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Duchess of Brabant
Matilda of Boulogne was the younger daughter of Matthew, Count of Boulogne, and Marie I, Countess of Boulogne. Matilda became Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to Henry I, Duke of Brabant.
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Matilda of Boulogne (c. 1162 – 16 October 1210) was the younger daughter of Matthew, Count of Boulogne, and Marie I, Countess of Boulogne. Matilda became Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to Henry I, Duke of Brabant.
Matilda's parents' marriage was dissolved around 1170 and her mother became a Benedictine nun at St. Austrebert, Montreuil and died in 1182. Matilda's father continued to rule as count of Boulogne until his death in 1173. Her older sister, Ida, became countess.
Matilda married Duke Henry I of Brabant in 1180. The couple went on to have:
Maria (c. 1190 – May 1260), married in Maastricht after 19 May 1214 Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, married July 1220 Count William I of Holland
Adelaide (b. c. 1190), married 1206 Arnold III, Count of Loos, married 3 February 1225 William X of Auvergne (c. 1195–1247), married before 21 April 1251 Arnold van Wesemaele (d. aft. 1288)
Margaret (1192–1231), married January 1206 Gerard III, Count of Guelders (d. 22 October 1229)
Matilda (c. 1200 – 22 December 1267), married in Aachen in 1212 Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine (d. 1214), married on 6 December 1214 Floris IV, Count of Holland
Henry II of Brabant (1207–1248), married firstly before 22 August 1215 Marie of Hohenstaufen; married secondly in 1240 Sophie of Thuringia
Godfrey (1209 – 21 January 1254), Lord of Gaesbeek, married Maria van Oudenaarde
child, whose name and sex is unknown
Matilde died in 1210 or 1211. She was buried at St. Peter's in Leuven.
“A faithless wife brings ruin to the state.”
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