Mahaut, Countess of Artois

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Mahaut, Countess of Artois
suo jure Countess of Artois
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Spouse(s) Otto IV, Count of Burgundy
Issue
Noble family House of Artois
Father Robert II, Count of Artois
Mother Amicie de Courtenay
Born 1268
France
Died 28 October 1329
Paris, France
Seal of Mahaut, Countess of Artois

Mahaut, Countess of Artois (1268 – October 28, 1329, Paris), also known as Mathilda, was the eldest child (and only daughter) of Robert II, Count of Artois, and Amicie de Courtenay.

Family

Her paternal grandparents were Robert I, Count of Artois, and Matilda of Brabant. Her maternal grandparents were Pierre de Courtenay, Seigneur de Conches, and Perronelle de Joigny.[1]

Her younger brothers were:

  1. Philip of Artois (1269–1298). Married Blanche de Dreux, daughter of John II, Duke of Brittany, by whom he had five children.
  2. Robert of Artois (born 1271). Died young.

Marriage and issue

In 1291,[1] Mahaut married Otho IV, Count of Burgundy,[2] to whom she bore three children, including two girls who married kings of France:

Mahaut's daughters Joan II and Blanche, along with their cousin Margaret of Burgundy, were implicated in the Tour de Nesle Affair.

Dispute over the County of Artois

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Arms of the County of Artois

Because of the premature death of her brother Philip in 1298, she inherited the County of Artois at her father's death in 1302, rather than her nephew Robert III (her inheritance being based upon proximity of blood). Although he repeatedly challenged the decision, her rights to the county were consistently upheld by the Parlement of Paris and the royal court.[4] She was an able administrator and managed to defeat the many rebellions perpetrated by members of the nobility. Her senior administrator was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Arras, Thierry de Hérisson.[5] Upon her death in 1329, the county was inherited by her daughter Joan II, Countess of Burgundy (d. 1329), the widow of Philip V of France.

In fiction

Mahaut is a major character in Les Rois maudits (The Accursed Kings), a series of historical novels by Maurice Druon. Druon describes her as the poisoner of Louis X and his infant son Jean I, who is later poisoned herself the same way by her lady-in-waiting Béatrice d'Hirson, who originally helped with the King's poisoning. Allan Massie wrote in The Wall Street Journal, "Few figures in literature are as terrible as the Countess Mahaut, murderer and maker of kings."[6] She was portrayed by Hélène Duc in the 1972 French miniseries adaptation of the novels,[7] and by Jeanne Moreau in the 2005 remake.[8][9]

Ancestry

Family of Mahaut, Countess of Artois
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 16. Philip II of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 8. Louis VIII of France
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 17. Isabella of Hainaut
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 4. Robert I, Count of Artois
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 18. Alfonso VIII of Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 9. Blanche of Castile
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 19. Eleanor of England
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 2. Robert II, Count of Artois
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 20. Henry I, Duke of Brabant
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10. Henry II, Duke of Brabant
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 21. Mathilde of Flanders
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 5. Matilda of Brabant
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 22. Philip of Swabia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 11. Marie of Swabia
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 23. Irene Angelina
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 1. Mahaut, Countess of Artois
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 24. Peter I of Courtenay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 12. Robert de Courtenay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 25. Elizabeth of Courtenay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 6. Pierre de Courtenay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 26. Philip of Mehun
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 13. Mathilde of Mehun
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 3. Amicie de Courtenay
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 14. Gaucher de Joigny
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 7. Perronelle de Joigny
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 30. Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 15. Amicie de Montfort
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 31. Alix de Montmorency
 
 
 
 
 
 

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Burke's Peerage
  2. ↑ Philippe Le Bel et la Noblesse Franc-Comtoise, Frantz Funck-Brentano, Bibliothèque de l’École des chartes, Vol. 49 (1888), 12.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Blanche of Artois and Burgundy, Chateau-Gaillard, and the Baron de Joursanvault, Elizabeth A.R. Brown, Negotiating Community and Difference in Medieval Europe, ed. Katherine Allen Smith and Scott Wells, (Brill, 2009), 223.
  4. ↑ Dana L. Sample. ‘Philip VI’s Mortal Enemy: Robert of Artois and the Beginning of the Hundred Years War’, The Hundred Years War (Part II): Different Vistas, L.J. Andrew Villalon and Donald J. Kagay, eds. (Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2008): 264.
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Bibliography

  • Sample, Dana L. ‘Philip VI’s Mortal Enemy: Robert of Artois and the Beginning of the Hundred Years War’, The Hundred Years War (Part II): Different Vistas. L.J. Andrew Villalon and Donald J. Kagay, eds. Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2008. Pages 261-284.
Mahaut, Countess of Artois
Born: 1268 Died: 28 October 1329
Preceded by Countess of Artois
1302–1329		 Succeeded by
Joan II

ca:Matilda d'Artois

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