Ferdinand ( Portuguese: ''Fernando'',

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and Dutch: ''Ferrand''; 24 March 1188 – 27 July 1233) reigned as ''

jure uxoris ''Jure uxoris'' (a Latin phrase meaning "by right of (his) wife"), citing . describes a title of nobility used by a man because his wife holds the office or title '' suo jure'' ("in her own right"). Similarly, the husband of an heiress could beco ...

'' Count of Flanders and Hainaut from his marriage to Countess Joan, celebrated in

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in 1212, until his death. He was born in

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, and he was an Infante of Portugal as the fourth son of King Sancho I of Portugal and

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. While on their way to

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, Ferdinand and Joan were captured by Joan's first cousin Louis, eldest son of

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and Joan's aunt Isabella. Louis' aim was to acquire his dead mother's dowry, a large piece of Flemish territory including Artois, which Joan's father had taken back by force after Isabella's death. Released after this concession, Joan and Ferdinand soon joined the old allies of her father, King

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and Emperor Otto IV, in an alliance against France. They were decisively defeated at

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in July 1214, where Ferdinand was taken prisoner. Ferrand van Vlaanderen 001

Ferdinand was to remain in French hands for the next 12 years, while Joan ruled alone. He was released in 1226, by the French

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, Blanche of Castile, after the accession of her son Louis IX of France. Ferdinand died in Noyon on 27 July 1233. His and Joan's only child, a daughter named Maria, died childless, and their counties eventually passed to Joan's younger sister, Margaret II.

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