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Henri of Brabant (d. 29 October 1349), Duke of Limburg and Lord of Mechelen in 1347. Died young and buried in Tervuren in 1349. Godfrey of Brabant (d. aft. 3 February 1352), Lord of Aarschot in 1346. Also died young and buried in Tervuren. John also had a son born from Maria van Huldenberg, who founded the House of Brant: John I Brant, 1st Lord ...
John IV, Duke of Brabant (11 June 1403 – 17 April 1427) was the son of Antoine of Burgundy, Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg and his first wife Jeanne of Saint-Pol. He was the second Brabantian ruler from the House of Valois. He is best known for founding the University of Louvain (Leuven) in 1425.
Father:John I, Duke of Brabant (1253–1294) Mother:Margaret of Flanders (1251 – 1285). Marriage parents: 1273; Accession:Duke of Brabant and Duke of Lothier and Limburg since 1294; Died:October 27, 1312 at Tervuren. He suffered from kidney stones. Buried:St Michael and Gudula Cathedral Brussels; Marriages Children
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The Duchy of Brabant, a state of the Holy Roman Empire, was established in 1183. It developed from the Landgraviate of Brabant of 1085–1183, and formed the heart of the historic Low Countries . The Duchy comprised part of the Burgundian Netherlands from 1430 and of the Habsburg Netherlands from 1482, until it was partitioned after the Dutch ...
history of Low Countries. …during the 13th century, while John I, Duke of Brabant, sought expansion toward the Rhine valley, which offered protection for the growing trade that moved from Cologne overland through Brabant. Duke John II, however, left such formidable debts that Brabant merchants were arrested abroad, which made them claim ...
The duke of Brabant at once invaded the Rhineland and laid siege to the castle of Woeringen near Bonn. Here he was attacked by the forces of the confederacy on the 5th of June 1288. After a bloody struggle John of Brabant, though at the head of far inferior numbers, was completely victorious. Limburg was henceforth attached to the duchy of Brabant.
The Story of Brabant lifts the lid on the key moments in the history of Brabant. Along the way, you encounter Roman conquerors, dukes of Brabant, iconoclasts and mercenaries. But also gentry from the Hague, pious priests, and successful entrepreneurs. It is a story of prehistoric farmers and their precarious existence.
