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John II, Duke of Brabant

13th and 14th-century duke of Brabant

Field	Value
name	John II
title	Duke of Brabant
Duke of Lothier
Duke of Limburg	CoA=	tenure=	spouse =
issue	John III, Duke of Brabant
house	House of Reginar
father	John I, Duke of Brabant
mother	Margaret of Flanders
predecessor		successor=	birth_date = 27 September 1275
death_date
death_place	Tervuren
burial_place	Brussels Cathedral

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John II (27 September 1275 – 27 October 1312), also called John the Peaceful, was Duke of Brabant, Lothier and Limburg (1294–1312). He was the son of John I of Brabant and Margaret of Flanders.

John II succeeded his father in 1294 During the reign of John II, Brabant continued supporting a coalition to stop French expansion. He tried to conquer South Holland (district of medieval Holland) from the pro-French Count John II of Holland, but was not successful.

In 1309, the Crusade of the Poor besieged the castle of Genappe in Brabant because it was sheltering Jews. John sent an army that defeated the Crusaders, who incurred heavy losses. According to Chris Harman (2000), during different parts of the XIV century several attacks on Jewish merchants and Christian priests took place, and also awhich, typically, masses of people would march from town to town, looting and being joined by others during their march. Harman quotes the following:

John, who suffered from kidney stones and wanted his duchy to be peacefully handed over to his son upon his death, in 1312 signed the famous Charter of Kortenberg. John died in Tervuren in 1312. He was buried in the Church of St. Michael and St. Gudula (now Brussels' cathedral).

Family

On 8 July 1290, John married Margaret of England in Westminster Abbey, London. She was a daughter of King Edward I of England and his first wife, Eleanor of Castile. Only one child was born out of this marriage:

John III, Duke of Brabant.

John II had several illegitimate children:

Jan van Corsselaer, was later named Lord of Witthem, Wailwilre, Machelen, la Rochette and Colonster.
Jan van Wyvliet. Lord of Blaesveld and Kuyc. Married to Margaret Pipenpoy.
Jan Cordeken: Founder of the House of Glymes. He was legitimized by the emperor Louis IV by charter dated of 27 August 1344, lists John II as the father and Elisabeth Gortygin as his mother.
Jan Magermann. Married to Adelise d'Elsies.
Jan II van Dongelberg (- 1383). His mother was Marguerite van Pamel.

References

Sources

Harman, C. (2000). A People's History of the World. Verso Books: London.

References

''[[Balduini Ninovensis Chronicon]]'' 1294, MGH SS XXV, p. 546.
Gábor Bradács, "Crusade of the Poor (1309)", in Jeffrey M. Shaw and Timothy J. Demy (eds.), ''War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict'', 3 vols. (ABC-CLIO, 2017), vol. 1, pp. 211–12.
Oude Kronik van Brabant, p. 72.
Butkens (1724), Vol. I, Preuves, p. 145, "Extraict des registres de la ville de Malines".
Butkens (1724), Vol. I, Preuves, p. 144, "Extraict des registres de la ville de Malines".
Butkens (1724), Vol. I, Preuves, p. 146, "Extraicts des chartes de la maison de Berges sur Soom".

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