Jean II d'Avesnes

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Count of Holland and Hainault (Hennegau).

Jean married Philippine de Luxemburg between 1265 and 1270. Philippine (daughter of Henry of Luxembourg and Margaret of Bar) died on 6 Apr 1311; was buried in Valenciennes, Nord-Pas-de-Calais, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Marie of Hainault and Holland died between 31 Aug 1354 and 4 Sep 1354 in Château de Murat, Cantal, Auvergne, France; was buried in Church of the Franciscans, Champaigue, Bourbonnais, France.

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• Alternate birth: 1 May 1218

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Count of Avesnes and Hainaut, 1246-57.

John married Adelaide of Holland on 9 Oct 1246. Adelaide (daughter of Floris IV of Holland and Machteld of Brabant) was born about 1230; died between 1 Mar 1284 and 7 Apr 1284. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1182

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From Wikipedia:

Bouchard began his career as a cantor and subdeacon in the church of Laon. In 1212, he was named bailiff of Hainaut. In this capacity, he served as tutor and guardian of the young Margaret, sister of Joanna, Countess of Flanders and Hainault. He later married Margaret in 1212, though she was only ten years old and the marriage could not be consummated. Neither Joanna nor Count Ferdinand gave their consent, and tried to have the marriage stopped, they failed.

Bouchard lived a war-like life. He invaded the territory of his brother Walter, who had received most of their patrimony. He then invaded Flanders and forced Joanna and Ferdinand to recognise his marriage to Margaret. He then fought at the Battle of Bouvines in 1214, under the (losing) Flemish banner. Philip Augustus, the king of France and victor of Bouvines, then counselled the pope, Innocent III, to declare the marriage of Bouchard and Margaret illegal. Innocent eventually excommunicated Bouchard on 19 January 1216. They took refuge in Luxembourg. In 1219, Bouchard was captured in battle and would be imprisoned in Ghent for two years. To obtain his release, Margaret accepted the dissolution of the marriage and Bouchard left for Italy to fight for the Holy See. Upon his return, he was decapitated at Rupelmonde on the orders of Joanna.

Bouchard married Margaret II of Flanders before 23 Jul 1212. Margaret (daughter of Baldwin I of Flanders, Latin Emperor of Constantinople and Marie of Champagne) was born about 1202; died on 10 Feb 1280; was buried in Abbey of Flines, Flines-lez-Raches, Hauts-de-France, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 2 Jun 1202

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Countess of Flanders; Countess of Hainaut. Often called Margaret of Constantinople.

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Count of Holland. A hunting lodge he build alongside a pond gradually grew into a palace and became the core of the city now known as the Hague.

Floris married Machteld of Brabant after 5 Nov 1214. Machteld (daughter of Henri I of Brabant and Machtild of Boulogne) was born about 1200; died on 21 Dec 1267. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 22 Dec 1267

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Also called Jacques d'Avesnes.

From Wikipedia:

He was the lord of Avesnes, Condé, and Leuze from 1171. In November 1187, James joined the Third Crusade as leader of a detachment of French, Flemish, and Frisian crusaders arriving by ship on the Israeli coast near Acre around 10 September 1189. James and his men came as military reinforcements for the Siege of Acre. At the Battle of Arsulf, James was thrown from his saddle and, after slaying fifteen enemy warriors, was himself cut down. The next day, a search party of Hospitallers and Templars found his body on the battlefield. It was taken back to Arsuf and buried there in a ceremony attended by Richard the Lionheart and Guy of Lusignan.

Jacques married Adela of Guise in 1180. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ameline de Guise.

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"A leader of the Fourth Crusade, Apr 1202. Defeated at the battle of Adrianople, Mar 1205, by the forces of Kaloyan, Tsar of the Bulgars, he was taken prisoner and executed, though the circumstances of his death are not precisely known. The Byzantine historian George Acropolites reports that the Tsar Kaloyan had Baudouin's skull made into a drinking cup." [The Ancestry of Dorothea Poyntz]

Baldwin married Marie of Champagne on 6 Jan 1186. Marie (daughter of Henry I of Champagne and Marie of France) was born about 1174; died on 9 Aug 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Holland.

Willem married Aleida van Gelre. Aleida (daughter of Otto I van Gelre and Richardis von Scheyern-Wittelsbach) was born about 1187; died on 4 Feb 1218. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1165
• Alternate death: Abt 3 Sep 1235, Koln, Germany

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Duke of Lorraine and Barbant. Margrave of Antwerp.

