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Henri de BRABANT III
- Preferred Name: Henri de BRABANT III[1] [2] [3]
- Alternate Name: Hendrik van Brabant III
- Alternate Name: Henri de Brabant III
- Gender: M
- Burial: in Louvain,,Brabant Flamand,Flandre,BELGIQUE,église Notre-Dame des Dominicains at LATI: N0.8793 LONG: E0.7021 with note: GEDCOM data
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Duke of Brabant1248 with note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III,_Duke_of_Brabant
- FSID: LDZN-HVT
- http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Comte de Louvain
- Birth: 1233 in Brabant-sur-Meuse, Meuse, Lorraine, France at LATI: N9.2736 LONG: E0.3119
- Death: 7 MAR 1261 in Louvain,,Brabant Flamand,Flandre,BELGIQUE, at LATI: N0.8793 LONG: E0.7021 with note: GEDCOM data
- Notes:
=== Life Sketch ===
Henry III of Brabant (c. 1230-February 28, 1261, Leuven) was Duke of Brabant between 1248 and his death. He was the son of Henry II of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen.]
The disputed territory of Lothier, the former Duchy of Lower Lorraine, was assigned to him by the German King Alfonso X of Castile. Alfonso also appointed him Imperial Vicar to advance his claims on the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1251, he married Adelaide of Burgundy (c. 1233-October 23, 1273), daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy and Yolande de Dreux, by whom he had four children:
1.) Henry IV, Duke of Brabant (c. 1251-aft. 1272) Mentally handicapped, and made to abdicate in favor of his brother John on 24 May 1267.
2.) John I, Duke of Brabant (1253-1294) Married first to Marguerite of France, daughter of King Louis IX of France (Saint Louis) and his wife Margaret of Provence, and later to Margaret of Flanders, daughter of Guy, Count of Flanders and his first wife Mathilda of Béthune.
3.) Godfrey of Brabant, Lord of Aarschot (d. July 11, 1302, Kortrijk), killed at the Battle of the Golden Spurs, married 1277 Jeanne Isabeau de Vierzon (d. aft. 1296)
4.) Maria of Brabant (1256-January 12, 1321, Murel), married at Vincennes on August 27, 1274 to King Philip III of France.
He also had two illegitimate sons:
1.) John Lyngwood (+1289)
2.) Gilles, ancestor of the van der Balch family.
Composed several pieces of music, among them "Amors m'est u cuer entree" and "Se kascuns del monde savoit".
BIO
BIO: from http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRABANT,%20LOUVAIN.htm#HenriIIIBrabantdied1261B as of 7/23/2016
HENRI de Brabant, son of HENRI II Duke of Brabant & his first wife Marie of Germany [Hohenst
=== TABLEAUX GENEALOGIQUES DES SOUVERAINS DE ===
TABLEAUX GENEALOGIQUES DES SOUVERAINS DE LA FRANCE ET SEU GRANDS FEUDATAIRES (GS NUMBER 944 D22G) TAB 7; TABLETTES CHRONOLOGIQUES (GS NUMBER 944 D22T) VOL 1 P.150; BETHAMIS GENEALOGICAL TABLES (GS NUMBER Q929.2 B465G) TAB 572; SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.26; THE PLANTAGENET ANCESTRY (GS NUMBER Q940 D2T) P.6; STAMMETAEFELIN ZUR GESCHICITE DER EUROPAISCHEN STAATEN (GS NUMBER 940 D22L) VOL 2 TAB 15; ANCESTRAL FILE, LDS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY;
=== !Henry III, d. 1291, Duke of Brabant; m. ===
!Henry III, d. 1291, Duke of Brabant; m. Alix, d. 1273, dau. of Hugh IV, b. 1212, d. 1272, Duke of Burgundy and Yolande de Dreux, d. 1255, both of Capetian descent. ["60 Colonists" line 155-28.] !Henry III was Duke of Brabant.
