Mahaut of Brabant

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• Alternate death: 29 Oct 1288

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Also called Mathilde of Brabant.

Mahaut married Robert of France on 14 Jun 1237. Robert (son of Louis VIII, King of France and Blanche of Castile, Queen Consort of France) was born on 17 Sep 1216; died on 9 Feb 1250 in Mansourah, Egypt. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Blanche of Artois was born about 1248; died on 2 May 1302 in Paris, France; was buried in Church of the Cordeliers, Paris, France.
2. Robert II was born after Aug 1250; died on 11 Jul 1302.

Mahaut married Guy II de Châtillon about 31 May 1254. Guy (son of Hugues de Châtillon and Marie d'Avesnes) was born about 1230; died on 12 Mar 1289. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Guy III de Châtillon was born in 1265; died on 6 Apr 1317; was buried in Abbey of Cercamp, Artois, France.

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Duke of Lorraine and Brabant. Called "Magnanimus."

Henri married Maria von Hohenstaufen on 22 Aug 1215. Maria (daughter of Philip II, King of Germany and Irene Angelina) was born about 1201; died in 1235. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Abt 1240

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Also called Mary of Swabia.

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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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• Alternate birth: Feb-Mar 1177, Pavia, Lombardy, Italy
• Alternate birth: 1181

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Phillip of Hohenstaufen, Duke Of Swabia, "King of the Romans". Was never formally made Holy Roman Emperor.

Murdered by Otto of Wittelsbach.

Philip married Irene Angelina on 25 May 1197. Irene (daughter of Isaac II Angelos, Emperor of Byzantium and (First wife of Isaac II Angelos)) was born about 1181 in Constantinople; died on 27 Aug 1208 in Hohenstaufen Castle, Bavaria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Eirene-Maria of Byzantium.

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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.

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Drowned in the Saleph River (now known as the Göksu) while leading an army in the Third Crusade.

Frederick married Beatrice of Burgundy on 9 Jun 1156 in Würzburg, Germany. Beatrice (daughter of Renaud III of Burgundy and Agatha of Lorraine) was born about 1144; died on 15 Nov 1184 in Jouhe, Jura, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 15 Nov 1185

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Byzantine Emperor from 1185 to 1195, and again from 1203 to 1204.

"Isaac has the reputation as one of the most unsuccessful princes to occupy the Byzantine throne. Surrounded by a crowd of slaves, mistresses, and flatterers, he permitted his empire to be administered by unworthy favourites, while he squandered the money wrung from his provinces on costly buildings and expensive gifts to the churches of his metropolis. During his reign the Empire lost Lefkada, Kefallonia, and Zakynthos to the Normans in 1185. In the same year the Bulgarian Empire was restored after the rebellion of the brothers Asen and Peter, thus losing Moesia and parts of Thrace and Macedonia. After that Cilicia was retaken by the Armenians, and Cyprus wrested from the empire by the Franks." [Wikipedia]

Isaac married (First wife of Isaac II Angelos). (First (daughter of Demetrios Tornikes and (Unknown sister of Euthymios Malakes)) died before 1185. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The origins of Isaac II Angelos's first wife are not known. She is frequently called "Irene", or some variant thereof, because her name is given as "Herina" in the necrology of Speyer Cathedral, where her son-in-law Phillip, Duke of Swabia and King of Germany, second husband of her daughter Irene Angelina (also called Eirene-Maria), is buried. But this is problematic because in this period of Byzantine history, it was a well-established custom that children were never given the names of her parents.

In this database we have followed, for her origins, the hypothesis set forth in "Eirene?, First Wife of Emperor Isaakios II Angelos, Is a Probable Tornikina and Gateway to Antiquity," by Don C. Stone and Charles R. Owens, citation details below, which puts forth the argument that "the first wife of Emperor Isaakios II Angelos was very likely a daughter of Demetrios Tornikes. We believe that our solution is the simplest way to accommodate all the evidence we have reviewed." Stone and Owens continue:

"We believe that the biographical information [...] provides additional support for this conclusion, showing, for example, political alliances that correlate with postulated family relationships. We noted that Demetrios Tornikes as judge of the velum opposed Andronikos Komnenos and almost paid for this resistance with death. The opposition of Isaakios Angelos, the future emperor, and his family to Andronikos Komnenos seems even more likely if the Angeloi were angered over Andronikos Komnenos' treatment of Demetrios Tornikes, father-in-law of Isaakios. Andronikos Komnenos' uncharacteristic lack of response to Angeloi opposition also seems more likely if Andronikos knew that Demetrios Tornikes was the father-in-law of Isaakios and understood the family's anger."

