Marguerite d’Alsace

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).