Henri married Machtild of Boulogne in 1179. Machtild (daughter of Mathieu of Flanders and Marie of England) was born about 1169; died between 1210 and 1211; was buried in Afflighem Abbey, Brabant, Belgium. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 5 Aug 1224

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Also called Mahaud; Maud; Mathilde d'Alsace; Mathilde of Flanders.

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Lord of Avesnes.

Nicholas married Matilda de la Roche before 1150. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Bernhard de Guise.

Bouchard married Alix. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Hainault and Flanders. Margrave of Namur.

Baldwin married Marguerite of Lorraine in Apr 1169. Marguerite (daughter of Thierri III of Lorraine and Sibyl of Anjou) was born between 1140 and 1145; died on 12 Nov 1194. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 17 Dec 1195

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Also called Marguerite of Flanders.

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Count of Champagne. Called "the Liberal."

Henry married Marie of France in 1164. Marie (daughter of Louis VII, King of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England) was born in 1145 in France; died on 11 Mar 1198 in Champagne, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Holland. Accompanied Barbarossa on the Third Crusade and died on the way.

Floris married Aleida of Scotland in 1162. Aleida (daughter of Henry of Scotland and Ada de Warenne) died after 11 Jan 1204. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Guelders. "Otto I of Guelders joined his Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa on the Third Crusade (1189-1192) during which he aided the Crusader army in the taking of Iconium. After the death of Frederick I Barbarossa, some of the crusaders in the army left for home but Otto joined one of the groups that went on towards Syria and Palestine. After arriving in the Holy Land, Otto joined the army of Guy of Lusignan, the King of Jerusalem, who was besieging the city of Acre. Further hardships decimated the army of the late Frederick, and by the spring of 1191 most of them had left for home. Otto was the only survivor from the Low Countries, and returned home in 1190." [Wikipedia]

Otto married Richardis von Scheyern-Wittelsbach. Richardis (daughter of Otto I of Bavaria and Agnes von Looz) was born about 1173; died on 7 Dec 1231. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1142
• Alternate death: 21 Aug 1190

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Count of Louvain. Duke of Lorraine. Duke of Brabant.

Godfrey married Margaret von Limburg in 1158. Margaret (daughter of Henry II of Limburg and Maud von Saffenberg) died in 1172. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 1173

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Count of Boulogne. Also called Matthew d'Alsace.

Killed at the Siege of Driencourt.

Mathieu married Marie of England in 1160. Marie (daughter of Stephen of Blois, King Of England and Maud of Boulogne, Queen Consort of England) was born in 1136; died in 1182 in Monastery of Sainte-Austreberthe, Montreuil, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Mary of Blois. Abbess of Romsey; Countess of Boulogne.

Wautier married Ida de Mortagne. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ade de Mortagne.

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Count of la Roche. Also called Henri de Namur. Mentioned 1102.

Henry married Matilda von Limburg. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Guy married Aveline de Montmorency dit Machanie. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Hainaut.

With Baldwin IV of Hainaut and his wife Alix de Namur, the line back from TNH's probable Quebec "gateway ancestor" Jean Sicard de Carufel joins up with the ancestry of proven TNH gateway ancestor Olive Welby.

Count of Hainault.

Baldwin married Alix de Namur about 1130. Alix (daughter of Godfrey of Namur and Ermisende of Luxembourg) died in Jul 1169. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adele, Ermensinde.

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Count of Alsace and Flanders. Also called Dietrich.

Thierri married Sibyl of Anjou in 1131. Sibyl (daughter of Fulk V, King of Jerusalem and Eremburge de la Flèche) was born in 1112; died in 1165. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1116

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• Alternate birth: 1093, Blois, Loir-et-Cher, France

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Count of Blois, Champagne, and Troyes. Nicknamed "le Grand".

Thibaut married Mathilde of Carinthia in 1123. Mathilde (daughter of Engelbert II von Sponheim and Uta of Passau) died on 13 Dec 1160 in Fontevault, Maine-et-Loir, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 13 Dec 1161, Fontevault, Maine-et-Loir, France

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Also called Machaldis, Matildis, Mathildis, Matirdis, etc. Also called Mathilde von Kärnten. Also called Mathilde of Sponheim.

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• Alternate birth: 1121
• Alternate death: 19 Sep 1180

Louis married Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen Consort of France; Queen Consort of England in Jul 1137 in Cathedral of Saint-Andre, Bordeaux, Gironde, France. Eleanor (daughter of William X of Aquitaine and Aénor de Châtellerault) was born in 1122; died on 1 Apr 1204; was buried in Fontévrault Abbey, near Chinon, Anjou, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1124
• Alternate death: 31 Mar 1204, Poitiers, Vienne, Poitou-Charentes, France

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Also called Alienor, Helienordis. Duchess of Aquitaine.

