Margaret of Brabant (9 February 1323 – 1380) was
Countess of Flanders
The count of Flanders was the ruler or sub-ruler of the county of Flanders, beginning in the 9th century. Later, the title would be held for a time, by the rulers of the Holy Roman Empire and Spain. During the French Revolution, in 1790, the co ...
by marriage. She was the second daughter of Duke
John III of Brabant
John III ( nl, Jan; 1300 – 5 December 1355) was Duke of Brabant, Lothier (1312–1355) and Limburg (1312–1347 then 1349–1355). He was the son of John II, Duke of Brabant, and Margaret of England.
John and the towns of Brabant
The early fo ...
and
Mary of Évreux. She was the only child of Duke John to have children. In 1347 she married
Louis II of Flanders, who was then sixteen years old and already count of Flanders. On 13 April 1350 their daughter,
Margaret III, Countess of Flanders, was baptized. Through this daughter, their only surviving child, Brabant came under the influence of Burgundy when she married
Philip the Bold.
On 26 September 1371, Margaret and her mother-in-law, Margaret of France, countess of Artois, with their attendants, were guests of Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy for supper in Lens. Soon afterwards, Margaret left Flanders and went to reside permanently, far from her husband, in the county of Réthel, where she died in April 1380 (after Easter).
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1323 births
1380 deaths
House of Reginar
Countesses of Flanders
14th-century women from the county of Flanders