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Henry II, Duke of Brabant
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'''Henry II of Brabant''' (French: ''Henri II de Brabant'', Dutch: ''Hendrik II van Brabant'', 1207 – February 1, 1248 in Leuven) was Duke of Brabant and Duke of Lothier Lothier after the death of his father Henry I, Duke of Brabant Henry I in 1235.
He supported his cousin, William II, Count of Holland, when the latter was chosen as German King.
Family and children
His first marriage was to Marie of Hohenstaufen ( 1201– 1235, Leuven), daughter of Philip of Swabia, by whom he had six children:
# Henry III, Duke of Brabant (d. 1261)
# Philip, died young
# Matilda ( 1224 – September 29, 1288), married:
## in Compiègne June 14, 1237 to Robert I of Artois;
## before May 31, 1254 to Guy II of Châtillon, Count of Saint Pol.
# Beatrix ( 1225 – November 11, 1288), married:
## at Kreuzburg March 10, 1241 Heinrich Raspe Landgrave of Thuringia;
## in Leuven November 1247 to William III of Dampierre, Count of Flanders (1224 – June 6, 1251).
# Marie (c. 1226 – January 18, 1256, Donauwörth), married Louis II, Duke of Bavaria Duke of Upper Bavaria. She was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.
# Margaret (d. March 14, 1277), Abbess of Herzogenthal.
His second marriage was to Sophie of Thuringia ( March 20, 1224 – May 29, 1275), daughter of Ludwig IV of Thuringia and Elisabeth of Hungary by whom he had two children:
# Henry I of Hesse Henry ( 1244– 1308, created Landgrave of Hesse in 1263.
# Elizabeth ( 1243 – October 9, 1261), married in Braunschweig July 13, 1254 to Albert I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg
See also
* Dukes of Brabant family tree
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Category:1207 births
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