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Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois

Flemish noblewoman

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the daughter of Duke Henry II

Countess of Saint-Pol

Robert I of Artois
Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol
Blanche, Queen of Navarre
Robert II, Count of Artois
Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol
Hugh II, Count of Blois
Jacques I of Leuze-Châtillon
Beatrix, Countess of Eu
Jeanne, Lady of Châteauroux
Gertrude, Lady of Mechelen 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 issue

On 14 June 1237, which was her 13th birthday, Matilda married her first husband Robert I of Artois. Robert was the son of Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile. They had:

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 at the Battle of the Golden Spurs).

On 8 February 1250, Robert I was killed while participating in the Seventh Crusade. On 16 January 1255, 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:

Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol (1255 - 1317), Count of Saint Pol
Hugh II, Count of Blois (1258 - 1307), Count of Saint Pol and later Count of Blois
Jacques I of Leuze-Châtillon (died 11 July 1302 at the 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).

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