Henry II of Brabant (Dutch: Hendrik, French: Henri; 1207 – February 1, 1248) was Duke of Brabant and Lothier after the death of his father Henry I in 1235. His mother was Matilda of Boulogne.[1]
Henry II | |
|---|---|
| Duke of Brabant Duke of Lothier | |
 Henry's seal | |
| Born | 1207 |
| Died | 1 February 1248 (aged 40–41) Leuven |
| Buried | Villers Abbey |
| Noble family | Reginar |
| Spouse(s) | Marie of Hohenstaufen Sophie of Thuringia |
| Issue | Henry III, Duke of Brabant Philip Matilda of Brabant Beatrice of Brabant Maria of Brabant Margaret Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse Elizabeth |
| Father | Henry I, Duke of Brabant |
| Mother | Mathilde of Flanders |
Henry II supported his sister Mathilde's son, William II of Holland, in his bid for election as king of Germany.[1] He founded Valduc Abbey in 1232.[2]
His first marriage was to Marie of Hohenstaufen (April 3, 1207–1235, Leuven),[3] daughter of Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina.[1] They had six children:
- Henry III, Duke of Brabant (d. 1261)[3]
- Philip, died young[3]
- Matilda of Brabant (1224 – September 29, 1288),[3] married:
- Robert I of Artois, 14 June 1237, in Compiègne[4]
- before May 31, 1254 to Guy II of Châtillon, Count of Saint Pol.
- Beatrix (1225 – November 11, 1288), married:
- at Creuzburg March 10, 1241, Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia;[5]
- in Leuven November 1247 to William III of Dampierre, Count of Flanders (1224 – June 6, 1251).
- Maria of Brabant (c. 1226 – January 18, 1256, Donauwörth),[3] married Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria. She was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.
- Margaret (d. March 14, 1277), Abbess of Valduc Abbey (Hertogendal).
His second marriage was to Sophie of Thuringia (March 20, 1224 – May 29, 1275),[6] daughter of Ludwig IV of Thuringia and Saint Elisabeth of Hungary,[7] by whom he had two children:
- Henry (1244–1308), created Landgrave of Hesse in 1264.[8]
- Elizabeth (1243 – October 9, 1261), married Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
Henry died in Leuven, aged about 40.
References
edit- ^ a b c Baldwin 2014, p. 27.
- ^ "Inventaire du patrimoine immobilier culturel BEAUVECHAIN" (PDF). Inventaire du patrimoine immobilier culturel (in French). Wallonie patrimoine. Retrieved 15 October 2024.
- ^ a b c d e Dunbabin 2011, p. xiv.
- ^ Nieus 2005, p. 166,176.
- ^ Fried & Schieffer 2008, p. 566.
- ^ Teszelszky 2014, p. 148.
- ^ Loud & Schenk 2017, p. xxvii.
- ^ Morganstern 2000, p. 34.
Sources
edit- Baldwin, Philip B. (2014). Pope Gregory X and the Crusades. The Boydell Press.
- Dunbabin, Jean (2011). The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305. Cambridge University Press.
- Fried, Johannes; Schieffer, Rudolf, eds. (2008). Deutsches Archiv für Erforschung des Mittelalters (in German). Bohlau Verlag GmbH & Cie, Koln Weimar Wien.
- Loud, Graham A.; Schenk, Jochen, eds. (2017). The Origins of the German Principalities, 1100-1350: Essays by German Historians. Routledge.
- Morganstern, Anne McGee (2000). Gothic Tombs of Kinship in France, the Low Countries, and England. The Pennsylvania State University Press.
- Nieus, Jean-François (2005). Un pouvoir comtal entre Flandre et France: Saint-Pol, 1000-1300 (in French). De Boeck & Larcier.
- Teszelszky, Kees, ed. (2014). A Divided Hungary in Europe: Exchanges, Networks and. Vol. 3. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
See also
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