Countess of Flanders & Hainault Margaret of Flanders 
Margaret was born on June 2nd, 1202 in Valenciennes, Nord, France.1 Margaret's father was Count Baldwin of Hainault VI and her mother was Marie de Champagne. Her paternal grandparents were Count Baldwin (The Brave) of Hainault V and Marguerite of Upper Lorraine; her maternal grandparents were Henri (The Liberal) de Champagne I and Princess, Countess of Champagne Marie of France. She was an only child. She died at the age of 76 on February 10th, 1279. She was buried in Flines-Laes-Mortagne, Nord, France.1 2 General Notes
Notes from http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Margaret_II_of_Flanders
Margaret II of Flanders (1202-1278 ) was countess of Flanders from 1244 to 1278 and countess of Hainaut from 1244 to 1246
She was the younger daughter of Baldwin I of Constantinople , who was also count of Flanders and Hainaut , and Marie of Champagne . He left on the Fourth Crusade before she was born, and her mother left two years later, leaving Margaret and her older sister Jeanne in the guardianship of their uncle Philip of Namur.
After her mother died in 1204 , and her father the next year, the now-orphaned Margaret and her sister remained under Philip's guardianship until 1208 , when he gave their wardship to King Philip II of France .
In 1212 Margaret married Bouchard d'Avesnes, a prominent Hainaut nobleman. This was apparently a love match, though it was approved by Margaret's sister Jeanne, who had herself recently married. The two sisters subsequently had a falling out over Margaret's share of their inheritance, which led Jeanne to attempt to get Margaret's marriage dissolved. She alleged that the marriage was invalid, and without much inspection of the facts of the case Pope Innocent III condemned the marriage, though he did not formally annul it.
Bourchard and Margaret continued as a married couple, having 2 children, as their conflict with Jeanne grew violent and Bouchard was captured and imprisoned in 1219 . He was released in 1221 on the condition that the couple separate and that Bouchard get absolution from the pope. While he was in Rome, Jeanne convinced Margaret to re-marry, this time to William of Dampierre , a nobleman from Champagne.
This situation caused something of a scandal, for the marriage was possibly bigamous , and violated the church's strictures on consangunity as well. The disputes regarding the validity of the 2 marriages and the legitimacy of her children by each husband continued for decades, becoming entangled in the politics of the Holy Roman Empire .
In 1246 king Louis IX of France , acting as an arbitrator, gave the right to inherit Flanders to the Dampierre children, and the rights to Hainaut to the Avesnes children. This would seem to have settled the matter, but in 1253 problems arose again. The eldest son, John d'Avesnes was uneasy about his rights, convinced William II, Count of Holland to seize Hainaut and the parts of Flanders which were within the bounds of the empire. William of Holland was, as emperor-elect, overlord for these territories, and also John's brother-in-law. A civil war followed, which ended when the Avesnes forces defeated and imprisoned the Dampierres at the Battle of Walcheren .
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.1056 in Flanders, Belgium d.1098
- b.1087 d.1120
- b.1065
- b.1108 in Mons, Hainault, Belgium d.13 Nov 1172
- b.1055 in Wassenberg, Rheinland, Prussia d.24 Oct 1129
- b.1089 in Wassenburg, Rhineland, Prussia d.1127
- b.1048 d.1129
- b.1150 in Hainault, Belgium d.22 Dec 1196
- b.1030 d.22 Jun 1102
- b.1067 in Namur, France d.19 Aug 1139 in Namur, France
- b.1110 in Namur, Wallonia, Belgium d.Jul 1169
- b.1030
- b.1075 in Trier, Rhineland, Germany d.24 Jun 1143
- b.1048 d.1129
- b.Jul 1171 in Valencienes, France d.11 Jun 1205
- b.1024 d.18 Jan 1071
- b.1060 in Lorraine, France d.23 Jan 1115 in Chatenois
- b.1030 d.1074
- b.1101 in Alsace, France d.22 Jan 1169
- b.1035 d.17 Aug 1094
- b.1070 d.1120
- b.1028 in Schweinfurt, Unterfranken, Bavaria d.04 Aug 1113
- b.1135 in Alsace, France d.20 Nov 1195
- b.1033 in Anjou, France d.14 Apr 1109 in Anjou, France
- b.1093 in Anjou, France d.10 Nov 1143 in Jerusalem
- b.1060 in Montfort, France d.14 Feb 1116 in Fontrevault, France
- b.1115 in Château d'Angers, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France d.1165 in Bethlehem, Palestine
- b.1060 in Maine, France d.11 Jun 1110 in LeMans, Vienne, Poitou, France
- b.1096 in Maine, France d.1126 in Maine, France
- b.1080 d.08 Feb 1100
- b.02 Jun 1202 in Valenciennes, Nord, France d.10 Feb 1279
- b.1012 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.Sep 1089 in Epernay, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France
- b.1045 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.19 May 1102 in Ramula, Holy Land
- b.1019 in Le Mans, Sarthe, Maine, Pays-de-la-Loire, France d.1090
- b.1090 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.1152 in Lagny-sur-Marne, Ile-de-France, France
- b.14 Oct 1024 in Falaise, Normandie, France d.10 Sep 1087 in Hermenbraville, Rouen, Normandie
- b.1062 d.08 Mar 1136 in Marcigny-sur-Loire, France
- b.1031 in Flanders, France d.02 Nov 1083 in Caen, Calvados, France
- b.1126 in Champagne, France d.16 Mar 1180
- b.1055 d.13 Feb 1097
- b.1075 in Karnten, Austria d.13 Apr 1141
- b.1075 d.1112
- b.1102 in Karnten, Austria d.13 Dec 1161
- b.1050 d.08 Jan 1100
- b.1085 in Sulzbach, Ambert, Oberpfalz, Bavaria d.13 Sep 1141 in Seon
- b.1050 d.1112
- b.1174 d.09 Aug 1204
- b.23 May 1052 in Reims, Champagen, France d.29 Jul 1108 in Melun, Isle De France
- b.1081 in France d.01 Aug 1137 in Chateau De Baethizy, Paris, Isle De France
- b.1054 in Vlaaringen, Netherlands d.1093 in Montreuil-sur-Loire, France
- b.1119 in Reims, Champagne, France d.18 Sep 1180 in Paris, France
- b.1062 in Savoy, France d.23 Sep 1104
- b.1092 in Savoy, France d.18 Nov 1154
- b.1070 in Savoy, France d.1153
- b.1145 in France d.Mar 1196
- b.1045 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.19 May 1102 in Ramula, Holy Land
- b.1090 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.1152 in Lagny-sur-Marne, Ile-de-France, France
- b.1062 d.08 Mar 1136 in Marcigny-sur-Loire, France
- b.1140 in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, Centre, France d.1206
- b.1075 in Karnten, Austria d.13 Apr 1141
- b.1102 in Karnten, Austria d.13 Dec 1161
- b.1085 in Sulzbach, Ambert, Oberpfalz, Bavaria d.13 Sep 1141 in Seon
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Details of Margaret's family with Seigneur Guillaume de Dampierre II
Details of Margaret's family with Bouchard d'Avesnes
1 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=bevangenealogy&id=I10528
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I23049&style=TABLE
2 http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=PED&db=jdp-fam&id=I23049&style=TABLE
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