Matilda Of BOULOGNE

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• Also Known As: Countess of Boulogne

Matilda married Alfonso III King Of PORTUGAL in 1235 in France. Alfonso (son of Alfonso II The Fat King Of PORTUGAL and Urraca Of CASTILE) was born on 05 May 1210; died on 16 Feb 1279; was buried in Alcobaca. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Robert Of PORTUGAL was born in 1239; died in 1239.

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Reginald is also known as Lord of Dammartin, Count of Dammartin.

Reginald married Ida Of BOLOGNE. Ida (daughter of Matthew I Of ALSACE and Marie Of BLOIS) was born about 1161 in Boulogne, Pas-De-Calais, France; died in 1216. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Also Known As: Ida of Bologne

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• Fact: Count of Boulogne

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Matthew died ath the seige of Driencourt.

Matthew married Marie Of BLOIS in 1160. Marie (daughter of Stephen of BLOIS and Matilda Of BOULOGNE) was born about 1136 in Blois, Loir-Et-Cher, France; died between 1181 and 1182 in St Austrebert, Eure-Et-Loir, France; was buried in Nunnery of St Austrebert, Eure-Et-Loir, France. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Fact: Countess of Boulogne
• Fact: Princess of England, Countess of Mortain
• Fact: A Nun at Stratford
• Fact: Romsey; Prioress at Lillechurch, abbess of Rumsey
• Birth: 1131
• Death: 1180

Notes:

DeBrett's Kings and Queens of Britain by Williamson states "the marriage was annulled in 1169. In "Lives of the Princesses of England", Vol. I,pgs 196-212, Green writes how Mary was used as the political tool of Henry II of England to help secure his continental possessions: Mary's only brother William died, leaving her countess of Boulogne and Mortagne. The king, despite her vows, "then considered so sacred, which bound her to a life of perpetual virginity," had her taken from the monastery and married against her will to Matthew of Alsace. The nun found herself "the innocent object of execration to the whole Catholic world" and her marriage described as "execrable nuptials." Matthew was excommunicated; his bride was not indicating she was held faultless in the matter. Bologne was placed under an interdict, which was followed by "an interdict of fire and water, by which any one who assisted the earl in procuring even the ordinary necessaries of life was subjected to the same penalties as he himself had incurred." Eventually, her husband allowed Mary to return to the cloister, and in 1169 she entered the Benedictine nunnery of St. Austrebert near Montreuil, where she remained until her death 13 years later.