Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois
Matilda of Brabant (* 1224, † September 29, 1288 ), was their marriages by a Countess of Artois and Saint- Pol. She was a daughter of Duke Henry II of Brabant and Maria von Staufen, a daughter of the Roman-German King Philip of Swabia.
She was married on June 14, 1237 in Compiègne with Count Robert I of Artois, the brother of the French king Louis IX. the saint was. On August 25, 1248 she adopted her husband in Aigues -Mortes, a crusade to Egypt ( Sixth Crusade ), but did not travel with yourself because she was pregnant. After her daughter was born, she traveled to Cyprus after the army and participated in the remaining part crusade to 1254. Mathilde's participation in this enterprise is often overlooked because it was not mentioned in all the great chronicles of that time. Their presence in the capture of Damietta in June 1249 is merely to hear from a letter of the king's chamberlain Jean de Beaumont. Her husband fell on February 8, 1250 during the battle of al - Mansura, in September of the same year gave birth to Matilda in the Holy Land their son Robert.
Mathilde married on his return from the East around May 1254 Naples Count Guido II of Saint-Pol from the house of Châtillon. Shortly before her death she retired to the abbey Cercamp, where she was also buried.
Children
From her first marriage with Count Robert I of Artois:
- Blanche (* 1248, † May 2, 1302 ) ∞ 1269 by King Henry I of Navarre († 1274)
- ∞ 1276 with Edmund Crouchback († 1296 ), Earl of Lancaster, Cornwall and Leicester
From her second marriage to Count Guido II of Saint-Pol:
- Hugh II of Châtillon († 1307 ), Count of Blois and Dunois 1292
- Guido III of Châtillon († 1317 ), Count of Saint-Pol
- Jacques de Châtillon († July 11, 1302 killed at the Battle of the Spurs ), Lord of Leuze, Condé etc.
- Beatrix ( † 1304) ∞ Count Johann II of Eu
- Johanna, ∞ Guillaume III. de Chauvigny, lord of Châteauroux