Maria VON STAUFEN ²⁰¹¹

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  General Notes:

Maria of Swabia (1199/1200 \endash 29 March 1235) was a member of the powerful Hohenstaufen dynasty of German kings.

Maria of Hohenstaufen was born in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy around 1199/1200. She was the second daughter of Philip of Swabia and Irene Angelina of Byzantium.[1] In 1208, at the age of seven, Maria was left an orphan by the unexpected deaths of her parents. On 21 June, her father was murdered by Otto of Wittelsbach, and two months later her mother died after giving birth to a daughter, who did not live beyond early infancy.

Sometime before 22 August 1215, she married Henry II, heir to the Duchy of Brabant (present-day Belgium) and Lothier.[2] They had:

Matilda of Brabant (14 June 1224 \endash 29 September 1288), married firstly, Robert I of Artois,[2] by whom she had two children, Robert II of Artois and Blanche of Artois; she married secondly Guy III, Count of Saint-Pol, by whom she had six children.

Beatrix of Brabant (1225 \endash 11 November 1288), married firstly Henry Raspe, Landgrave of Thuringia, and secondly William III of Dampierre.[2] She died childless.

Maria of Brabant (c. 1226 \endash 18 January 1256),[2] married Louis II, Duke of Bavaria.[3] She was beheaded by her husband on suspicion of infidelity.[3]

Margaret of Brabant (died 14 March 1277), Abbess of Herzogenthal.

Henry III, Duke of Brabant (c. 1230 \endash 28 February 1261), married Adelaide of Burgundy (c. 1233 \endash 23 October 1273), daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, by whom he had issue

Philip of Brabant, died young.[2]

Maria of Hohenstaufen died on 29 March 1235 in Leuven, Brabant, five days before her thirty-fourth birthday. Less than six months later, her husband succeeded his father as Duke of Brabant and Lothier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_of_Swabia
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_de_Suabia

  Noted events in her life were:

1. She worked as a Princess of Germany. ²⁰¹⁵

2. She worked as a Duchess of Constaninople. ²⁰¹⁵

3. She worked as a Duchess of Brabant. ²⁰¹⁵

Maria married Hendrik II "de Edelmoedige" VAN BRABANT, son of Hendrik I VAN BRABANT and Mathilde DE BOULOGNE-ALSACE. (Hendrik II "de Edelmoedige" VAN BRABANT was born on 25 January 1207 in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium ²⁰¹¹, christened in Brabant-sur-Meuse, Meuse, Grand Est, France,²⁰¹¹ died on 1 February 1248 in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Flanders, Belgium ²⁰¹¹ and was buried in February 1248 in Villers-la-Ville, Walloon Brabant, Wallonia, Belgium ²⁰¹¹.)