5909700.
Count John II de d’Avesnes & 5909701. Philippa of Luxembourg
1247, “Jean de Holland” born in Hainaut, s/o 11819400. Count John of Avenes &
11819401. Aleide of Holland.
12/24/1257, John’s father died in Valenciennes [200 km north
of Paris].
1252, Philippa born in Luxembourg, d/o 11819402. Henri V, Comte de Luxembourg & 11819403. Marguerite de
Bar le Duc.
~1270, John married Philippa.
1278, John became Count of Hainaut on the death of his
grandmother Margaret.
1280, Jean d’Avesnes, to affirm his rights as count of
Flanders [Zeeland], exhumed his father’s corpse, which he paraded through
various towns. [He then had both parents
reinterred in a new funeral monument displaying their armorial shields
in the Dominican church in Valenciennes.]
4/9/1284, John’s mother died.
6/5/1288, Philippa’s older 2 brothers and a younger
half-brother killed at the battle of Worringen.
1299, John united Holland [city of Amsterdam], Zeeland [city
of Antwerp], and Hainaut [city of Valenciennes] when John I, s/o Count Floris V
of Holland [his maternal nephew], and Wolfert van Borselen of Zeeland died
within a few months of each other. [“Iohannes comes Hannoniensis filius
Adelheydis sororis Wilhelmi regis.”]
1301, John defeated an invasion of Amstelland by Bishop
William of Utrecht, who was killed in the battle. John’s brother Guy became
Bishop of Utrecht.
8/22/1304, “Jan d’Avesnes”, Count of Hainaut, died in Valenciennes,
France.
4/6/1311, Philippa died. (S) The Princely Court, Male, 2004,
P128.
(S) Medieval France, An Encyclopedia, 1995, P87.
Children of John and
Philippa:
i. Alice of Hainault,
born ? in Holland.
Alice married Roger Bigod, 7th Earl of Norfolk,
Marshall of England, s/o Hugh. [He had previously married Aline Basset.]
10/26/1317, Alicia died.
ii. Jean III of
Hainault, born ? in Holland.
7/11/1302, John slain at the battle of Courtrai; brother
Henri the heir apparent.
iii. Henri of
Hainault, born ? in Holland.
1303, Henri died.
iv. William of
Hainaut (2954850), born 1286 in Holland.
v. John of Beaumont,
born ? in Holland.
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