Family of Henry I + and Mathilde + of FLANDERS

Husband:	Henry I + (1165-1235)
Wife:	Mathilde + of FLANDERS (1170-1210)
Children:	Marie of BRABANT (1188- )
	Adelaide of BRABANT (1190- )
	Marguerite of BRABANT (1192-1231)
	Mathilde + (1200-1267)
	Henry II + (1207-1247)
	Godfrey of LOUVAINE (1209-1254)
Marriage	1179

Husband: Henry I +

Wife: Mathilde + of FLANDERS

Name:	Mathilde + of FLANDERS
Sex:	Female
Father:	Matthew + of ALSACE (1130-1173)
Mother:	Marie + of BOULOGNE (1137-1182)
Birth	1170	Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France
Occupation		Duchess of Brabant
Title		Duchess of Brabant
Death	16 Oct 1210 (age 39-40)

Child 1: Marie of BRABANT

Name:	Marie of BRABANT
Sex:	Female
Spouse:	Otto IV (1175-1218)
Birth	1188
Death	"5/1260"

Child 2: Adelaide of BRABANT

Name:	Adelaide of BRABANT
Sex:	Female
Spouse 1:	Arnulf (c. 1185- )
Spouse 2:	William X of AUVERGNE (1195-1247)
Spouse 3:	Arnold VAN WESEMAELE ( -1288)
Birth	1190

Child 3: Marguerite of BRABANT

Child 4: Mathilde +

Name:	Mathilde +
Sex:	Female
Spouse 1:	Henry II (c. 1195- )
Spouse 2:	Floris IV + (1210-1234)
Birth	1200	Hertogenbosch, Nord Brabant, Netherlands
Occupation		Princess of Brabant
Title		Princess of Brabant
Death	21 Dec 1267 (age 66-67)

Child 5: Henry II +

Child 6: Godfrey of LOUVAINE

Name:	Godfrey of LOUVAINE
Sex:	Male
Spouse:	Maire VAN OUDENAARDE (c. 1210- )
Birth	1209
Occupation		Lord of Gaesbeek
Death	21 Jan 1254 (age 44-45)

Note on Husband: Henry I +

Henry I of Brabant (French: Henri I de Brabant, Dutch: Hendrik I van Brabant) (1165 – 5 September 1235), named "The Courageous" Duke of Brabant (from 1183) and Duke of Lower Lotharingia (from 1190) until his death.

 

[edit] BiographyHe was probably born in Leuven. He became Duke of Brabant in 1183 / 1184 and succeeded his father as Duke of Lower Lotharingia in 1190. He was the son of Godfrey III of Leuven, Duke of Lower Lotharingia and landgrave of Brabant, and Margaret of Limburg.

 

He was one of the leaders of the Third Crusade, which he joined in mid-1197. In the October of the same year he took part in the recapture of Beirut and, then moved to Jaffa with the Crusaders: however, before reaching the city he got news of the death of the King of Jerusalem, Henry II of Champagne, and he returned to Acre. Here he acted as regent until the arrival of the new King, Amalric II.

 

In 1208, after the assassination of Philip of Swabia, King of the Romans, Henry was proposed as successor by King Philip II Augustus. In the war which followed, he reached in Germany emperor Otto IV, but the two were defeated in the Battle of Bouvines.

 

Under Henry I, there was a town policy and town planning. Henry's attention went out to those regions that lent themselves to the extension of his sovereignty and in some locations he used the creation of a new town as an instrument in the political organisation of the area. Among the towns to which the Duke gave city rights and trade privileges was 's-Hertogenbosch.

 

Henry died at Cologne in 1235. He was buried in St. Peter's chapter church at Leuven where his late Romanesque effigy can still be seen.

 

[edit] MarriagesHe married Mathilde of Boulogne (Mathilde of Flanders), daughter of Marie of Boulogne and Matthew of Alsace 1179. He had six children by his first marriage:

 

1.Marie (c. 1190 – May 1260), married in Maastricht after May 19, 1214 Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, married July 1220 Count William I of Holland

2.Adelaide (b. c. 1190), married 1206 Arnulf, Count of Loos, married February 3, 1225 William X of Auvergne (c. 1195–1247), married before April 21, 1251 Arnold van Wesemaele (d. aft. 1288), ancestor of Joan of Boulogne, second wife of John, Duke of Berry

3.Margaret (1192–1231), married January 1206 Gerhard III, Count of Guelders (d. October 22, 1229)

4.Mathilde (c. 1200 – December 22, 1267), married in Aachen in 1212 Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1214), married on December 6, 1214 Floris IV, Count of Holland

5.Henry II of Brabant (1207–1248)

6.Godfrey (1209 – January 21, 1254), Lord of Gaesbeek, married Marie van Oudenaarde

His second marriage was at April 22, 1213 in Soissons to Marie, princess of France, daughter of King Philip II of France. They had two children:

 

1.Ysabeau (Elizabeth) (d. October 23, 1272), married in Leuven March 19, 1233 Count Dietrich of Cleves, Lord of Dinslaken (c. 1214–1244), married 1246 Gerhard II, Count of Wassenberg (d. 1255)

2.Marie, died young

Note on Wife: Mathilde + of FLANDERS

Matilde of Flanders (1170–1210) was a daughter of Marie I, Countess of Boulogne and her husband Matthew, Count of Boulogne. Matilde was Duchess of Brabant, by her marriage to Henry I, Duke of Brabant.

Matilde's maternal grandparents were Stephen of England and his wife Matilda I, Countess of Boulogne. Her paternal grandparents were Thierry, Count of Flanders and Sibylla of Anjou. Matilde's elder sister was Ida, Countess of Boulogne.

 

Matilde's parents divorced the year she was born and her mother became a nun at St. Austrebert, Montreuil and died in 1182. Matilde's father, Matthew continued to reign as Count of Boulogne until his death in 1173, when Ida became Countess. Marie's lands in England went to her sister, another Matilda.

 

Marriages and childrenWhen Matilde was only nine years old, she married Henry I, Duke of Brabant in 1179. The couple went on to have six children:

 

1.Marie (c. 1190 – May 1260), married in Maastricht after May 19, 1214 Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, married July 1220 Count William I of Holland

2.Adelaide (b. c. 1190), married 1206 Arnulf, Count of Loos, married February 3, 1225 William X of Auvergne (c. 1195–1247), married before April 21, 1251 Arnold van Wesemaele (d. aft. 1288)

3.Margaret (1192–1231), married January 1206 Gerard III, Count of Guelders (d. October 22, 1229)

4.Mathilde (c. 1200 – December 22, 1267), married in Aachen in 1212 Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1214), married on December 6, 1214 Floris IV, Count of Holland

5.Henry II of Brabant (1207–1248), married firstly before 22 August 1215 Marie of Hohenstaufen; married secondly in 1240 Sophie of Thuringia

6.Godfrey (1209 – January 21, 1254), Lord of Gaesbeek, married Marie van Oudenaarde

Matilde died in 1210 or 1211. She was buried at St. Peter's in Leuven; her husband and their daughter, Marie were later laid to rest in the church.

 

After her death, Henry later married his second wife, Marie of France, daughter of Philip II of France. Henry and Marie had two daughters. All of Matilde's children lived to adulthood and subsequently married.[1][2]