Matilda of Brabant, Countess of Artois

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.

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

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

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

• Hugh II, Count of Blois (died 1307), Count of Saint Pol and later Count of Blois
• 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 Eu
• Jeanne, married Guillaume III de Chauvigny, Lord of Châteauroux
• Gertrude, married Florent, Lord of Mechelen (French: Malines).

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1. Mahaut, Countess of Artois
2. Robert II, Count of Artois
3. Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol
4. 1224
5. Blanche of Artois
6. Counts and dukes of Rethel
7. Count of Boulogne
8. Matilda of Béthune
9. List of Dutch royal consorts
10. Maria of Swabia
11. List of Burgundian royal consorts
12. Eleanor of Lancaster
13. Joan of Artois, Countess of Foix
14. John II, Count of Holland
15. House of Artois
16. Philip V of France
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18. Guy, Count of Flanders
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