Margaret, Countess of Blois

Margaret of Blois (French Marguerite de Blois, * 1170, † 12 July 1230 in Besançon) was by marriage Countess Palatine of Burgundy from 1218 Countess of Blois and Châteaudun.

Life

Margaret was the second child and first daughter of Count Theobald V of Blois and his second wife Alix of France to the world. Through her ​​mother, a daughter of Louis VII, she was the niece of the French king Philip II.

She married her first husband in 1183 to Hugues III. d' Oisy, castellan of Cambrai and was his third wife. After his death in August 1189, she went to a second marriage in 1190 with Otto von Hohenstaufen, the fourth son of Emperor Frederick Barbarossa, one that was from 1189, Count Palatine of Burgundy. From this connection, two common children were born:

  • Johanna (* around 1191, † 1205/ 08), buried in Besançon ( Saint- Etienne)
  • Beatrix (* 1193 † May 7, 1231 ), heiress of the county palatine of Burgundy, buried in long home monastery; ∞ May 21, 1208 in Bamberg Otto I of Andechs, from 1205 Duke of Meranien, from 1211 when Otto II, Count Palatine of Burgundy, from 1228/1230 Margrave of Istria

The death of Otto von Hohenstaufen in 1200 was Margaret a second time to a widow. Margaret took over in 1202 the regency in the County Palatine until her younger daughter - the older one was deceased - was married to Otto von Andechs. Her son took over in 1211, the affairs of her.

To 1202/1203 Margaret married a third time. The groom was this time Walter II of Avesnes, Lord of Avesnes, Leuze, Conde and Guise. With him she had three more children:

  • Theobald, † young
  • Mary of Avesnes ( † after April 1241 ), from 1231 Countess of Blois, ∞ 1225 Hugh I of Châtillon, Count of Saint-Pol
  • Isabelle, ∞ Johann, Seigneur of Montreuil Oisy and

When her nephew Theobald VI. , Count of Blois, died in 1218 without male heirs, it fell to the counties of Blois and Châteaudun they to Mary, her daughter from her third marriage, further inherited. Margaret died in July 1230 in Besançon, and was buried in the local church of Saint- Etienne. Her grave was moved in 1674 to the church of Saint -Jean.

Weblink

  • Information about Margaret of Blois on the website of the Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
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