ROYAL FAMILY TREE

Tracing the family history of the English and Scottish Royal Family back over 1000 years

Louis II
1330 - 1384

Louis II
  • Born Wed, 25 October 1330
  • Maele Castle, Male
  • Died Fri, 30 January 1384
  • Saint-Omer
  • Buried
  • Collegiate Church of Saint-Pierre, Lille
Details
  • Count of Flanders
  • Louis of Male
  • Lived 53 years, 3 months, 5 days

Becoming count after his father was killed at the Battle of Crécy, he broke with his father’s pro-French policies to adopt a stance closer to his subjects, skillfully navigating between the conflicting interests of the kings of France and England, who were in open war.

Family

Wife

Margaret of Brabant
  • Margaret of Brabant
  • 1323 - 1380
  • Married Tuesday, 6 June 1347
  • Groom was 16 Bride was 24
  • Marriage lasted 33 years, 25 days
  • Ended on death of Wife

Daughter

Margaret III
  • Margaret III
  • 1350 - 1405