Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois

This article is about the daughter of Duke Henry II. For the daughter of Duke Henry I, see Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Holland.

Matilda of Brabant
Medallion of Matilda of Brabant
Spouse(s)	Robert I of Artois Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol
Noble family	Reginar
Father	Henry II, Duke of Brabant
Mother	Marie of Hohenstaufen
Born	(1224-06-14)14 June 1224
Died

Matilda of Brabant (14 June 1224 – 29 September 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, Count 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 Hugh I, Count of Blois and Mary, Countess of Blois. They had six children:

• Hugh II, Count of Blois (died 1307), Count of Saint Pol and later Count of Blois
• Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol (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).

Ancestry

Family of Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois

16. Godfrey II, Count of Leuven               8. Godfrey III, Count of Leuven                       17. Luitgarde of Sulzbach               4. Henry I, Duke of Brabant                             18. Henry II, Duke of Limburg               9. Margaret of Limburg                       19. Matilda of Saffenberg               2. Henry II, Duke of Brabant                                   20. Thierry, Count of Flanders               10. Matthew, Count of Boulogne                       21. Sibylla of Anjou               5. Matilda of Flanders                             22. Stephen, King of England               11. Marie I, Countess of Boulogne                       23. Matilda of Boulogne               1. Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois                                         24. Frederick II, Duke of Swabia               12. Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor                       25. Judith of Bavaria, Duchess of Swabia               6. Philip of Swabia                             26. Renaud III, Count of Burgundy               13. Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy                       27. Agatha of Lorraine               3. Maria of Swabia                                   28. Andronikos Doukas Angelos               14. Isaac II Angelos                       29. Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa               7. Irene Angelina                             30. George Komnenodoukas Palaiologos (1125–1168)               15. Unknown Palaiologina?, afterwards Irene                       31. ?Irene Komnene Kantakouzene?

External links

• Her profile, along with her father, in "Medieval Lands" by Charles Cawley