Maria of Swabia
Maria of Hohenstaufen | |
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Born | 1199/1200 Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy |
Died | 29 March 1235 (aged 35-36) Leuven, Brabant |
Noble family | Hohenstaufen |
Spouse(s) | Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier |
Issue | Matilda of Brabant Beatrice of Brabant Maria of Brabant Margaret of Brabant Henry III, Duke of Brabant Philip of Brabant |
Father | Philip of Swabia |
Mother | Irene Angelina of Byzantium |
Maria of Swabia (1199/1200 – 29 March 1235) was a member of the powerful Hohenstaufen dynasty of German kings.
Family[]
Maria of Hohenstaufen was born in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy around 1199/1200. She was the second daughter of Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina of Byzantium.[1] In 1208, at the age of seven, Maria was left an orphan by the unexpected deaths of her parents. On 21 June, her father was murdered by , and two months later her mother died after giving birth to a daughter, who did not live beyond early infancy.
Marriage and issue[]
Sometime before 22 August 1215, she married Henry II, heir to the Duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) and Lothier.[2] They had:
- Matilda of Brabant (14 June 1224 – 29 September 1288), married firstly, Robert I of Artois,[2] by whom she had two children, Robert II of Artois and Blanche of Artois; she married secondly Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol, by whom she had six children.
- Beatrix of Brabant (1225 – 11 November 1288), married firstly Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia, and secondly William III of Dampierre.[2] She died childless.
- Maria of Brabant (c. 1226 – 18 January 1256),[2] married Louis II, Duke of Bavaria.[3] She was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.[3]
- Margaret of Brabant (died 14 March 1277), Abbess of Herzogenthal.
- Henry III, Duke of Brabant (c. 1230 – 28 February 1261), married Adelaide of Burgundy (c. 1233 – 23 October 1273), daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, by whom he had issue
- Philip of Brabant, died young.[2]
Death[]
Maria of Hohenstaufen died on 29 March 1235 in Leuven, Brabant, five days before her thirty-fourth birthday. Less than six months later, her husband succeeded his father as Duke of Brabant and Lothier.
References[]
- ^ Baldwin 2014, p. 27.
- ^ a b c d e Dunbabin 2011, p. xiv.
- ^ a b Bumke 1991, p. 392.
Sources[]
- Baldwin, Philip B. (2014). Pope Gregory X and the Crusades. The Boydell Press.
- Bumke, Joachim (1991). Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages. Translated by Dunlap, Thomas. University of California Press.
- Dunbabin, Jean (2011). The French in the Kingdom of Sicily, 1266–1305. Cambridge University Press.
- 1201 births
- 1235 deaths
- People from Arezzo
- Hohenstaufen
- 13th-century German women