Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois

This article is about the daughter of Duke Henry II. For the daughter of Duke Henry I, see Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Holland.

Matilda of Brabant
Medallion of Matilda of Brabant
Born	(1224-06-14)14 June 1224
Died	29 September 1288(1288-09-29) (aged 64)
Noble family	Reginar
Spouse(s)	Robert I of Artois Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol
Father	Henry II, Duke of Brabant
Mother	Marie of Hohenstaufen

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 21 years old and 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, Count of Artois (1250 – 11 July 1302).

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 six children:

• 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 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 (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).

Ancestry

Family of Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois

16. Godfrey II, Count of Leuven 8. Godfrey III, Count of Leuven 17. Luitgarde of Sulzbach 4. Henry I, Duke of Brabant 18. Henry II, Duke of Limburg 9. Margaret of Limburg 19. Matilda of Saffenberg 2. Henry II, Duke of Brabant 20. Thierry, Count of Flanders 10. Matthew, Count of Boulogne 21. Sibylla of Anjou 5. Matilda of Flanders 22. Stephen, King of England 11. Marie I, Countess of Boulogne 23. Matilda of Boulogne 1. Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois 24. Frederick II, Duke of Swabia 12. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor 25. Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia 6. Philip of Swabia 26. Renaud III, Count of Burgundy 13. Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy 27. Agatha of Lorraine 3. Maria of Swabia 28. Andronikos Doukas Angelos 14. Isaac II Angelos 29. Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa 7. Irene Angelina 30. George Komnenodoukas Palaiologos (1125–1168) 15. Unknown Palaiologina?, afterwards Irene 31. ?Irene Komnene Kantakouzene?

External links

• Her profile, along with her father, in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley