Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 17 November 1194.
Place of Death: unknown.
From the “Obituaire de l’abbaye de Brogne” (Analectes, p. 353): “XV kal. decembris. Obierunt Margareta, comitissa Hainonensis”. Barbier’s note gives the year.
Relationships
Father: Thierry d’Alsace, count of Flanders.
This relationship is given by père Anselme ( 2:777), by Nicholas (p. 122), by van Eickels, and by Keats-Rohan (p. 242).
Mother: Sybil d’Anjou.
This relationship is given by père Anselme ( 2:777), by Nicholas (p. 122), by van Eickels, and by Keats-Rohan (p. 242).
Spouse: Baudouin V, count of Hainaut (Baldwin VIII, count of Flanders).
This relationship is given by père Anselme (1:79; 2:777), by van Eickels, and by Keats-Rohan (p. 242).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Isabelle (23 April 1170 - 14 or 15 March 1190) married Philippe II “Auguste”, king of France.
Baldwin IX (July 1171 - 11 June 1205), count of Flanders, emperor of Constantinople, married Marie de Champagne.
Yolende (about 1175 - 24 or 26 August 1219) married Pierre (II), lord of Courtenay (later Pierre I, emperor of Constantinople).
Philip (March 1174 - 15 October 1212) married Marie de France.
Henry (about 1176 - 11 July 1216), emperor of Constantinople, married (1) Agnese di Monferrato 4 February 1207 in Constantinople; married (2) Marija of Bulgaria.
Sibyl (died 9 January 1217), married Guichard IV of Beaujeu.
References
Anselme de Sainte-Marie. Histoire Généalogique et Chronologique de la Maison Royale de France, des Pairs, Grands Officiers de la Couronne, de la Maison du Roy et des Anciens Barons du Royaume. 9 Volumes (Paris: 1726-1733).
Barbier, J. ed. “Obituaire de l’abbaye de Brogne our de Saint-Gérard, de l’ordre de Saint-Benoît” in Analectes pour servir a l’histoire ecclésiatique de la Belgique, vol. 18 (1882).
Eickels, Karl van. Flandern genealogical table in volume 9 of Lexikon des Mittelalters. Munich: LexMA-Verlag, 1980-1998.
Gilbert of Mons. Chronicle of Hainaut . (Laura Napran, trans.). (The Boydell Press, 2005).
Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).
Nicholas, Karen S. “Countesses as Rulers in Flanders” in Aristocratic Women in Medieval France (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999).