Matilda of Carinthia
Matilda of Carinthia | |
|---|---|
 Countess of Chartres appealing to Louis le Gros | |
| Died | 13 December 1160 or 1161 |
| Noble family | House of Sponheim |
| Spouse(s) | Theobald II, Count of Champagne |
| Father | Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia |
| Mother | Uta of Passau |
Matilda of Carinthia or Mathilde of Sponheim (died 13 December 1160 or 1161) was the daughter of Engelbert, Duke of Carinthia[1] and his wife Uta of Passau. She married Theobald II, Count of Champagne[2] in 1123.[3] She was the mother of Adèle of Champagne, Queen of France and thus the maternal grandmother of Philip II of France.
Her ten children with Theobald were:
- Henry I, Count of Champagne[3]
- Theobald V, Count of Blois[3]
- Adèle of Champagne[3]
- Isabella, wife of Roger of Apulia and William Gouet IV
- Mary, wife of Odo II[4]
- William White Hands[3]
- Stephen I of Sancerre[3]
- Agnes, wife of Reginald II, Count of Bar[5]
- Margaret, nun at Fontevrault
- Matilda, wife of Rotrou II
References
- ^ Chibnall, M. (ed. and trans.) The Ecclesiastical History of Orderic Vitalis (Oxford Medieval Texts, 1969-80), Vol. VI, Book XI, pp. 42-3.
- ^ Abbé Laloire (ed.) (1878) Chartes de Montiérender, Collection des principaux cartularies du diocèse de Troyes Tome IV (Paris, Troyes) ("Montiérender") 77, p. 201.
- ^ a b c d e f Abbot Hugh: An Overlooked Brother of Henry I, Count of Champagne, Ruth Harwood Cline, The Catholic Historical Review, Vol. 93, No. 3 (Jul., 2007), 501-502.
- ^ Margot Elsbeth Fassler, The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts, (Yale University Press, 2010), 457 note5.
- ^ Margot Elsbeth Fassler, The Virgin of Chartres: Making History Through Liturgy and the Arts, 457 note6.