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  Duke of Brabant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Duchy of Brabant was formally erected in 1183/1184.
Godfrey I (1106–1139); appointed as Duke in 1106.
In the modern Kingdom of Belgium, the revived courtesy title of "Duke of Brabant" is traditionally assigned to the Crown Prince, in spite of the fact that the province of Noord-Brabant, part of the historical duchy, is now part of the Netherlands.
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 JOHN, THE FEARLESS, DUKE OF BURGUNDY - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN, THE FEARLESS, DUKE OF BURGUNDY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Limburg was henceforth attached to the duchy of Brabant.
JOHN (1371-1419), called the Fearless (Sans Peur), duke of Jurgundy, son of Philip the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and Mar-;aret of Flanders, was born at Dijon on the 28th of May 1371.
By the peace of Chartres (March 9, 1409) the king absolved him from the crime, and Valentina Visconti, the widow of the murdered duke, and her children pledged themselves to a reconciliation; while an edict of the 2yth of December 1409 gave John the guardianship of the dauphin.
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 Antoine, Duke of Brabant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Antoine of Burgundy (August 1384 – October 25, 1415, in the battle of Agincourt), was Duke of Brabant and Limburg and Margrave of Antwerp.
Anthony was the son of Philip II, Duke of Burgundy and Margaret III of Flanders, and brother of John the Fearless.
The Duke of Brabant arrived late to the Battle of Agincourt, and in his eagerness to reach the field, he dressed in improvised armour and wore a surcoat made from a trumpeter's flag.
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 The Bailey Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Henri I Duke Of BRABANT was born in 1165 in Brabant, Belgium.
Marguerite Princess Of BRABANT [COUNTESS OF GUELDERS] was born in 1192 in Brabant, Belgium.
Marie Princess Of BRABANT was born in 1190 in Brabant, Belgium.
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 26TH GENERATION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Henry I Duke of Brabant was born in 1158.
Mathilda "Maud" of Flanders was born in 1162.
Henry II, Duke of Brabant was born in 1189.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg139 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henri I Duke Of BRABANT [Parents] was born in 1165 in Of, Brabant, Holy Roman Empire.
Godfrey III Duke Of LORRAINE was born in 1142 in Brabant, Belgium>.
Henri I Duke Of BRABANT was born in 1165.
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 Wikinfo | Duke   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In the United Kingdom, the current royal dukes are HRH the Prince of Wales, who is Duke of Cornwall and Duke of Rothesay; HRH the Duke of Edinburgh (Prince Philip), HRH the Duke of York (Prince Andrew), HRH the Duke of Gloucester (Prince Richard), and HRH the Duke of Kent (Prince Edward).
For example, when the current Duke of Gloucester and Duke of Kent are succeeded by their eldest sons, the Earl of Ulster and the Earl of St. Andrews, respectively, those peerages (or rather, the 1928 and 1934 creations of them) will cease to be associated with royalty.
The heir apparent to the Belgian throne is styled Duke of Brabant.
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 Mont-Saint-Guibert (Municipality, Province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The municipality of Mont-Saint-Guibert (1,864 hectares) was constituted in 1977 by the merging of the former municipalities of Corbais, Hévillers and Mont-Saint-Guibert.
The dukes of Brabant made of Mont-Saint-Guibert a chefmayerie, with a territory spreading from Wavre to Gembloux and from Noirhat to Tourinnes-Saint-Lambert, and a fair was set up in the village.
The village was trashed in 1185 by the troops of Count of Namur and Count of Hainaut, in 1332 by the princes allied against Duke of Brabant Jean III, and in 1489 during the revolt of Brabant against Maximilian of Austria.
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 AllRefer.com - Brabant, duchy of (Benelux History) - Encyclopedia
Brabant, duchy of, former duchy, divided between Belgium (Brabant and Antwerp provs.) and the Netherlands (North Brabant prov.).
The duchy of Brabant emerged (1190) from the duchy of Lower Lorraine.
The dukes of Brabant, who relied on the towns to finance their wars and luxurious lifestyles, granted them virtual self-government and an ever-increasing share in the management of the duchy.
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 John II, Duke of Brabant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jan II van Brabant (September 27, 1275 – October 27, 1312, Tervuren), also called John II, the Peaceful, was Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1294–1312).
He was the son of John I of Brabant and Margaretha of Flanders, daughter of Guy, Count of Flanders.
