Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois

Template:Short description Template:Template other 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.Template:Sfn

Marriages and children

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

• Blanche of Artois (1248 – 2 May 1302). Married first Henry I of Navarre and secondly Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster.Template:Sfn
• Robert II, Count of Artois (1250 – 11 July 1302 at the Battle of the Golden Spurs).Template:Sfn

On 8 February 1250, Robert I was killed while participating in the Seventh Crusade.Template:Sfn On 16 January 1255, Matilda married her second husband Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol.Template:Sfn He was a younger son of Hugh I, Count of Blois and Mary, Countess of Blois.Template:Sfn They had:

• Hugh II, Count of Blois (died 1307), Count of Saint Pol and later Count of BloisTemplate:Sfn
• Guy IV, Count of Saint-Pol (died 1317), Count of Saint Pol
• 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 EuTemplate:Sfn
• Jeanne, married Guillaume III de Chauvigny, Lord of Châteauroux
• Gertrude, married Florent, Lord of Mechelen (French: Malines).