Mathilde VAN BRABANT [7708] ¹⁷⁶³

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  General Notes:

Matilda of Brabant (14 June 1224 \endash 29 September 1288) was the eldest daughter of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and his first wife Marie of Hohenstaufen.

On 14 June 1237, which was her 13th birthday, Matilda married her first husband Robert I of Artois.[1] 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 \endash 2 May 1302).
Married first Henry I of Navarre and secondly Edmund
Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster.[2]
- Robert II, Count of Artois (1250 \endash 11 July 1302).[3]

On 8 February 1250, Robert I was killed while participating in the Seventh Crusade.[4]

On 16 January 1255, Matilda married her second husband Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol.[5] He was a younger son of Hugh I, Count of Blois and Mary, Countess of Blois.[5] They had six children:
- Hugh II, Count of Blois (died 1307), Count of Saint Pol and later Count of Blois[5]
- 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[5]
- Jeanne, married Guillaume III de Chauvigny, Lord of Châteauroux
- Gertrude, married Florent, Lord of Mechelen (French: Malines).

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  Noted events in her life were:

1. Title Of Nobility: Countess of Saint Pol, on 16 January 1255,. ¹⁸²⁸

2. Title Of Nobility: Countess of Artois, on 14 June 1237,. ¹⁸²⁸

3. She worked as a Queen consort on an unknown date. ¹⁸²⁸

Mathilde married Robert I D'ARTOIS The Good Count of Artois [7707] [MRIN: 5729], son of Louis VIII King of France [7724] and Blanche DE CASTILLE Queen of France [7725], on 14 June 1237 in Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France.¹⁸²⁸ (Robert I D'ARTOIS The Good Count of Artois [7707] was born on 25 September 1216 in Paris, Île-de-France, France,¹⁷⁶³ died on 8 February 1250 in Al Mansurah, , Al Fayyum, Egypt ¹⁷⁶³ and was buried in 1250 ¹⁷⁶³.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

1. They have conflicting marriage information of 14 June 1237 and Compiègne, Oise, Picardie, France. ¹⁸²⁸

Mathilde next married Guy III DE CHÂTILLON-SAINT-POL [7712] [MRIN: 5732] on 31 May 1254 in Naples, Italy.¹⁸²⁸ (Guy III DE CHÂTILLON-SAINT-POL [7712] was born in 1222 in St Pol, Nord, Nord-Pas-De-Calais, France,¹⁸²⁸ died on 12 March 1289 in Guingamp, Bretagne, France ¹⁸²⁸ and was buried in 1289 in Frevent, Departement du Pas-de-Calais, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France ¹⁸²⁸.)