Marie of Brabant, Countess of Savoy

Marie of Brabant (1277/1280–1338), countess consort of Savoy, was a daughter of John I, Duke of Brabant, and Margaret of Flanders. Her marriage was alliance-making: after a papal dispensation, she wed Count Amadeus V at Chambéry in 1298, tying Savoy to Brabant.

Marie brought Brabantine artisans to the Savoyard court and acted there as a diplomat and political adviser. Her sister Margaret was the wife of Henry VII, elected king of Germany in 1308; in 1310 the couple visited Marie at Geneva, and Amadeus joined Henry's Italian campaign.

Widowed in 1323, when her stepson Edward succeeded, she died in 1338. Her daughter Anna married the Byzantine emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos.