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Personal data MATHILDE de BOURBON 

• She was born in the year 1165 in Bourbon-l'Archambault, Allier, Bourbonnais, France.
• Title: Lady of Bourbon
• She died on June 18, 1228 in Fontevrault, Maine-et-Loire, Pays de la Loire, France, she was 63 years old.
• A child of ARCHAMBAUD VIII de BOURBON and ALICE de BURGUNDY

Household of MATHILDE de BOURBON

(1) She is married to GUY II de DAMPIERRE.

They got married on June 9, 1196 at Bourbon-l'Archambault, Allier, Bourbonnais, France, she was 31 years old.

Child(ren):

1. Marguerite de DAMPIERRE  1206-????
2. Guy de DAMPIERRE  1204-< ????
3. Marie de DAMPIERRE  1202-???? 
4. Mahaut Philippe de DAMPIERRE  1196-1223
5. Guillaume de DAMPIERRE  1196-1231 
6. ARCHAMBAUD VIII de BOURBON  1189-1242 

(2) She is married to Gaucher de MACON.

They got married about 1183.

Child(ren):

1. Marguerite de SALINS  ± 1190-± 1259

Notes about MATHILDE de BOURBON

Matilda was the only child of Archambault of Bourbon and his wife Alix (or Adelaide) of Burgundy. She was born in the second half of the 1160s. Her father, the heir apparent of Bourbon, died in 1169, without ever inherting the Lordship. Her grandfather, Archambault VII, died in 1171. Since Mathilde was his only surviving grandchild, she inherited Bourbon in her own right.

Before 1183, she married Gaucher IV of Vienne, Lord of Salins. After he returned from the Third Crusade, they frequently quarreled. In the end, he became violent and had her locked up. She fled to her grandmother's estate in Champagne. During her escape, she allegedly also used violence, and for this she was excommunicated by Archbishop Henri de Sully of Bourges. After she arrived in Champagne, she asked Pope Celestine III for a divorce from her husband, arguing that Gaucher IV and she were close relatives and that the marriage therefore had been inadmissible. The Pope tasked the bishops of Autun and Troyes and the abbot of Monthiers-en-Argonne with investigating her claim. These men found that Mathilde and her husband were third cousins, as they were both great-great-grandchildren of William II, Count of Burgundy, and that, therefore, her claim that they were too closely related was justified. The pope granted the divorce, and also lifted the excommunication.

In September 1196, only a few months after her divorce, she married Lord Guy II of Dampierre. Thus, the Bourbonnais fell to the House of Dampierre. This marriage lasted 20 years: he died in 1216.

Mathilde died two years after her husband. After her death, Margaret, her daughter from her first marriage claimed the Lordship of Bourbon. Guy II, had initially recognized Margaret as heir of Bourbon, however, he later claimed the Lordship for his oldest son, Archambault VIII. In the end, Archambault prevailed.

Her first husband was Gaucher IV of Vienne, Lord of Salins. Together, they had one daughter:
Margaret of Vienne (c.?1190/95 - c.?1259), married: William III of Forcalquier and Joceran, Lord of Brancion

Her second husband was Guy II of Dampierre. With him, she had seven children:
Archambaud VIII (1189-1242), Lord of Bourbon
William II (1196-1231), married Margaret II, Countess of Flanders and Hainaut (d. 1280), a daughter of Latin Emperor Baldwin I of Constantinople
Philippe (d. 1223), married in 1205 to Guigues IV, Count of Forez (d. 1241)
Guy III of Dampierre (d. 22 March 1275)
Marie, married: around 1201 to Hervé of Vierzon and in 1220 to Henry I of Sully
Guy III of Dampierre (d. 22 March 1275)
Joan
Margaret
SOURCE: www.wikipedia

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