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Birth:          3 Apr 1201 Arezzo, Tuscany
Death:          29 Mar 1235 Louvain, Brabant

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_of_Swabia
Maria of Hohenstaufen (3 April 1201 – 29 March 1235) was a member of the powerful 
Hohenstaufen dynasty of German kings which lasted from 1138 to 1254. She is also 
known to history as Marie of Swabia.

She was the second daughter of Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina of Byzantium, 
and her husband was Henry II, Duke of Brabant and Lothier. As she had died six 
months before her husband succeeded to the dukedom, Maria was never Duchess of 
Brabant and Lothier.
Family[edit]

Maria of Hohenstaufen was born in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy on 3 April 1201. Her 
paternal grandparents were Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor and Beatrice I, Countess 
of Burgundy, and her mother's parents were Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos and 
his first wife Herina.[1]

Emperor Frederick II was her first cousin.

In 1208, at the age of seven, Maria was left an orphan by the unexpected deaths of 
her parents. On 21 June, her father was murdered by Otto of Wittelsbach, and two 
months later her mother died after giving birth to a daughter, who did not live beyond 
early infancy. Maria had three surviving sisters.

Siblings[edit]
1.Beatrice of Hohenstaufen (1198–1212), married Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor. The 
marriage was childless.
2.Cunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1200–1248), married in 1228 King Wenceslaus I of 
Bohemia, by whom she had issue.
3.Elizabeth of Hohenstaufen (1203 – 5 November 1235), married in 1219 King 
Ferdinand III of Castile, by whom she had issue, including King Alfonso X of Castile. 
She was his first wife. Ferdinand married his second wife Jeanne de Dammartin, 
Countess of Ponthieu before August 1237, by whom he had issue, including Eleanor of 
Castile, Queen consort of King Edward I of England.

Marriage and issue[edit]

Sometime before 22 August 1215, she married as his first wife Henry II, heir to the 
Duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) and Lothier. They had six children, and 
through them, Maria is the ancestress of every royal house in Europe:
Matilda of Brabant (14 June 1224 – 29 September 1288), married firstly, Robert I of 
Artois, 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.
Beatrix of Brabant (1225 – 11 November 1288), married firstly Henry Raspe, Landgrave 
of Thuringia, and secondly William III of Dampierre. She died childless.
Maria of Brabant (c. 1226 – 18 January 1256), married Louis II, Duke of Bavaria. She 
was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.
Margaret of Brabant (died 14 March 1277), Abbess of Herzogenthal.
Henry III, Duke of Brabant (c. 1230 – 28 February 1261), married Adelaide of Burgundy 
(c. 1233 – 23 October 1273), daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, by whom he had 
issue, including Henry IV, Duke of Brabant, John I, Duke of Brabant, and Maria of 
Brabant, Queen consort of King Philip III of France.
Philip of Brabant, died young.

Death[edit]

Maria of Hohenstaufen died on 29 March 1235 in Leuven, Brabant, five days before 
her thirty-fourth birthday. Less than six months later, her husband succeeded his 
father as Duke of Brabant and Lothier.

In 1241, Henry married his second wife, Sophie of Thuringia, the daughter of Ludwig 
IV of Thuringia and Elisabeth of Hungary. The marriage produced two children: Henry 
I, Landgrave of Hesse and Elizabeth of Brabant, who married Albert I, Duke of 
Brunswick-Lόneburg. Sophie was the only wife of Henry to be styled Duchess of 
Brabant and Lothier.

Parents
VON HOHENSTAUFEN Philipp II (Feb 1177 - 21 Jun 1208)
ANGELINA Irene (Eirene) (Irini) Maria (ABT 1181 - 27 Aug 1208)

Siblings
VON HOHENSTAUFEN Maria (3 Apr 1201 - 29 Mar 1235)
VON HOHENSTAUFEN Elizabeth (1205 - 5 Nov 1235)

Marriage To ____ Henry (Henri) II "the Courageous" "the Magnanimous" (1207 - 1 Feb 1248)
    m. BEF 22 Aug 1215 

Notes

Parents
____ Henry I (1165 - 5 Sep 1235)
D'ALSACE AND FLANDERS Matilda (Maud) (1170 - 16 Oct 1210)

Children by ____ Henry (Henri) II "the Courageous" "the Magnanimous" 1207 - 1 Feb 1248
DE BRABANT Matilda (Mahaut) (Maud) (14 Jun 1224 - 29 Sep 1288)
____ Henri III (1230 - 28 Feb 1261)

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