Matilda of Boulogne, Duchess of Brabant

Not to be confused with Matilda of Flanders.

Matilde of Boulogne
Born1170
Died(1210-10-16)16 October 1210
BuriedSt. Peter's Church, Leuven
Noble familyHouse of Alsace
Spouse(s)Henry I, Duke of Brabant
Issue
FatherMatthew, Count of Boulogne
MotherMarie I, Countess of Boulogne

Matilda of Boulogne (1170 – 16 October 1210) was the younger daughter of Matthew, Count of Boulogne, and Marie I, Countess of Boulogne.[1] Matilda became Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to Henry I, Duke of Brabant.[2]

Matilda'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.[3] Matilde's father continued to reign as Count of Boulogne until his death in 1173, when her older sister Ida became countess.

Matilda married Henry I, Duke of Brabant, in 1180.[4] The couple went on to have:

  • Maria (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 Arnold III, 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 Maria van Oudenaarde
  • child, whose name and sex is unknown

Matilde died in 1210 or 1211. She was buried at St. Peter's in Leuven.

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ McDougall 2017, p. 204.
  2. ^ Pollock 2015, p. 10.
  3. ^ Burgess & Busby 1986, p. 19.
  4. ^ Lambert of Ardres 2007, p. 229.

Sources

  • Burgess, Glyn S.; Busby, Keith, eds. (1986). The Lais of Marie de France. Penguin.
  • Lambert of Ardres (2007). The History of The Counts of Guines and Lords of Ardres. Translated by Shopkow, Leah. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Pollock, M.A. (2015). Scotland, England and France after the Loss of Normandy, 1204-1296. The Boydell Press.
  • McDougall, Sara (2017). Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230. Oxford University Press.
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