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Marie of Hohenstaufen (3 April 1201 – 29 March 1235) was a member of the powerful Hohenstaufen dynasty. She was the third daughter of Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina of Byzantium.

Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina of Byzantium, the parents of Marie of Hohenstaufen

Family

Also known as Maria of Swabia, Marie 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. Her maternal grandparents were Byzantine Emperor Isaac II Angelos and his first wife Herina Tornikaina¹.

Emperor Frederick II was her first cousin.

In 1208, at the age of seven, Marie 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. Marie had three surviving sisters.

Siblings

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

Marriage and children

Sometime before 22 August 1215, she married Henry II, Duke of Brabant in Brabant (present-day Belgium). Marie was his first wife. They had six children, and through them, Marie is the ancestress of every royal house in Europe:

• Matilda of Brabant (1224 - 29 September 1288). Married firstly, Robert I of Artois, by whom she had two children, Robert II of Artois and Blanche of Artois, and secondly Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol, by whom she had six children.
• Beatrix of Brabant (1225 - 11 November 1288). Married Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia, and secondly William III of Dampierre. Died childless.
• Marie 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 (d. 14 March 1277). Abbess of Herzogenthal.
• Henry III, Duke of Brabant (c. 1230 - 28 February 1261). Married Alice 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

Marie of Hohenstaufen died on 29 March 1235 in Leuven, Brabant, five days before her thirty-fourth birthday. In 1240, Henry married his second wife, Sophie of Thuringia, the daughter of Ludwig IV of Thuringia and Elisabeth of Hungary. They had two children: Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse and Elizabeth of Brabant, who married Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg.

References

Sources

1. Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, "Swabia"
2. Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, Byzantium (1057- 1204)

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