Margaret of Brabant (1323-1380)

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Margaret of Brabant

Margarete von Brabant (also Margaretha von Brabant ; * February 9, 1323 , † around April 25, 1380 in the castle Château-Regnault (in today's French community Bogny-sur-Meuse )) was a Countess of Flanders .

Life

Margarete von Brabant was the second daughter of Duke John III. von Brabant and Marie d'Evreux, a daughter of Louis of France , Count of Évreux . In 1340 Margaret was with Edward of Woodstock , the eldest son of the English King Edward III. , engaged, but in the end the intended marriage did not materialize. In 1345 negotiations began to marry Margaret with Ludwig von Male , heir to the counties of Flanders, Nevers and Rethel . The father of Ludwig von Male, Count Ludwig I of Flanders, hoped that this marriage would help the Brabantans to put down the rebellion in Flanders, while Margaret's father sought an alliance with allies of France and beyond that through the future marriage of his daughter to Ludwig von Male received the prospect of regaining the rule of Mechelen .

After the death of his father in the Battle of Crécy (August 26, 1346), Ludwig von Male became the new Count of Flanders. On July 1, 1347, he married Margarete von Brabant, who did not develop an independent political profile. The only surviving child that emerged from this relationship was the daughter Margarete , baptized on April 13, 1350 , who was to marry the Burgundian Duke Philip the Bold 19 years later .

The eldest sister of Margarete von Brabant, Johanna , was born in 1355 after the death of her father Johann III. as sole heir, Duchess of Brabant and Limburg . Ludwig von Male did not accept this regulation, was militarily successful in the subsequent Brabant War of Succession (1356-57) and achieved that the rule of Mechelen and Antwerp were ceded to him. Margarete could now call herself Mistress of Mechelen and also received significant income from the Antwerp possessions. The tense relationship between Flanders and Brabant due to the war improved again from 1367.

Probably because there was a marital dispute between Margarete and her husband because of his infidelity, Ludwig von Male had Margarete imprisoned in 1371 in the Château-Regnault in the County of Rethel, where she died in 1380 at the age of 57. After the death of Louis von Male (January 30, 1384), Philip the Bold organized a solemn funeral in honor of his deceased in-laws on February 29 and March 1, 1384 in the collegiate church of Saint-Pierre in Lille and left the corpse of Margarete that had been transferred there Burial side of her husband.

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  1. M. Vandermaesen: Margarete 19 . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 6, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7608-8906-9 , Sp. 241.