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Yet another quirk of fate intervened: Beatrice of Swabia died less than three weeks after her wedding, on the 19th day, to be exact. Several Hohenstaufen loyalists had recently come over to support Otto IV against Frederick Hohenstaufen because of his marriage with Beatrice. Within a short period
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in 1209. Duke Henry of Brabant now hastened to reconcile with the Welf ruler, renewing the prospect of his daughter marrying Otto, but once again, this did not happen. Soon after his coronation, Otto IV steered into conflict with the Pope over the
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in December 1212, Frederick's rise continued unabated and Otto was under increasing pressure. The previous engagement with Maria of Brabant once again became politically significant. Otto and Maria of Brabant got married on 19 May 1214 in
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Otto was effectively deposed on 5 July 1215 and Frederick again crowned King of Germany on 25 July, unopposed this time. Pope Innocent III, who had previously crowned Otto, acknowledged Frederick's rule as emperor-to-be during the
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standard to Frederick. With his forces decimated and having lost supporters to both death and defection, Otto was forced to withdraw to his Welf estates around
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Maria survived her second husband by thirty-eight years, but never remarried. In her later years, she again adopted the title of empress, establishing a
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Maria was betrothed to King Otto IV already in 1198, when she was only about eight years old. This happened while he was fighting for the
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after her death, many of them transferred their allegiance back to Frederick II. Crowned king by Archbishop
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Matters changed again in 1208, when Philip of Swabia was assassinated and Otto IV became undisputed
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in November. Maria joined her husband in his retirement. Resigned and seriously ill, Otto died at
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Maria remained a widow for about two years. In July 1220 she married her second husband Count
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by his former ally, Pope Innocent. In September 1211, Otto was faced with the
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Her profile in the "Our Family History" project by Robert Brian Stewart
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Marriage of Maria and Otto IV, from a 15th-century manuscript of the
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castle on 19 May 1218. There were no children from their marriage.
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and forced to retreat. King Philip II sent the captured Imperial
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side, and the planned marriage seemed to have been cancelled.
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from 1214 until 1215 as the second and last wife of the
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Holy Roman Empress
St. Peter's Church, Leuven
Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor
William I, Count of Holland
House
Reginar
Henry I, Duke of Brabant
Maud of Boulogne
House of Reginar
Holy Roman Empress
Welf
Otto IV
Henry I of Brabant
Maud of Boulogne
German throne
Philip of Swabia
Hohenstaufen

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