Matilda of Hainaut

Matilda of Hainaut ( * November 29, 1293, † 1331 ) was Princess of Achaia 1313-1318 She was the daughter of Florence of Hainault and Isabelle de Villehardouin, Princess of Achaia. .

From 1307, when Philip of Piedmont gave up its claims to Achaia, to 1312, when Isabelle de Villehardouin died, Achaia was claimed by two persons, Isabelle and Philip I of Taranto. 1313 was Philip the Principality of Mathilde. Isabelle's death, however, had another claimant called into action, Ferdinand of Majorca, in the name of his wife Isabelle de Sabran, daughter of Isabelle de Villaehardouins younger sister Margaret occurred.

1299, while still a child, Mathilde was married to Guido II de la Roche, Duke of Athens, who died in 1308. 1313 she married Louis of Burgundy, the titular king of the long -defunct Kingdom of Thessaloniki, for connecting the House of Anjou with the house of Burgundy. In addition to it was Hugo V., Duke of Burgundy and Louis older brother, engaged to Catherine de Valois - Courtenay, however, sparked Catherine's father, Charles of Valois, the engagement and married her to Philip I of Taranto, who now turn to Achaia in favor of Matilda and Ludwig renounced.

The couple traveled to Greece to take their feud in possession, which was already occupied by Ferdinand of Majorca. In the battle of Manolada on July 5, 1316 Ferdinand was killed, and Ludwig could then exercise control over Elis. Four weeks later he died, according to the Chronicle of the Morea with a fever while the Catalan Declaration assumed summa poison that was administered by Count John of Cephalonia. His death left an unsecured principality with his brother Odo IV of Burgundy, Matilda of Hainaut and the Angevinen as claimant.

Mathilde was in 1318 forced John of Durazzo to married and settled as a princess. 1321 violated Johann Mathilde ( the marriage was childless ), which then Hugues de La Palice married in fourth marriage. She retired to Aversa, where she died in 1331.