Matilda of Boulogne, Duchess of Brabant

Not to be confused with Matilda of Flanders.

Matilde of Flanders
Spouse(s)	Henry I, Duke of Brabant
Noble family	House of Lorraine
Father	Matthew, Count of Boulogne
Mother	Marie I, Countess of Boulogne
Born	1170
Died	16 October 1210(1210-10-16)
Buried	St. Peter's Church, Leuven

Matilda of Flanders (1170 – 16 October 1210) was the younger daughter of Marie I, Countess of Boulogne, and her husband Matthew, Count of Boulogne. Matilda was Duchess of Brabant by her marriage to Henry I, Duke of Brabant.

Matilda's parents' marriage was annulled the year she was born and her mother became a Benedictine nun at St. Austrebert, Montreuil and died in 1182. Matilde's father continued to reign as Count of Boulogne until his death in 1173, when her older sister Ida became countess.

At the age of nine, Matilda married Henry I, Duke of Brabant, in 1179. The couple went on to have seven children:

• 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)
• Mathilde (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.

Ancestry

Family of Matilda of Boulogne, Duchess of Brabant

16. Gerard, Duke of Lorraine               8. Theodoric II, Duke of Lorraine                       17. Hedwig of Flanders               4. Theodoric, Count of Flanders                             18. Robert I, Count of Flanders               9. Gertrude of Flanders                       19. Gertrude of Saxony               2. Matthew, Count of Boulogne                                   20. Fulk IV, Count of Anjou               10. Fulk of Jerusalem                       21. Bertrade de Montfort               5. Sibylla of Anjou                             22. Elias I of Maine               11. Ermengarde of Maine                       23. Mathilda of Château-du-Loire               1. Matilde of Flanders                                         24. Theobald III, Count of Blois               12. Stephen II, Count of Blois                       25. Garsinde of Maine               6. Stephen, King of England                             26. William I of England               13. Adela of Normandy                       27. Matilda of Flanders               3. Marie I, Countess of Boulogne                                   28. Eustace II, Count of Boulogne               14. Eustace III, Count of Boulogne                       29. Ida of Lorraine               7. Matilda of Boulogne                             30. Malcolm III of Scotland               15. Mary of Scotland                       31. Saint Margaret of Scotland