Ancestral Trails 2016 » HEINRICH de BRABANT II (1207-????)

Personal data HEINRICH de BRABANT II 

• He was born in the year 1207 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium.
• Title: Duke of Brabant
• (Ancestry) : House of Reginar.
• He died on February 1, 1247/48 in Louvain, Brabant, Belgium, he was 40 years old.
• A child of HEINRICH de BRABANT and MAUD de FLANDERS

Household of HEINRICH de BRABANT II

(1) He is married to MARIE von SCHWABIA.

They got married before August 22, 1215 at Louvain, Brabant, Belgium.

Child(ren):

1. Maria de BRABANT  1226-1256
2. MATILDA de BRABANT  1228-1288 
3. HEINRICH de BRABANT  1233-???? 
4. Beatrix de BRABANT  1225-1288

• The couple has common ancestors.



(2) He is married to Sophie von THURINGIA.

They got married in the year 1240 at Louvain, Brabant, Belgium, he was 33 years old.




Child(ren):

1. Heinrich von HESSE  1244-1308 
2. Elizabeth de BRABANT  1243-1261


• The couple has common ancestors.



Notes about HEINRICH de BRABANT II

Henry II of Brabant (Dutch: Hendrik II van Brabant, 1207 - February 1, 1248) was Duke of Brabant and Lothier after the death of his father Henry I in 1235. His mother was Mathilde of Flanders.

Henry II supported his sister Mathilde's son, William II, Count of Holland, in the latter's bid for election as German King.

His first marriage was to Marie of Hohenstaufen (April 3, 1207-1235, Leuven), daughter of Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina. They had six children:

Henry III, Duke of Brabant (d. 1261)
Philip, died young
Matilda of Brabant (1224 - September 29, 1288), married: Robert I of Artois, 14 June 1237, in Compiègne
before May 31, 1254 to Guy II of Châtillon, Count of Saint Pol.
Beatrix (1225 - November 11, 1288), married: at Creuzburg March 10, 1241, Heinrich Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia; in Leuven November 1247 to William III of Dampierre, Count of Flanders (1224 - June 6, 1251).
Maria of Brabant (c. 1226 - January 18, 1256, Donauwörth), married Louis II, Duke of Upper Bavaria. She was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.
Margaret (d. March 14, 1277), Abbess of Valduc Abbey (Hertogendal).

His second marriage was to Sophie of Thuringia (March 20, 1224 - May 29, 1275), daughter of Ludwig IV of Thuringia and Saint Elisabeth of Hungary by whom he had two children:

Henry (1244-1308), created Landgrave of Hesse in 1264.
Elizabeth (1243 - October 9, 1261), married Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Henry died in Leuven, aged about 40.
SOURCE: Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II,_Duke_of_Brabant

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