=== !#552-v2-T12; ===
!#552-v2-T12;
=== ! Page 281 of "Dictionary of Royal Linea ===
! Page 281 of "Dictionary of Royal Lineage of Europe and other Countries", complied from offical records and other reconized authorities by C. M. Allstrom, Vol 1, Chicago, USA, 1902. This book is in the LDS Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah
=== per Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Cha ===
per Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants compiled by Marcellus Donald Alexander R. von Redlich vol 1 1986
=== ANCESTRAL ROOTS, by F. L. Weis, 7th Ed., ===
ANCESTRAL ROOTS, by F. L. Weis, 7th Ed., Line 155 #28, pg. 135: Henry III, d. 1291, Duke of Brabant; m. Alix, d. 1273, dau. of Hugh IV, b. 1212, d. 1272, Duke of Burgundy, and Yolande de Dreux, d. 1255, both of Capetian descent. (Garnier xxvii).
=== !BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Ste ===
!BIR-MAR-DEA: Bk, Medieval Knight by Stephen Turnbull.
=== W H Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry pp ===
W H Turton: The Plantagenet Ancestry pp 96, 104
=== TITLE: Duke of Brabant Eine Garantie fèu ===
TITLE: Duke of Brabant Eine Garantie fèur die Richtigkeit und Vollstèandigkeit der Angabenwirdnicht èubernommen. Berichtigungen, Anregungen und Hinweise sindjederzeitwillkommen.
=== '''Henri III " le Pacifique/le Débonnair ===
'''Henri III " le Pacifique/le Débonnaire," Duke of Brabant''' (d. 28Feb or 1 Mar 1261 Louvain).[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BURGUNDY.htm#AlixBourgognedied1273][http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRABANT,%20LOUVAIN.htm#HenriIIIBrabantdied1261][http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRABANT,%20LOUVAIN.htm#HenriIIIBrabantdied1261B]
==Parents==
* Father: Henri II, Duke of Brabant
* Mother: Marie of Germany [Hohenstaufen]
==Marriage==m (1251 after 21 Jul) '''Alix de Bourgogne [Capet]''' (1233 - 20 Oct 1273).[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRABANT,%20LOUVAIN.htm#_ftnref323][http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BURGUNDY.htm#AlixBourgognedied1273]Issue: 5
*Henri IV, Duke of Brabant (1251/2 Louvain - after 29 Apr 1272)
* Jean I "the victorious," Duke of Brabant (1253 Brussels - 3 May 1294Antwerp).
* Godefroi (d. 11 Jul 1302 Courtrai)
* Marie de Brabant (1260 Louvain - 12 Jan 1322 Murel near Meulan )[b. 1256, d. 12 Jan 1321.][see also:]
* Marcellus Donald R. von Redlich, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, volume I (1941; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland,U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002), page 56. Hereinafter cited as Pedigrees of Emperor Charlemagne, I.
* Marcellus Donald R. von Redlich, Pedigrees of Emperor Charlemagne, I, page 57.
*''The Peerage: Alix de Bourgogne.[http://thepeerage.com/p372.htm] accessed 31 August 2012''
*[[Wikipedia:fr: Aleyde de Brabant]]; [[Wikipedia: Adelaide of Burgundy, Duchess of Brabant]]
* (unproven) UNKNOWN.[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRABANT,%20LOUVAIN.htm#_ftnref339]
* (unproven) Gilles van der Balch.[http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BRABANT,%20LOUVAIN.htm#_ftnref339]
==Sources==
* '''Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson Vol. II page 30'''
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=== My PAF Notes ===
from thepeerage.com, 3/2009:
Henri III de Brabant, Duc de Brabant1
M, #106960, b. before 1235, d. 28 February 1260/61
Henri III de Brabant, Duc de Brabant|b. b 1235\nd. 28 Feb 1260/61|p10696.htm#i106960|Henri II, Duc de Brabant|b. c 1189\nd. 1 Feb 1247/48|p10686.htm#i106853|Marie von Hohenstaufen|b. 1201\nd. 1235|p11343.htm#i113421|Henri I. de Brabant, Duc de Brabant|b. c 1158\nd. 5 Sep 1235|p10678.htm#i106773|Matilda de Boulogne|b. c 1162\nd. c 1211|p10490.htm#i104896|Philip von Hohenstaufen, Duke of Swabia|b. 1176\nd. 1208|p11427.htm#i114270|Irene of Constantinople|b. c 1172\nd. 27 Aug 1208|p11428.htm#i114271|
Last Edited=20 Jun 2005
Consanguinity Index=0.03%
Henri III de Brabant, Duc de Brabant was born before 1235. He was the son of Henri II, Duc de Brabant and Marie von Hohenstaufen .2 He married Alix de Bourgogne , daughter of Hugues IV de Bourgogne, Duc de Bourgogne and Yolande de Dreux .2 He died on 28 February 1260/61.2
Henri III de Brabant, Duc de Brabant gained the title of Duc de Brabant in 1248.1
Children of Henri III de Brabant, Duc de Brabant and Alix de Bourgogne
Jean I de Brabant, Duc de Brabant + b. c 1251, d. 4 May 12943
Henri IV de Brabant, Duc de Brabant b. bt 1251 - 1252, d. a 29 Apr 1272
Marie de Brabant + b. 1256, d. 12 Jan 13211
Citations
[S11 ] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Family: A Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), page 85. Hereinafter cited as Britain's Royal Family.
