Elizabeth of Rhuddlan was born on 7 August 1282 as the daughter of King Edward I of England and Eleanor of Castile. During her early years, Elizabeth was in the company of her mother, and she was with her mother when her brother, the future King Edward II, was born. They became very close. She [read more]
Beatrice of Flanders was born in Bruges circa 1253/1254 as the daughter of Guy of Dampierre, Count of Flanders and his first wife Matilda of Béthune. She had seven full siblings and eight half-siblings – from her father’s second marriage to Isabelle of Luxembourg. Beatrice married the 14-year-old Floris V, Count of Holland in 1269. [read more]
Matilda of Brabant, the sister of Marie – who was also her predecessor as Countess of Holland, was born around 1200 as the daughter of Matilda of Boulogne and Henry I, Duke of Brabant. She was still quite young when she married Henry II, Count Palatine of the Rhine in Aachen in 1212. She was [read more]
Marie of Brabant was born circa 1190 as the eldest daughter of Henry I, Duke of Brabant and Maud of Boulogne. For a long time, she was the eldest of four daughters, and so it would seem that she might one day succeed her father as Duchess of Brabant, making her quite the catch. A [read more]
Adelaide was born as the daughter of Otto I, Count of Guelders and Ricardis of Bavaria. We know next to nothing about her youth, and we don’t know the year she was born. She first appeared in contemporary records when she married William I, Count of Holland. William was the younger brother of Dirk VII, [read more]
Adelaide of Cleves was born on an unknown date as the daughter of Dietrich II, Count of Cleves and Adelaide of Sulzbach. We know nothing about her youth and upbringing. She had two brothers and a sister. We know that she married the future Dirk VII, Count of Holland in 1186 and he succeeded his [read more]
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