Maria, Duchess of Brabant

Maria, Duchess of Brabant, born 1415, died 1467 was daughter of Charles I, King of Normandy and Yolande of Aragon. In 1427 she married Philip I, Duke of Brabant who commanded the Burgundian forces occupying Paris in 1419 during the Hundred Years War.

Because the marriage produced no children, his death in 1430 placed Brabant in the hands of his cousin Philip the Good, the next heir, whilst Saint-Pol and Ligny went to his great-aunt Joan, by proximity of blood. Maria returned to Normandy, until she remarried in 1431 with Francis I, Earl of Montfort.

Francis and Maria had one son and two daughters:


 * Richard, Earl of Montfort (1435-1472)
 * Margaret of Montfort (1443–1469)
 * Marie of Monfort (1444–1506), married John II, Viscount of Rohan and Count of Porhoët.