Henry II

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• Also Known As: "the Couragesous" & "the Magnanimous"
• Fact: 1235-1248, Duke of Lorraine and Brabant

Henry married Princess of Germany Marie Of SWABIA before 22 Aug 1215. Marie (daughter of Phillipp II King Of GERMANY and Princess of the East Irene ANGELICA) was born about 1201; died between 1235 and 1240 in Louvain. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mary Of BRABANT was born about 1226; died on 18 Jan 1256 in Donauworth.
2. Henry III was born about 1233 in Louvain, Brabant; died on 28 Feb 1260/1.
3. Beatrice Of BRABANT was born in 1225; died on 11 Nov 1288.
4. Matilda Of BRABANT was born about 1224; died on 29 Sep 1288; was buried in Abbaye De Cercamp, Artois, france.
5. Abbess of Herzogenthal Margaret Of BRABANT died on 14 Mar 1277.
6. Philip Of BRABANT died in young.

Henry married Sophia Of Thuringia And HESSE about 1240. Sophia (daughter of Lewis VI Landgrave Of THURINGIAHESSEN and Elizabeth Of HUNGARY) was born on 20 Mar 1224; died on 29 May 1275. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Elizabeth Of BRABANT was born in 1243.
2. Isabel Landgrave Of HESSE
3. Henry I Landgrave Of HESSE was born in 1245; died on 08 Sep 1308.

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• Fact: Duke of Louvaine and Brabant
• Fact: Count of Louvain

Henri married Maud Of BOULOGNE in 1179. Maud (daughter of Matthew I Of ALSACE and Marie Of BLOIS) was born about 1160 in Boulogne, Pas-De-Calais, France; died in 1210. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Matilda of Alsace and Flanders
• Name: Matilda Of Boulogne
• Name: Maud Of Alsace
• Death: 1240

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• Also Known As: Count of Louvain
• Fact: Duke of Louvain
• Death: 10 Aug 1186

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He was the son of Godfrey II and Lutgarde of Sulzbach. He was still an infant at his succession. On 30 Mar 1147, Godfrey was present at the coronation of Henry Beregar, son of Conrad III Of Germany, in Aachen. When Conrad left on Crusade, the wars began anew in 1148. Peace was elusive until the election of Conrad's successor, Freerick Barbarossa. By Marriage to margaret, daughter of Henry II Of Linburg, Godfrey united two powerful and antagonistic houses in the region.

In 1159 Godfrey ended the war with the Berthout, Lords of Grimbergen, by burning their impressive motte at Grimbergen. In 1171 Godfrey was at war with Hainault, but was defeated. In 1179, he gave his son Henry in marriage to a niece of Philip of Alsace, Count of Flanders.

Between 1182 and 1184 Godfrey went on a Jerusalem campaign. In the interim, Barbarossa granted Henry the title "Duke of Brabant". Godfrey died in 1190, on 10 or 21 August. He left an increased territory and built the fortress of Nedelaer.

Godfrey married Margaret VON LIMBURG before 1155. Margaret (daughter of Count of Arlon Henri II Duke Of LIMBURG and Matilda VON SAFFENBURG) was born in 1139 in Lorraine, France; died in 1172. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Count of Boulogne

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Matthew died ath the seige of Driencourt.

Matthew married Marie Of BLOIS in 1160. Marie (daughter of Stephen of BLOIS and Matilda Of BOULOGNE) was born about 1136 in Blois, Loir-Et-Cher, France; died between 1181 and 1182 in St Austrebert, Eure-Et-Loir, France; was buried in Nunnery of St Austrebert, Eure-Et-Loir, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Countess of Boulogne
• Fact: Princess of England, Countess of Mortain
• Fact: A Nun at Stratford
• Fact: Romsey; Prioress at Lillechurch, abbess of Rumsey
• Birth: 1131
• Death: 1180

