Matilda OF BRABANT (1196-1288)

	Medallion of Matilda of Brabant

Individual Events and Attributes

Marriage

	Robert of Artois

Individual Note

Matilda of Brabant (14 June 1224 – September 29, 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 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 (died 1307), Count of Saint Pol and later Count of Blois

Guy III of Châtillon (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).

SOURCE:

"Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley⁴

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