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Princess Maria de Hohenstaufen

1201-1235
Born: Swabia, Germany
Died: Brabant, Meuse, Lorraine, France

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    <span dir="auto">Maria of Swabia</span> <!-- /firstHeading --><!-- bodyContent --> <div><!-- tagline --> <div>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> <!-- /tagline --><!-- subtitle --> <div>(Redirected from Marie of Hohenstaufen)</div> <!-- /subtitle --><!-- jumpto --> <div>Jump to: navigation, search</div> <!-- /jumpto --><!-- bodycontent --> <div> <tbody> <tr><th class="fn" style="background: #99badd; text-align: center; color: #000000; font-size: 125%; font-weight: bold;" colspan="2">Maria of Hohenstaufen</th></tr> <tr><th style="text-align: left;" scope="row">Spouse(s)</th> <td style="text-align: left;"><a title="Henry II, Duke of Brabant" href="wiki/Henry_II,_Duke_of_Brabant">Henry II, Duke of Brabant</a> and <a title="Duke of Lothier" href="wiki/Duke_of_Lothier">Lothier</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="text-align: left;" colspan="2"> <p><strong>Issue</strong></p> <a class="mw-redirect" title="Matilda of Brabant" href="wiki/Matilda_of_Brabant">Matilda of Brabant</a><br><a title="Beatrice of Brabant" href="wiki/Beatrice_of_Brabant">Beatrice of Brabant</a><br><a class="new" title="Maria of Brabant (1226&ndash;1256) (page does not exist)" href="w/index.php?title=Maria_of_Brabant_(1226%E2%80%931256)&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1">Maria of Brabant</a><br>Margaret of Brabant<br><a title="Henry III, Duke of Brabant" href="wiki/Henry_III,_Duke_of_Brabant">Henry III, Duke of Brabant</a><br>Philip of Brabant</td> </tr> <tr><th style="text-align: left;" scope="row"><a title="Nobility" href="wiki/Nobility">Noble family</a></th> <td style="text-align: left;"><a class="mw-redirect" title="Hohenstaufen" href="wiki/Hohenstaufen">Hohenstaufen</a></td> </tr> <tr><th style="text-align: left;" scope="row">Father</th> <td style="text-align: left;"><a title="Philip of Swabia" href="wiki/Philip_of_Swabia">Philip of Swabia</a></td> </tr> <tr><th style="text-align: left;" scope="row">Mother</th> <td style="text-align: left;"><a title="Irene Angelina" href="wiki/Irene_Angelina">Irene Angelina</a> of <a title="Byzantium" href="wiki/Byzantium">Byzantium</a></td> </tr> <tr><th style="text-align: left;" scope="row">Born</th> <td style="text-align: left;">3 April 1201<br><a title="Arezzo" href="wiki/Arezzo">Arezzo</a>, <a title="Tuscany" href="wiki/Tuscany">Tuscany</a>, <a title="Italy" href="wiki/Italy">Italy</a></td> </tr> <tr><th style="text-align: left;" scope="row">Died</th> <td style="text-align: left;">29 March 1235 (aged 33)<br><a title="Leuven" href="wiki/Leuven">Leuven</a>, <a title="Flemish Brabant" href="wiki/Flemish_Brabant">Brabant</a></td> </tr> </tbody> <p><strong>Maria of Hohenstaufen</strong> (3 April 1201 &ndash; 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 <strong>Marie of Swabia</strong>.</p> <p>She was the third 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.</p> <tbody> <tr> <td> <div id="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> <span class="toctoggle"> [<a id="togglelink" class="internal" href="http://c.mfcreative.com/">hide</a>] </span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Family"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Family</span></a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Siblings"><span class="tocnumber">1.1</span> <span class="toctext">Siblings</span></a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Marriage_and_issue"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Marriage and issue</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Death"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Death</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Ancestry"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Ancestry</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Sources"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Sources</span></a></li> </ul> </td> </tr> </tbody> <span class="editsection">[<a title="Edit section: Family" href="w/index.php?title=Maria_of_Swabia&amp;action=edit&amp;section=1">edit</a>]</span> <span id="Family" class="mw-headline">Family</span> <div> <div style="width: 222px;"><img class="thumbimage" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Irene_Philipp.jpg/220px-Irene_Philipp.jpg" alt="" width="220" height="237"> <div> <div><img src="http://bits.wikimedia.org/static-1.21wmf8/skins/common/images/magnify-clip.png" alt="" width="15" height="11"></div> Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina of Byzantium, the parents of Maria of Hohenstaufen</div> </div> </div> <p>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.<sup><span style="font-size: small;"><span>[</span>1<span>]</span></span></sup></p> <p>Emperor Frederick II was her first cousin.</p> <p>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.</p> <span class="editsection">[<a title="Edit section: Siblings" href="w/index.php?title=Maria_of_Swabia&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2">edit</a>]</span> <span id="Siblings" class="mw-headline">Siblings</span> <ol> <li>Beatrice of Hohenstaufen (1198&ndash;1212), married Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor. The marriage was childless.</li> <li>Cunigunde of Hohenstaufen (1200&ndash;1248), married in 1228 King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia, by whom she had issue.</li> <li>Elizabeth of Hohenstaufen (1203 &ndash; 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.</li> </ol> <span class="editsection">[<a title="Edit section: Marriage and issue" href="w/index.php?title=Maria_of_Swabia&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3">edit</a>]</span> <span id="Marriage_and_issue" class="mw-headline">Marriage and issue</span> <p>Sometime before 22 August 1215, she married as his first wife Henry, 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:</p> <ul> <li>Matilda of Brabant (14 June 1224 &ndash; 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.</li> <li>Beatrix of Brabant (1225 &ndash; 11 November 1288), married firstly Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia, and secondly William III of Dampierre. She died childless.</li> <li>Maria of Brabant (c. 1226 &ndash; 18 January 1256), married Louis II, Duke of Bavaria. She was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.</li> <li>Margaret of Brabant (died 14 March 1277), Abbess of Herzogenthal.</li> <li>Henry III, Duke of Brabant (c. 1230 &ndash; 28 February 1261), married Adelaide of Burgundy (c. 1233 &ndash; 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.</li> <li>Philip of Brabant, died young.</li> </ul> <span class="editsection">[<a title="Edit section: Death" href="w/index.php?title=Maria_of_Swabia&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4">edit</a>]</span> <span id="Death" class="mw-headline">Death</span> <p>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.</p> <p>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-L&uuml;neburg. Sophie was the only wife of Henry to be styled Duchess of Brabant and Lothier.</p> </div> </div>

 
 
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