 22 October 1229)
- Mathilde
(c. 1200 ? 22 December 1267), married in
Aachen
in 1212 Henry II,
Count Palatine of the Rhine
(d. 1214), married on 6 December 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 ? 21 January 1254), Lord of Gaesbeek, married Maria van Oudenaarde
- child, whose name and sex is unknown
Matilde died in 1210 or 1211. She was buried at
St. Peter's
in
Leuven
.
Ancestry
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Ancestors of Matilda of Boulogne, Duchess of Brabant
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Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine
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Theodoric, Count of Flanders
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Gertrude of Flanders
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Matthew, Count of Boulogne
| | | | | | | | | | | | 10.
Fulk, King of Jerusalem
| | | | | | | 5.
Sibylla of Anjou
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Ermengarde, Countess of Maine
| | | | | | | 1.
Matilda of Boulogne, Duchess of Brabant
| | | | | | | | | | | | | 12.
Stephen II, Count of Blois
| | | | | | | 6.
Stephen, King of England
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Adela of Normandy
| | | | | | | 3.
Marie I, Countess of Boulogne
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Eustace III, Count of Boulogne
| | | | | | | 7.
Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne
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Mary of Scotland
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References
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Sources
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- Burgess, Glyn S.; Busby, Keith, eds. (1986).
The Lais of Marie de France
. Penguin.
- Lambert of Ardres (2007).
The History of The Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres
. Translated by Shopkow, Leah. University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Pollock, M.A. (2015).
Scotland, England and France after the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296
. The Boydell Press.
- McDougall, Sara (2017).
Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230
. Oxford University Press.