Margaret, Marchioness of Namur

Marguerite de Courtenay (* 1194, † July 17, 1270 ) was Margrave of Namur from 1229 to 1237 she was a daughter of Pierre II de Courtenay, Latin Emperor of Constantinople Opel, and Yolanda of Flanders..

She married her first husband around 1210 Raoul III. d' Issoudun ( † 1 March after 1212 ) from the House of Lusignan; the marriage was annulled in 1213. In 1217 it was (probably 1253 † 19 November), married in second marriage with Henry I, Count of Vianden. Your children are from this marriage:

  • Mathilde, ∞ 1235 Johann Angelus, duke of Srem
  • Peter ( † after 1272 )
  • Friedrich ( † 1247 )
  • Heinrich ( † 1267 ), Bishop of Utrecht 1249-1267
  • Philipp († 1273), Count of Vianden
  • Yolanda († 1283)

After her brother Henry II 's death ( 1229 ) she took possession of the Margraviate of Namur, where they benefited from the fact that the actual heir, her brother Baldwin was in the Orient. Ferdinand, Count of Flanders and Hainaut, challenged their claim of ownership and took up arms. Marguerite was forced to sign on November 1, 1232 in Cambrai a peace treaty by which, although they lost several cities, but was able to finish Ferdinand attacks.

1237 came her brother Baldwin back to Europe and got passed by the Margraviate of Flanders with the help of the king of France and the Countess. Marguerite retired to the county of Vianden. 1247 Baldwin appointed for the case of a childless death of heiress, but then sold after the conquest of Namur by Henry V, Count of Luxembourg 's rights to his cousin Guy de Dampierre, who was from 1253, Count of Flanders.

1252, after the death of her husband Marguerite entered the Kloster Marienthal, where she died on 17 July 1270.

Source

  • Herman Vander Linden: Marguerite de Courtenay. Académie royale de Belgique, national biography, Volume 13, Brussels 1895, pp. 629-631.
  • Graf ( Namur)
  • Born in 1194
  • Died in 1270
  • Woman
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