Catherine of Courtenay
Catherine de Courtenay ( Germanized Catherine of Courtenay, * 1274, † October 11, 1307 or January 2, 1308 ) was Titularkaiserin of Constantinople Opel.
Life
Catherine was born in 1274 as the only daughter of Titularkaisers of Constantinople Opel Philippe de Courtenay and his first wife Beatrice of Sicily. She grew up in Sicily at the Angevin court of kings. After her father's death in 1283 she inherited the title of emperor as well as the gentlemen Courtenay and Blaton. In addition, she was Titularmarkgräfin of Namur.
After marriage plans with Frederick of Sicily, Michael Palaeologus and the oldest son of the Majorcan king James II had shattered, married Catherine on February 28, 1301 in Saint-Cloud, Charles de Valois, the second son of the French king Philip III. For the connection of Pope Boniface VIII had to grant a dispensation, because the spouses were related in the third degree. For a few years older Charles it was the second, for Catherine 's first marriage. On 23 April of the same year she gave him the inherited rights to Courtenay, Namur and Konstantin Opel. From the union four children were born:
- Jean (1302-1308), Count of Chartres
- Catherine (1303-1346), married to Philip of Taranto
- Jeanne (1304-1363), married to Robert d' Artois
- Isabelle (1306-1349), since 1342 Abbess of Fontevraud.
Catherine de Courtenay died in 1307 or 1308, and was buried in the Paris Jacobin monastery in the Church of Saint -Jacques. Your heart or viscera found the final resting place in the chapel of Saint- Hippolyte the Abbey of Maubuisson. The tomb of black and white marble is now in the Basilica of Saint- Denis.