She was a daughter of King Edward I of England and his first Queen consort Eleanor of Castile.
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 North Brabant Province (The Netherlands)
During the Dutch Republic the Staten of Brabant continued the lion as arms of Brabant.
In the Middle Ages, it was occupied by Salic Franks, and was first a part of Austrasia, later of Lorraine, and since the 10th century, it formed the county of Leuven, which became the duchy of Brabant in the 12th century.
As to the colours of the arms, in 1234 in a Crusade against the Stedingen in East-Frisia, Henry I supposedly used a fl flag, with on the one side the Holy Mary in an aureole, and on the other side a lion or, tongued and nailed gules.
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 Britannia Biographies: Henry Plantagenet of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster
In this document the accusation of Duke Henry is declared to be false, and he is invited to prove it, corps-à-corps, in the castle of Guisnes, at St. Omer, or wherever else the King of France should think fit to appoint.
The second and only surviving daughter and heir of the Duke was, therefore, Blanche (aged 14 at the death of her father) who became the consort of Prince John of Gaunt, Earl of Richmond (afterwards Duke of Lancaster).
The Duke made his will in his castle at Leicester on 15th March 1361; and, dying of the pestilence on 24th of the same month, was interred in the Collegiate Church in Newark (Notts), on the north side of the high altar, in pursuance of the directions of his will.
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 Selected Families/Individuals - pafg112 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henri II Duke of Brabant [Parents] was born about 1207 in Brabant, France.
Henri II Duke of Brabant was born in 1165 in Of Brabant, Flandres, Holy Roman Empire.
Phillipp II King of Germany was born in 1176 in Of Swabia, Germany.
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 Leopold II
Leopold II, King of the Belgians, son of Leopold I, was born at Brussels on the 9th of April 1835.
In 1846 he was created Duke of Brabant and appointed a sub-lieutenant in the army, in which he served until his accession, by which time he had reached the rank of lieutenant-general.
While still Duke of Brabant he had been the first to call the attention of the Belgians to the need of enlarging their horizon beyond sea, and after his accession to the throne he gave the first impulse towards the development of this idea by founding in 1876 the Association Internationale Africaine.
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 Monarchie - Duke of Brabant
The title of "Duke of Brabant" was granted for the first time in the Belgian dynasty to Prince Leopold, eldest son of King Leopold I.
After King Albert I was sworn in, it was decided that the title of "Duke of Brabant" would henceforth be given to the King's eldest son, or if he had no son, by the eldest grandson of the Sovereign.
In 1993, after King Albert II was sworn in as the sixth King of the Belgians, it was his eldest son, Prince Philippe, who was given the title of "Duke of Brabant".
www.monarchie.be /en/monarchy/history/brabant.html   (206 words)

  
 Albert II dari Belgia - Wikipedia
She is the daughter of Principe Don Fulco Ruffo di Calabria, Duca di Guardia Lombarda and his wife, Donna Luisa Gazelli.
Philippe Léopold Louis Marie, Duke of Brabant (born April 15, 1960).
He married, on December 4, 1999, Jonkvrouwe Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz, who was created HRH Princess Mathilde of Belgium a month before their marriage.
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 Henri I Duke of Brabant (1165-1235)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Marle of Brabant born 1188 , Belgium> died 21 January 1253
Adelaide (Alix) of Brabant born 1194 , Belgium>
*Hendrik II "the Courageous" "the Magnanimous" Duke of Brabant and Lorraine
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 JOHN I., DUKE OF BRABANT AND LORRAINE - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN I., DUKE OF BRABANT AND LORRAINE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
His first business was to curtail the overgrown power of his aristocracy; noteworthy incidents in the contest were the execution (1483) of the duke of Braganza for correspondence with Castile, and the murder, by the king's own hand, of the youthful duke of Viseu for conspiracy.
(1603-1656), the Fortunate, king of Portugal, was born at Villaviciosa in March 1603, succeeded to the dukedom of Braganza in 1630, and married Luisa de Guzman, eldest daughter of the duke of Medina Sidonia, in 1633.
By the unanimous voice of the people he was raised to the throne of Portugal (of which he was held to be the legitimate heir) at the revolution effected in December 1640 against the Spanish king, Philip IV.
www.1911ency.org /J/JO/JOHN_I_DUKE_OF_BRABANT_AND_LORRAINE.htm   (1964 words)

  
 Velle Inventory - Special Collections NEHA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Letter by the Duke of Burgundy to Louvain, Brussels and Antwerp concerning the situation of his cousin, the Duke of Brabant [Philippe de St. Pol].