[S45 ] Marcellus Donald R. von Redlich, Pedigrees of Some of the Emperor Charlemagne's Descendants, volume I (1941; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A.: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2002), page 56. Hereinafter cited as Pedigrees of Emperor Charlemagne, I.
[S45 ] Marcellus Donald R. von Redlich, Pedigrees of Emperor Charlemagne, I, page 57.
=== nommé le debonnaire, duc de brabant ===
nommé le debonnaire, duc de brabant
=== !SOURCE: "Royal Ancestors," PC #345. ===
!SOURCE: "Royal Ancestors," PC #345.
=== !AKA: Henry III, Duke of Brabant - Doc. ===
!AKA: Henry III, Duke of Brabant - Doc. Line 155-28 !DEATH: Date: 1291 - Doc. Line 155-28 !MARRIAGE: Henry III, Duke and Alix - Doc. Line 155-28
Preferred Parents:
Father: Henri de Brabant II, b. 10 SEP 1180 in Brabant-sur-Meuse, Meuse, Lorraine, France d. 1 FEB 1248 in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
Mother: Maria von Hohenstaufen, b. 3 APR 1201 in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy d. 29 MAR 1235 in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium
Family 1: Adelaide of Burgundy , b. 1233 in Bourgogne, France d. 23 OCT 1273 in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
- m. 21 JUL 1251 in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium
- Godfrey de Brabant , b. in Brussels, Belgium d. 11 JUL 1302 in Flanders, Belgium
- Jean de Brabant I, b. 3 APR 1252 in Leuven, Brabant, Belgium d. 3 MAY 1294 in Bar-le-Duc, Meuse, Lotharingen, Frankrijk
- Marie of Brabant Queen of France, b. 13 MAY 1254 in Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium d. 12 JAN 1322 in Les Mureaux, Seine-et-Oise, France
Sources:
- Title: Henry III, Duke of Brabant (1230-1261), Wikipedia
Author: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III,_Duke_of_Brabant
Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_III,_Duke_of_Brabant;
Note: Henry III of Brabant (c. 1230 – February 28, 1261, Leuven) was Duke of Brabant between 1248 and his death. He was the son of Henry II of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen.
In 1251, he married Adelaide of Burgundy (c. 1233 – October 23, 1273),[1] daughter of Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy and Yolande de Dreux, by whom he had four children. Buried Dominican Church, Leuven [nl]
- Title: Henri III de Brabant (1231-1261), "Find A Grave Index"
Author: "Find A Grave Index," database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL7-RFWK : 13 September 2020), Henri III de Brabant, ; Burial, Leuven, Arrondissement Leuven, Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant), Belgium, Notre-Dame des Dominicains; citing record ID 92416400, Find a Grave, http://www.findagrave.com.
Publication: Name: https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVL7-RFWK;
Note: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92416400/henri_iii-de_brabant
Henri III de Brabant
BIRTH 1231
DEATH 28 Feb 1261 (aged 29–30)
BURIAL Notre-Dame des Dominicains
Leuven, Arrondissement Leuven, Flemish Brabant (Vlaams-Brabant), Belgium
MEMORIAL ID 92416400
Nobility, only son of Henri II and his first wife Maria of Hohenstaufen. He succeeded his father as Duke de Brabant in 1248. He married Alix de Bourgogne in 1251 who bore him four children.
- Title: Wikipedia
Author: Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. online [http://en.wikipedia.org], , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_I,_Landgrave_of_Hesse.
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