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Godfrey III Count of Louvain, Duke of Lorraine
(1142-1190)
Margaret of Limbourg
(-1173)
Matthew of Alsace, Count of Boulogne
Marie of Blois, Countess of Boulogne
(1136-1182)
Henry I Duke of Lorraine, Louvain and Brabant
(Abt 1165-1235)
Mathilde of Flanders
(-Between 1210/1211)
Henry II Duke of Brabant
(1207-1248)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Marie of Hohenstaufen

Henry II Duke of Brabant 1

  • Born: 1207
  • Marriage (1): Marie of Hohenstaufen before 22 Aug 1215
  • Died: 1 Feb 1248, Leuven, Brabant, (Flemish Brabant), Flanders, (Belgium) at age 41

   Other names for Henry were Hendrik II van Brabant and Henri II de Brabant.

  Research Notes:

Duke of Brabant and Lothier.

From Wikipedia - Henry II, Duke of Brabant :

Henry II of Brabant (French: Henri II de Brabant, Dutch: Hendrik II van Brabant, 1207 - February 1 , 1248 in Leuven ) was Duke of Brabant and Lothier after the death of his father Henry I in 1235. His mother was Mathilde of Flanders
Henry II supported his sister Mathilde's son, William II, Count of Holland , in the latter's bid for election as German King.

Family and children
His first marriage was to Marie of Hohenstaufen (April 3 , 1201 -1235, Leuven), daughter of Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina . They had six children:
Henry III, Duke of Brabant (d. 1261)
Philip, died young
Matilda of Brabant (1224 - September 29 , 1288 ), married:
in Compiègne June 14 , 1237 to Robert I of Artois ;
before May 31 , 1254 to Guy II of Châtillon , Count of Saint Pol .
Beatrix (1225 - November 11 , 1288 ), married:
at Kreuzburg March 10 , 1241 Heinrich Raspe Landgrave of Thuringia ;
in Leuven November 1247 to William III of Dampierre, Count of Flanders (1224 - June 6 , 1251 ).
Marie of Brabant (c. 1226 - January 18 , 1256 , Donauwörth ), married Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria . She was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.
Margaret (d. March 14 , 1277 ), Abbess of Herzogenthal .
His second marriage was to Sophie of Thuringia (March 20 , 1224 - May 29 , 1275 ), daughter of Ludwig IV of Thuringia and Elisabeth of Hungary by whom he had two children:
Henry (1244-1308, created Landgrave of Hesse in 1263.
Elizabeth (1243 - October 9 , 1261 ), married in Braunschweig July 13 , 1254 to Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg


Henry married Marie of Hohenstaufen, daughter of Philip II of Swabia, King of Germany and Irene Angelina, before 22 Aug 1215. (Marie of Hohenstaufen was born on 3 Apr 1201 in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy and died on 29 Mar 1235 in Leuven, Brabant, (Flemish Brabant), Flanders, (Belgium).)


Sources


1 <i>Wikipedia.org</i>, Henry II, Duke of Brabant. Cit. Date: 11 Sep 2009.


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