Convocation by the Duke on request of Bois-le Duc to assent to letters of arrest against subjects of the Duke of Lunenburg because of seizures from their burghers, and a punishment on request of Jan van Hoerne, Lord of Puurs and Duffel (15th century).
Draft by deputies of the Cities of Antwerp and Brussels in Walem against a meeting of the States of Brabant because of a difference between Louvain and the Nobility (15th century).
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 Baarle Nassau and Baarle Hertog
Godfried thereby acknowledged the Duke as the proprietor, and this caused the Count of Holland to declare in 1203 that he renounced his rights on the territory.
To express his gratefulness towards Godfried, the Duke of Brabant added large sections of forest and tourbières (dried swamp with a deposit you can burn) to the property he had on loan, territory previously not belonging to Godfried.
Dating from that moment, a difference was born between those parts of Baarle under the Duke of Brabant, and those parts of Baarle (and Heerle, Wernhout, etc.) under the Lordship of Breda.
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 My Family
Henri I (Duke of Brabant) died in 1235.
Henry I (Duke of Brabant) died in 1235.
William I (Duke of Normandy, King of England) and Mathilde of Flanders.
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 Brabant -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Duchy of Brabant: territory covering approximately the present Dutch province North Brabant, the three Belgian provinces Antwerp, Walloon Brabant and Flemish Brabant, and the Brussels-Capital Region.
The province of Brabant in Belgium, which has now been split up in Flemish Brabant and Walloon Brabant.
Along the international border between the Netherlands and Belgium there are a few enclaves and exclaves, as relicts of the old duchy of Brabant: the municipalities Baarle-Hertog (Belgium) and Baarle-Nassau (Netherlands).
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 Walter Scott and his English Predecesessors
She refuses him, marries the Duke of Touraine instead, but is forced to accept a second proposal from the Brabantian after her husband's death.
To save the Duke of Gloucester from having to fight the Duke of Brabant personally, she agrees to accept Pope Martin's judgement, who tells her to return to the Duke of Brabant; she refuses that, but leaves Gloucester and finally dies shortly after in England.
Henry V tries to get an exemption from Pope Benedict not because a marriage between Jaquelina and the Duke of Gloucester would be politically convenient, but because he likes her personally very much, as does his wife, and he would fulfil her every wish.
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 Royal Family of Europe - pafg128 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Friedrich V Ludwig Wilhelm Landgrave Of HESSE-HOMBURG was born on 30 Jan 1748.
Henri III Duke Of BRABANT was born about 1233.
Karl August, Grand Duke Of SAXE was born on 3 Sep 1757.
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 Heraldry in Belgium
The current king of Belgium is Albert II (born 6-6-1934), brother of the late king Baudoin I and formerly prince of Liége.
1960), duke of Brabant, Astrid (born 1962, married to archduke Lorenz of Habsburg-Lorraine), and Laurent (born 1963).
The eldest son of the sovereign is titled duke of Brabant, his eldest son is titled count of Hainault.
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 Londerzeel (Municipality, Province of Flemish Brabant, Belgium)
Malderen was shared by the Duke of Brabant and the Berthout, lords of Grimbergen.
The Brabant horse stems from the Flemish horse, originally bred in the maritime plains of Flanders.
The golden age of the Brabant horse was the period 1880-1950, when it was widely used in agriculture.
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 Rea Genealogy - pafg173 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Henry II of Brabant, Duke of Brabant was born about 1207.
Godfrey III of Brabant, Duke of Brabant [Parents].
Henry I of Brabant, Duke of Brabant was born about 1158.
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 Wavre (Municipality, Province of Walloon Brabant, Belgium)
Wavre was mentioned in 1050 as a village in the pagus (former Roman administrative division, later pays) of Brabant, as an rural domain belonging to the Count of Leuven.
In 1222, the burghers of Wavre, supported by their lord, were granted by Duke of Brabant Henri I a chart, and gained therefore political autonomy and trade privileges.
Wavre then supported the revolt of the States of Brabant against Maximilian of Austria and was trashed on 8 March 1489 by the Duke of Saxony.
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