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Henry II of Brabant (Dutch: Hendrik, French: Henri; 1207 – February 1, 1248) was Duke of Brabant and Lothier after the death of his father Henry I in 1235. His mother was Matilda of Boulogne. [1] Henry II supported his sister Mathilde's son, William II of Holland, in his bid for election as king of Germany. [1] He founded Valduc Abbey in 1232 ...
Coat of arms of the Duchy of Brabant.. The Duke of Brabant (Dutch: hertog van Brabant, French: duc de Brabant) was the ruler of the Duchy of Brabant since 1183/1184. The title was created by the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick Barbarossa in favor of Henry I of the House of Reginar, son of Godfrey III of Leuven (who was duke of Lower Lorraine at that time).
Henry I (Dutch: Hendrik, French: Henri; c. 1165 – 5 September 1235), named "The Courageous", was a member of the House of Reginar and first duke of Brabant from 1183/84 until his death. Early life [ edit ]
Sophie of Thuringia (20 March 1224 – 29 May 1275) was the second wife and only Duchess consort of Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier.She was the heiress of Hesse which she passed on to her son, Henry upon her retention of the territory following her partial victory in the War of the Thuringian Succession in which she was one of the belligerents.
Dukes of Brabant and Dukes of Lothier: Coat of arms of the Dukes of Brabant and Limburg. Henry I (1190–1235); already Duke of Brabant from 1183/1184; Henry II (1235–1248) Henry III (1248–1261), his younger half brother Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse inherited Hesse from his mother and became the founder of the House of Hesse; Henry IV (1261 ...
Married first Henry I of Navarre and secondly Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster. [4] Robert II, Count of Artois (1250 – 11 July 1302 at the Battle of the Golden Spurs). [1] On 8 February 1250, Robert I was killed while participating in the Seventh Crusade. [5] On 16 January 1255, Matilda married her second husband Guy III, Count of ...
Their title was eventually inherited by their competitors, the dukes of Brabant, and became part of the large collection of titles of the Burgundian Netherlands, eventually passing to the Hapsburgs. After the occupation in 1794 by the French, the old Austrian Duchy of Limburg was disbanded and the largest part was absorbed into the département ...
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.