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Margaret of Brabant (9 February 1323 – 1380 [1]) was Countess of Flanders by marriage. She was the second daughter of Duke John III of Brabant and Mary of Évreux.
Margaret III (13 April 1350 – 16/21 March 1405) was a ruling Countess of Flanders, Countess of Artois, and Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne between 1384 and 1405. She was the last Countess of Flanders of the House of Dampierre. She was also Duchess of Burgundy by marriage to Philip I, Duke of Burgundy and Philip II, Duke of Burgundy.
- Thomas Aquinas’s Letter to Margaret of Flanders
- The Text
- First Response
- Second Response
- Third Response
- Fourth Response
- Fifth Response
- Sixth Response
- Seventh Response
- Eighth Response
This is Thomas’s letter to Margaret of Flanders, often known as his “Letter on the Treatment of the Jews.” The letter does, in fact, discuss how a ruler should deal with Jews living in a land during the 1200’s (although it touches on other issues, as well). I made this translation from the Leonine Edition, left Thomas’s sometimes turgid text alone ...
To the illustrious Lady etc., Brother Thomas from Aquino of the Order of the Preachers sends his greeting etc. I received Your Excellency’s letters from which I have fully come to understand the pious care that you have concerning the rule of your subjects and the devout love you have towards the brethren of our Order, giving thanks to God who has ...
First therefore, Your Excellency inquired whether it is allowable for you at some time and in what way to make an exaction upon the Jews. To which question (proposed in this unqualified way) it can be answered that although, as the laws say, the Jews by reason of their fault are sentenced to perpetual servitude and thus the lords of the lands in wh...
Now, second you asked, if a Jew should sin, should this person be punished with the financial penalty, since he seems to have nothing aside from usurious money. To which question it seems the response should be, in line with what has been said before, that it is expeditious that he be punished with a financial penalty, in order that he might not ac...
Third it was asked, if he (the Jew) should give money on his own accord, or some peace token, whether it is licit to accept it. To which the response is, that it seems that it is licit accept it. And it is helpful that money received in this way be returned to those to whom it is owed, or otherwise expended, as has been said before, if they have no...
Fourth you asked, if you receive more from a Jew than Christians require from him, what should be done with what is left over. The response for this comes from what has been said before. For that Christians do not require from the Jew what is left over can happen in two ways: in one way perhaps because the Jew has things apart from usurious gain, a...
Fifth you asked about bailiffs and your officials, whether it is legitimate for you to sell them these offices or to receive a loan from them rated until they acquire the same amount in the offices assigned to them. In responding to this it seems that this question seems to contain two difficulties, of which the first is about the sale of offices. ...
Sixth you asked whether it is legitimate for you to levy taxes upon your Christian subjects or to force loans. In which matter you did consider that the princes of countries are instituted by God not, for sure, that they should seek their own gain but that they should procure the common utility of the people. For towards the blame of certain prince...
Seventh you asked, if your officials without the order of law should extort something for the subjects which makes its way to your hands (or maybe not), what you should do. On this matter the answer is clear, because, if it should come to your hands, you should give it back, either to known persons if you can, or also to expend it for pious uses or...
Finally you ask whether it is good that Jews throughout your province are compelled to wear a sign distinguishing them from Christians. The reply to this is plain: that, according to a statute of the general Council, Jews of each sex in all Christian provinces, and all the time, should be distinguished from other people by some clothing. This is al...
Born in 1323; died in 1368; daughter of John III (1300–1355), duke of Brabant (r. 1312–1355), and Marie of Evreux (d. 1335); sister of Joanna of Brabant (1322–1406) and Marie of Guelders (1325–1399); married Louis II de Male (1330–1384), count of Flanders and Artois (r. 1346–1384); children: Margaret of Flanders (1350–1405, who ...
Duchess of Brabant. Name variations: Margaret of Brabant. Died in 1285; daughter of Guy of Flanders (probably Guy de Dampierre, later count of Flanders, son of Margaret of Flanders [1202–1280]); became second wife of John I (c. 1252–1294), duke of Brabant, in 1273; children: a son who died.
The Duchess of Brabant refers to a woman married to the Duke of Brabant. But this was only as of 1840 when it was revived as an honorific title for the Crown Prince of the newly created Kingdom of Belgium. There have been only three royal duchesses.
29 apr 2022 · On September 26, 1371, Margaret of Brabant and her mother-in-law, Margaret of France, Countess of Artois, as well as their attendants, were guests of Philip the Bold, Duke of Burgundy for a supper in Lens.