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DeBrett's Kings and Queens of Britain by Williamson states "the marriage was annulled in 1169. In "Lives of the Princesses of England", Vol. I,pgs 196-212, Green writes how Mary was used as the political tool of Henry II of England to help secure his continental possessions: Mary's only brother William died, leaving her countess of Boulogne and Mortagne. The king, despite her vows, "then considered so sacred, which bound her to a life of perpetual virginity," had her taken from the monastery and married against her will to Matthew of Alsace. The nun found herself "the innocent object of execration to the whole Catholic world" and her marriage described as "execrable nuptials." Matthew was excommunicated; his bride was not indicating she was held faultless in the matter. Bologne was placed under an interdict, which was followed by "an interdict of fire and water, by which any one who assisted the earl in procuring even the ordinary necessaries of life was subjected to the same penalties as he himself had incurred." Eventually, her husband allowed Mary to return to the cloister, and in 1169 she entered the Benedictine nunnery of St. Austrebert near Montreuil, where she remained until her death 13 years later.

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• Fact: Count of Louvain
• Fact: Duke of Brabant

Godfrey married Luitgarde VON SULTZBACH about 1139. Luitgarde (daughter of Berenger II Count Of SULZBACH and Adelaide VON WOLFRATSAUSEN) was born about 1120 in Sulzbach, Germany; died after 1162. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Heinrich

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He succeeded his father in Limburg with the title of duke, but Conrad III refused grant him Lower Lorraine. He continued to style himself as duke nevertheless.

Henry refused at first to accept the loss of Lorraine and attacked the new duke, Godfrey VII. He was defeated. Godfrey died in 1142, but Henry was occupied with a war against the lord of Fauquemont and did not assert any claim to the cudhy of Lower Lorraine.

In 1147, he inherited Arlon, his younger brother Waleran having died without children. Conrad confirmed this, for he had promised Henry a fief to compensate for the loss of Lorraine, and the duke and the king were reconciled. Henry did not take part in the Second Crusade that year, however, Henry attended the coronation of Conrad's successor, Frederick Barbarossa.

At that time, Henry was involved in a war with Henry IV of Luxembourg. The town of Andenne was taken and completely plumdered and burned. Then Henry turned to Godfrey VIII, but they soon made peace in 1155.

Henry took part in Barbarossa's Italian campaigns, dying during the epidemic of 1167 at Rome.

Henri married Matilda VON SAFFENBURG in 1136. Matilda (daughter of Adolf Count Of SAFFENBERG and Margaret VON SCHWARTZENBURG) was born in Lorraine, France; died on 02 Jan 1145. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Name: Dietrich Von Lothringen II Of Lorraine
• Fact: 1128, Count of Flanders

Thierry married Sybil Of ANJOU in 1131-1134. Sybil (daughter of Foulques V 'the Young" D'ANJOU and Ermengarde DE MAINE) was born in 1112; died in 1165 in Bethlehem. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Was a nun in the Abbey of St. Lazarus, Bethleham

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• Fact: Stephen of Blois
• Fact: Count of Boulogne
• Fact: Count of Mortain
• Fact: King of England
• Crowned: 26 Dec 1135, Westminster Abbey
• Crowned: 25 Dec 1141

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After his capture and release by Matilda the Empress (whose throne, some believed,he usurped), Stephen was recrowned but not reconsecrated, insisting "that he had never been deposed."

On Henry I's death in 1135, Stephen usurped the throne from Matilda, Henry's daughter, and most of his reign was marked by civil war with the rival claimant. Order was not restored until 1153, when her son, Henry of Anjou, compelled the barons to recognize him as the heir to the throne.

Stephen married Matilda Of BOULOGNE about 1120. Matilda (daughter of Eustache III and Mary Of SCOTLAND) was born about 1105 in Boulogne, Pas-De-Calais, France; died on 03 May 1152 in Hedingham Castle, Essex, England; was buried in Faversham Abbey. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Crowned: 22 Mar 1136, Westminster Abbey
• Death: 3 Jul 1151, Hedingham Castle, Kent