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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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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: 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.

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• Alternate death: 6 Apr 1147, Alzey, Germany

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Called Frederick the One-eyed. Duke of Swabia from 1105 to his death, second of the Hohenstaufen dynasty.

Frederick married Judith of Bavaria in 1121. Judith (daughter of Henry IX of Bavaria and Wulfhilde of Saxony) was born on 19 May 1100; died after 22 Feb 1130; was buried in Waldburg, Heiligen Forst, Alsace. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1103
• Alternate death: 27 Aug 1130

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Count of Macon and Burgundy.

Renaud married Agatha of Lorraine. Agatha (daughter of Simon I of Lorraine and Adelaide of Louvain) died in 1147. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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A Byzantine military leader in Asia Minor.

Andronikos married Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa. Euphrosyne was born about 1125; died after 1195. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"His father died at a young age, and Demetrios' oldest brother Georgios became head of the family. Georgios corresponded with Eirene, daughter of Anna Komnene (discussed above) and Nikephoros Bryennios, and arranged for Demetrios to be raised in Eirene's household as a companion for one of Eirene's sons and as a family servant. Anna was probably then spending much time at the Kecharitomene Convent, founded by her mother, but not yet permanently living there. 'The convent Kecharitomene, overlooking the Golden Horn, gave our historian the serenity she probably never enjoyed in the imperial palace.' According to her eulogy by Georgios Tornikes, she gathered about her there 'a philosophic circle whose work she inspired and directed.' Anna's daughter Eirene, widowed at a fairly early age, collaborated with her mother. Thus Demetrios Tornikes, raised in Eirene's household, was near the center of Anna Komnene's intellectual orbit. Demetrios no doubt also absorbed much about etiquette and protocol as a child. His association with this family continued, and his career culminated 'in the office of the logothete of the drome, effectively foreign minister of the empire.'" ["Eirene?, First Wife of Emperor Isaakios II Angelos, Is a Probable Tornikina and Gateway to Antiquity," by Don C. Stone and Charles R. Owens, citation details below.]

Demetrios married (Unknown sister of Euthymios Malakes). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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In a post to SGM on 25 Oct 2015, Peter Stewart says "Eirene could well have been the name of Eirene Angelina's maternal grandmother -- the eldest daughter of Isaac Angelos was named Euphrosyne (after his own mother), so the next daughter (as far as we know Eirene), customarily would have been named after her mother's mother. This woman may have been the wife of Demetrios Tornikes, whose son Konstantinos was called 'uncle' of Isaac's son Alexios IV, but this relies on less-than-compelling evidence."

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• Alternate death: 25 Jan 1140, Jerusalem

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

The Bearded ( "A La Barbe"); the Courageous; the Great.

Godfrey married Ida of Chiny and Namur about 1100. Ida (daughter of Otto II and Adelaide de Namur) was born about 1083; died between 1117 and 1122. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: Aft 1116

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Complete Peerage erroneously gives her as a daughter of her maternal grandparents, Albert III, Comte de Namur, and Isa Billung. Reflecting more recent proofs, Ancestral Roots and Royal Ancestry both give her the correct parents.

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Ancestral Roots gives two different dates for this marriage: 149-24 says "abt. 1105" and 155-23 says "abt. 1100".

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Count of Sulzbach. Sometimes enumerated as Berengar II.

Berengar married Adelheid von Diessen about 1100. Adelheid (daughter of Otto II and Justizia of Austria) died on 11 Jan 1126. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Adelaide Wolfratshausen.

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Count of Limburg. Count of Arlon.

Probably nicknamed "Paganus" due to a late baptism.

Walram married Judith von Wassenberg about 1110. Judith (daughter of Gerhard I von Wassenberg) was born in 1090; died on 24 Jun 1151. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Count of Nörvenich.

Adalbert married Mechtild. Mechtild died on 4 Nov 1110. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate death: 23 Jan 1115
• Alternate death: 30 Dec 1115

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Duke of Lorraine. Count of Flanders.

Thierri married Gertrude of Flanders between 1095 and 1096. Gertrude (daughter of Robert I "The Frisian" and Gertrude of Saxony) was born about 1070; died in 1117. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: 1092
• Alternate death: 13 Nov 1143, Acre, Palestine
• Alternate death: 10 Nov 1144, Jerusalem

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Count of Anjou 1109-1129; Count of Maine (jure uxoris) 1110-1129.

