Family of Henry II + and Marie + of HOHENSTAUFEN

Husband:	Henry II + (1207-1247)
Wife:	Marie + of HOHENSTAUFEN (1201-1235)
Children:	Matilda + (1224-1288)
	Beatrix (1225-1288)
	Marie of BRABANT (1226-1256)
	Henry III (c. 1228-1261)
	Philip (c. 1230- )
	Margaret (c. 1232-1277)
Marriage	22 Aug 1215	Brabant, Flanders,Belgium

Husband: Henry II +

Wife: Marie + of HOHENSTAUFEN

Name:	Marie + of HOHENSTAUFEN
Sex:	Female
Father:	Phillip II + (1176-1208)
Mother:	Irene Angelina + (1184-1208)
Birth	3 Apr 1201	Constantinople, Turkey
Occupation		Princess of Germany
Title		Princess of Germany
Death	1235 (age 33-34)	Louvain, Brabant, Belgium

Child 1: Matilda +

Name:	Matilda +
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Robert I + (1216-1249)
Birth	1224	Brabant, Flanders,Belgium
Occupation		Princess of Brabant
Title		Princess of Brabant
Death	29 Sep 1288 (age 63-64)

Child 2: Beatrix

Name:	Beatrix
Sex:	Female
Spouse 1:	Heinrich (c. 1230- )
Spouse 2:	William III of DAMPIERRE (c. 1220- )
Birth	1225
Death	11 Nov 1288 (age 62-63)

Child 3: Marie of BRABANT

Name:	Marie of BRABANT
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Louis II (1229-1294)
Birth	1226
Death	18 Jan 1256 (age 29-30)	Donauwort
	Cause: beheaded on suspicion of infidelity

Child 4: Henry III

Name:	Henry III
Sex:	Male
Birth	1228 (est)
Occupation		Duke of Brabant
Death	1261 (age 32-33)

Child 5: Philip

Name:	Philip
Sex:	Male
Birth	1230 (est)

Child 6: Margaret

Name:	Margaret
Sex:	Female
Birth	1232 (est)
Occupation		Abbess of Herzogenthal
Title		Abbess of Herzogenthal
Death	14 Mar 1277 (age 44-45)

Note on Husband: Henry II +

Henry II of Brabant (French: Henri II de Brabant, Dutch: Hendrik II van Brabant, 1207 – February 1, 1248 in Leuven) was Duke of Brabant and Lothier after the death of his father Henry I in 1235. His mother was Mathilde of Flanders

 

Henry II supported his sister Mathilde's son, William II, Count of Holland, in the latter's bid for election as German King.

 

[edit] Family and childrenHis first marriage was to Marie of Hohenstaufen (April 3, 1201–1235, Leuven), daughter of Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina. They had six children:

 

1.Henry III, Duke of Brabant (d. 1261)

2.Philip, died young

3.Matilda of Brabant (1224 – September 29, 1288), married:

1.in Compiègne June 14, 1237 to Robert I of Artois;

2.before May 31, 1254 to Guy II of Châtillon, Count of Saint Pol.

4.Beatrix (1225 – November 11, 1288), married:

1.at Kreuzburg March 10, 1241 Heinrich Raspe Landgrave of Thuringia;

2.in Leuven November 1247 to William III of Dampierre, Count of Flanders (1224 – June 6, 1251).

5.Marie of Brabant (c. 1226 – January 18, 1256, Donauwörth), married Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria. She was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.

6.Margaret (d. March 14, 1277), Abbess of Herzogenthal.

His second marriage was to Sophie of Thuringia (March 20, 1224 – May 29, 1275), daughter of Ludwig IV of Thuringia and Elisabeth of Hungary by whom he had two children:

 

1.Henry (1244–1308, created Landgrave of Hesse in 1264.

2.Elizabeth (1243 – October 9, 1261), married in Braunschweig July 13, 1254 to Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Note on Wife: Marie + of HOHENSTAUFEN

Marie of Hohenstaufen (3 April 1201 – 29 March 1235) was a member of the powerful Hohenstaufen dynasty of German kings which lasted from 1138 to 1254. She is also known to history as Maria of Swabia.

 

She was the third daughter of Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina of Byzantium, and her husband was Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier. As she had died six months before her husband succeeded to the dukedom, Marie was never Duchess of Brabant and Lothier.

 

Marie of Hohenstaufen was born in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy on 3 April 1201. Her paternal grandparents were Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor and Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy, and her mother's parents were Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos and his first wife Herina.[1]

 

Emperor Frederick II was her first cousin.

 

In 1208, at the age of seven, Marie was left an orphan by the unexpected deaths of her parents. On 21 June, her father was murdered by Otto of Wittelsbach, and two months later her mother died after giving birth to a daughter, who did not live beyond early infancy. Marie had three surviving sisters.

 

[edit] Siblings1.Beatrice of Hohenstaufen (1198–1212), married Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor. The marriage was childless.

2.Cunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1200–1248), married in 1228 King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, by whom she had issue.

3.Elizabeth of Hohenstaufen (1203 – 5 November 1235), married in 1219 King Ferdinand III of Castile, by whom she had issue, including King Alfonso X of Castile. She was his first wife. Ferdinand married his second wife Jeanne de Dammartin, Countess of Ponthieu before August 1237, by whom he had issue, including Eleanor of Castile, Queen consort of King Edward I of England.

[edit] Marriage and issueSometime before 22 August 1215, she married as his first wife Henry, heir to the Duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) and Lothier. They had six children, and through them, Marie is the ancestress of every royal house in Europe:

 

Matilda of Brabant (14 June 1224 – 29 September 1288), married firstly, Robert I of Artois, by whom she had two children, Robert II of Artois and Blanche of Artois; she married secondly Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol, by whom she had six children.

Beatrix of Brabant (1225 – 11 November 1288), married firstly Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia, and secondly William III of Dampierre. She died childless.

Marie of Brabant (c. 1226 – 18 January 1256), married Louis II, Duke of Bavaria. She was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.

Margaret of Brabant (died 14 March 1277), Abbess of Herzogenthal.

Henry III, Duke of Brabant (c. 1230 – 28 February 1261), married Adelaide of Burgundy (c. 1233 – 23 October 1273), daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, by whom he had issue, including Henry IV, Duke of Brabant, John I, Duke of Brabant, and Maria of Brabant, Queen consort of King Philip III of France.

Philip of Brabant, died young.

[edit] DeathMarie of Hohenstaufen died on 29 March 1235 in Leuven, Brabant, five days before her thirty-fourth birthday. Less than six months later, her husband succeeded his father as Duke of Brabant and Lothier.

 

In 1241, Henry married his second wife, Sophie of Thuringia, the daughter of Ludwig IV of Thuringia and Elisabeth of Hungary. The marriage produced two children: Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse and Elizabeth of Brabant, who married Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. Sophie was the only wife of Henry to be styled Duchess of Brabant and Lothier.