Mahaut of Châtillon

Mahaut of Châtillon (1293– 3 October 1358) was the daughter of Guy IV of Châtillon and Marie of Brittany.

Mahaut of Châtillon
Born1293
Died(1358-10-03)3 October 1358
Noble familyChâtillon
Spouse(s)
(m. 1308; died 1325)
Issue
FatherGuy III of Châtillon
MotherMarie of Brittany

Marriage

In 1308 she married Charles of Valois,[1] the son of Philip III of France and Isabella of Aragon. He was also the brother of Philip IV of France. Charles himself had married twice before; upon the death of his second wife Catherine I of Courtenay in 1308, he married Mahaut. Mahaut and Charles had four children. One of their daughters would make them ancestors of French Kings, and another daughter would become Queen of Germany.

Mahaut and Charles's children were:

Her husband Charles died in 1325. Mahaut died 33 years later in 1358 at the age of 65, having outlived three of her four children; only her daughter Isabella outlived her.

Ancestors

References

  1. The Cultural Context of the French Prose "remaniement" of the Life of Edward the Confessor by a nun of Barking Abbey, Delbert W. Russell, Language and Culture in Medieval Britain: The French of England, C.1100-c.1500, ed. Jocelyn Wogan-Browne, (Boydell & Brewer, 2013), 299.


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