Matilda of Flanders, Duchess of Brabant

1170 - 1210  (40 years)

• Name	Matilda of Flanders, Duchess of Brabant  [1]
  Suffix	Duchess of Brabant
  Born	1170  [1]
  Gender	Female
  Died	16 Oct 1210  [1]
  Buried	Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium   [1]
  Notes	Matilde of Flanders (1170 - 16 October 1210) was the youngest 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. Family 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' marriage was annulled the year she was born and her mother became a Benedictine 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. Marriages and children When Matilde was only nine years old, she married Henry I, Duke of Brabant in 1179. The couple went on to have seven children: Marie (c. 1190 - May 1260), married in Maastricht after 19 May 1214 Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, married July 1220 Count William I of Holland Adelaide (b. c. 1190), married 1206 Arnulf, Count of Loos, married 3 February 1225 William X of Auvergne (c. 1195-1247), married before 21 April 1251 Arnold van Wesemaele (d. aft. 1288) Margaret (1192-1231), married January 1206 Gerard III, Count of Guelders (d. 22 October 1229) Mathilde (c. 1200 - 22 December 1267), married in Aachen in 1212 Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1214), married on 6 December 1214 Floris IV, Count of Holland Henry II of Brabant (1207-1248), married firstly before 22 August 1215 Marie of Hohenstaufen; married secondly in 1240 Sophie of Thuringia Godfrey (1209 - 21 January 1254), Lord of Gaesbeek, married Marie van Oudenaarde child, whose name and sex is unknown 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. Six of Matilde's seven children lived to adulthood and subsequently married.
  Person ID	I5454	Bosdet Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 May 2013

  
  

  Father	Matthew, Count of Boulogne,   b. Abt 1137,   d. 1173  (Age ~ 36 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Mother	Marie, I Countess of Boulogne,   b. 1136,   d. 25 Jul 1182, Montreuil, Eure-et-Loir, Centre, France  (Age 46 years)
  Relationship	Natural
  Married	1160  [2]
  Family ID	F2185	Group Sheet

  
  

  Family	Henry, I Duke of Brabant,   b. 1165, Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium ,   d. 05 Sep 1235, Cologne, Germany  (Age 70 years)
  Children	1. Matilde of Brabant,   b. Abt 1200,   d. 22 Dec 1267  (Age ~ 67 years)
  Family ID	F2172	Group Sheet

  
  

• Sources

  [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathilde_of_Flanders. [S174] Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_I,_Countess_of_Boulogne.