Fulk married Eremburge de la Flèche in 1110. Eremburge (daughter of Helie de la Flèche and Matilde de Chateau-du-Loir) died in 1126. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Ermengarde of Maine.

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Also called Stephen of Blois, confusingly enough.

Count Of Blois. Died at the Siege of Ramallah in the First Crusade.

Etienne married Adela of Normandy in 1080 in Chartres, Eure-et-Loir, Beauce, Centre, France. Adela (daughter of William I, King of England and Matilda of Flanders, Queen Consort of England) was born about 1061; died on 8 Mar 1137 in Convent of Marcigny-sur-Loire, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Alternate birth: Abt 1067
• Alternate death: 8 Mar 1138, Convent of Marcigny-sur-Loire, France

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Also called Adele of England.

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• Alternate death: Bef 1142, Rumilly-le-Comte Priory, Rumilly, Pas-de-Calais, France

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Count of Boulogne and Lens.

Died as a monk at Rumilly-le Comte Priory, to which he retired by 1125.

Eustache married Mary of Scotland. Mary (daughter of Malcolm III Canmore, King of Scotland (Alba) and St. Margaret of Scotland) died on 18 Apr 1118. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Swabia from 1079 to his death, the first ruler from the House of Hohenstaufen.

Frederick married Agnes of Germany about 1086. Agnes (daughter of Heinrich IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Bertha of Turin) was born in 1073; died on 24 Sep 1143; was buried in Klosterneuberg, Austria. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Also called Agnes of Waiblingen; Agnes von Franken.

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• Alternate birth: 1075

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Duke of Bavaria. Called "The Black."

Henry married Wulfhilde of Saxony about 1100. Wulfhilde (daughter of Magnus of Saxony and Sophia of Hungary) was born about 1075; died on 29 Dec 1126 in Weingarten Abbey, Ravensburg, Upper Swabia, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Weingarten Abbey is also called St. Martin's Abbey.

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Count Palatine of Burgundy; Count of Mâcon and Vienne. Called (like his father) "tête hardie", "the rash" or "the stubborn".

Fought in the Crusade of 1101, helping with the capture of Ancyra and fighting in the disastrous Battle of Mersivan, from which he barely escaped.

Stephen married Beatrix. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Duke of Lorraine.

"Continuing the policy of friendship with the Holy Roman Emperor, he accompanied the Emperor Henry V to the Diet of Worms of 1122, where the Investiture Controversy was resolved. He had stormy relations with the episcopates of his realm: fighting with Stephen of Bar, bishop of Metz, and Adalberon, archbishop of Trier, both allies of the count of Bar, whose claim to Lorraine against Simon's father had been quashed by Henry V's father Henry IV. Though Adalberon excommunicated him, Pope Innocent II lifted it. He was a friend of Bernard of Clairvaux and he built many abbeys in his duchy, including that of Sturzelbronn in 1135. There he was interred after his original burial in Saint-Dié." [Wikipedia]

Simon married Adelaide of Louvain. Adelaide (daughter of Henry III of Louvain and Gertrude of Flanders) died after 4 Nov 1158. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Constantine Angelos was a Byzantine admiral and panhypersebastos of Philadelphia, the commander of the Imperial Fleet in Sicily, who married Theodora Komnene (born 1097) in 1122, the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos and Irene Doukaina. According to the near-contemporary Niketas Choniates, Constantine was brave, skilled and handsome, but of lowly origin. He was the son of one Manolis Angelos from Philadelphia and had three brothers: Nikolaos Angelos, Michael Angelos and Ioannes Angelos, a military leader in Italy." [Wikipedia]

Constantius married Theodora Comnena about 1120. Theodora (daughter of Alexios I Komnenos, Emperor of Byzantium and Irene Doukaina) was born on 15 Jan 1096 in Constantinople. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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"Was in military service; died fairly young." ["Eirene?, First Wife of Emperor Isaakios II Angelos, Is a Probable Tornikina and Gateway to Antiquity," by Don C. Stone and Charles R. Owens, citation details below.]

(Unknown) married (Unknown niece of Theophylaktos, Bishop of Ohrid). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Theophylaktos was "a biblical commentator and tutor to Konstantinos Doukas, son of Emp. Michael VII." ["Eirene?, First Wife of Emperor Isaakios II Angelos, Is a Probable Tornikina and Gateway to Antiquity," by Don C. Stone and Charles R. Owens, citation details below.]