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Count of Holland. Crusader in 1139.

Dirk married Sophia von Rheinick. Sophia (daughter of Otto I von Rheinick and Gertrude von Northeim) died on 26 Sep 1176. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1115

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Earl of Northumberland and of Huntingdon. Also called Eanric mac Dabid; Henry of Huntingdon.

"Henry, earl of Northumberland (c. 1115–1152), prince, was the only surviving adult son of David I (c. 1085–1153), king of Scots, and his queen, Maud (or Matilda) (d. 1131), widow of Simon (I) de Senlis. From c. 1128 his name was linked with his father's in governance, and in 1144 he appears as rex designatus ('king-designate'). Although the exact significance of this style is unclear, it seems certain that he had formally been proclaimed as future king; and in practice from the 1130s 'David's was a dual reign...with joint or at least coadjutorial royal government' (G. W. S. Barrow, ed., The charters of King David I: the written acts of David I king of Scots, 1124–53, and of his son Henry earl of Northumberland, 1139–52, 1999, p. 34). This partnership--though Henry was self-evidently the junior partner--had momentous consequences for the Scots monarchy's power and prestige. Henry shared fully in David's policies of modernization by which Scotland began to be transformed into a European-style kingdom, and above all he was inseparably associated with his father in furthering historic Scottish claims to 'northern England'. Leading vast armies against King Stephen, they made extensive gains at his expense." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

Henry married Ada de Warenne after 9 Apr 1139. Ada (daughter of William II de Warenne and Isabel de Vermandois) died in 1178. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Or Adeline.

From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography:

Her public role as first lady of the Scottish court (there was no queen of Scotland from 1131 to 1186) was originally limited by her numerous pregnancies; but her fecundity averted a catastrophe when Henry, the expected successor to the kingship, died prematurely in 1152. During her widowhood she enjoyed in full measure the respect and status to which she was entitled as mother of two successive Scots kings, Malcolm IV and William the Lion. After Malcolm's enthronement as a boy of twelve in 1153, she figured prominently in his counsels and was keenly aware of her responsibilities. According to the well-informed William of Newburgh, Malcolm's celibacy dismayed her, and she endeavoured, albeit fruitlessly, to sharpen his dynastic instincts by placing a beautiful maiden in his bed. She was less frequently at William the Lion's court from 1165, no doubt because of the periodic illnesses that obliged her to turn to St Cuthbert for a cure.

Ada's cosmopolitan tastes and connections reinforced the identification of Scottish élite society with European values and norms. Reginald of Durham regarded her piety as exemplary, and she played a notable role in the expansion of the reformed continental religious orders in Scotland. If she had a preference, it was for female monasticism, and by 1159 she had founded a priory for Cistercian nuns at Haddington, apparently at the instigation of Abbot Waldef of Melrose (d. 1159). Her household attracted Anglo-Norman adventurers, and she personally settled in Scotland knights from Northumberland and from the great Warenne honours in England and Normandy.

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"The Younger." Count of Guelders. Count of Zutphen.

Hendrik married Agnes von Arnstein about 1135. Agnes (daughter of Ludwig II von Arnstein and Udelhild von Odenkirchen) died before 1179. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"The Redhead." Duke of Bavaria. He was a close friend and ally of Barbarossa. His deeds are commemorated on tapestries in the White Hall of the royal palace at Munich.

The oddity of Otto I following his father Otto II is explained by the fact that his father Otto II was Palatine of Bavaria, whereas this Otto was the first Otto to be Duke.

Otto married Agnes von Looz. Agnes (daughter of Ludwig I of Looz and Agnes von Metz) was born about 1150; died in 1192. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Louvain.

Godfrey married Luitgarde of Sulzbach in 1139. Luitgarde (daughter of Berengar I of Sulzbach and Adelheid von Diessen) died after 1162. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Limburg. Count of Arlon. Died while campaigning with Frederick Barbarossa in Italy, in the epidemic of 1167 at Rome.

Henry married Maud von Saffenberg. Maud (daughter of Adalbert von Saffenberg and Mechtild) died on 2 Jan 1145; was buried in Abbey of Rolduc, Kerkrade, Netherlands. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Between 1095 and 1096

Stephen married Maud of Boulogne, Queen Consort of England in 1125. Maud (daughter of Eustache III of Boulogne and Mary of Scotland) was born about 1072; died on 30 May 1151; was buried in Faversham Abbey, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1105
• Alternate death: 3 Jul 1151, Hedingham Castle, Kent, England

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Suo jure Countess of Boulogne and Lens.