Maria of Swabia

Events

Date of Birth: 1201 (or 1196?).

Place of Birth: unknown.

Hucker gives 1201. Decker-Hauff (p. 360) gives March or April 1196, probably in Arezzo.

Date of Death: 1235.

Place of Death: Brabant.

The place and date are given by Decker-Hauff (p. 360).

Relationships

Father: Philip of Swabia, king of the Germans.

This relationship is given by Hucker, by Neu, and by Engels.

Mother: Irene Angelina.

This relationship is given by Hucker, by Neu, and by Engels.

Spouse: Henry II, duke of Brabant. Married about 1210 or 1211.

This relationship is given by Wauters, by Hucker, by Neu, and by Engels.

Children:

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Mathilde (1224 - 29 September 1288) married Robert (I), count of Artois; married (2) Guy de Châtillon, count of Saint-Pol.

Béatrix (1225 - 11 November 1288) married (1) Heinrich “Raspe”, king of Germany; married (2) Guillaume III, count of Flanders.

Henry III “le Pacifique” (died 1261), duke of Brabant, married Alix de Bourgogne.

Marie (died 18 January 1256) married Ludwig II “der Strenge”, duke of Bavaria.

Philippe (died young).

References

Decker-Hauff, Hansmartin. “Das Staufische Haus” in Die Zeit der Staufer: Katalog der Austellung Band III (Stuttgart, 1973).

Engels, Odilo. Die Staufer. 6th ed. (Verlag W. Kohlhammer: Stuttgart, 1994).

Hucker, Bernd Ulrich. “Philipp von Schwaben” in Neue Deutsche Biographie 20 (2001) S. 370-372 [Onlinefassung].

Neu, Heinrich. "Heinrich II" in Neue Deutsche Biographie 8 (1969), p. 348. [Online version, accessed 20 April 2018]

Wauters, Alphonse. “Henri I” and “Henri II” in Biographie Nationale de Belgique Volume 9 (Bruxelles:1886-1887). pp.106 - 137