Infante Fernando of Portugal, Count of Flanders (;
English Ferdinand;
Old French Ferrand) was a
Portuguese infante (prince), fourth son of
Portuguese King Sancho I and
Dulce Berenguer. He was
Count of Flanders by marriage to
Jeanne of Flanders, eldest daughter of
Baldwin IX of Flanders. Ferdinand was born on
March 24 1188.
Ferdinand married Jeanne on January
1212 in
Paris. He was the nephew of Jeanne's great-aunt-by-marriage
Matilda of Portugal.
While on their way to
Flanders the newlyweds were captured by Jeanne's first cousin Louis (the future
Louis VIII of France), eldest son of
Philip Augustus and Jeanne's aunt
Elizabeth of Flanders. Louis' aim was to acquire his dead mother's dowry, a large piece of Flemish territory including
Artois, which Jeanne's father had taken back by force after Elizabeth's death.
Released after this concession, Jeanne and Ferdinand soon joined the old allies of her father, king
John of England and Emperor
Otto IV, in an alliance against France. They were decisively defeated at
Bouvines in July
1214, where Ferdinand was taken prisoner.
Ferdinand was to remain in French hands for the next 12 years, while Jeanne ruled alone.
He died in
Noyon on
July 27 1233.
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