Margarite OF LORRAINE (aft1140-1195)

	Margaret I, Countess of Flanders		Margaret I, Countess of Flanders

Individual Events and Attributes

Marriage

	Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut		Isabelle of Hainaut		Seal of Isabella, currently in the British Museum. Photo taken by Dana Otstott Shear 2012.		Miniature of Isabella after the birth of her son, the future Louis VIII of France

	Seal of Isabella, currently in the British Museum		Isabelle of Hainaut seal at the British Museum. Photo by Dana Otstott Shear

Individual Note

Margaret I of Flanders (died 15 November 1194) was countess of Flanders from 1191 to her death.

History

She was the daughter of Thierry, Count of Flanders and Sibylla of Anjou, and the heiress of her childless brother, Philip of Flanders.

Family

In 1160 she married Ralph II, count of Vermandois and Valois. He died of leprosy in 1167 without issue.

In 1169 she married Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut, who became her co-ruler. They had the following issue:

Isabelle of Hainaut (Valenciennes, April 1170–15 March 1190, Paris), married king Philip II of France

Baldwin VI of Hainaut (1171–1205), also count of Flanders and Latin Emperor

Yolanda of Flanders (1175–1219), married Peter of Courtenay, Latin Emperor

Philip I, Marquis of Namur (1175–1212)

Henry of Flanders (1176–1216), Latin Emperor

Sybille (1179–9 January 1217), married c. 1197 Guichard IV, Sire de Beaujeu (d. 1216). They had a daughter, Agnes of Beaujeu.

Eustace of Hainaut (d. 1219), regent of the Kingdom of Thessalonica

Godfrey of Hainaut

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