Marie of France, Countess of Champagne

Marie de Champagne ( German: Marie of Champagne, * 1145, † March 11, 1198 ), also known as Marie de France, was a French princess from the Capetian dynasty and by her marriage a Countess of Champagne. She was the eldest child of King Louis VII of France († 1180) and his first wife Eleanor of Aquitaine († 1204). It was thus, among other things, the half-sister of King Philip II Augustus († 1223 ), Richard I the Lionheart († 1199 ) and John Lackland († 1216 ).

Marie was married in 1164 to Count Henry I of Champagne ( † 1181 ). Her younger sister, Alix married in the same year her husband Theobald V of Blois brother. The sister of the two men, Adele of Champagne, since 1160 was the third wife of Marie's father and thus her stepmother.

From her marriage to Henry Marie had four children:

  • Henry II (* July 29, 1166; † September 10, 1197 in Acre ), Count of Champagne and King of Jerusalem ( uxor nomine ) ∞ on May 5, 1192 Queen Isabella I of Jerusalem ( † 1205 )
  • ∞ on January 6, 1186 Baldwin IX. († 1205 ), Count of Flanders and Hainaut, Emperor of Constantinople Opel
  • ∞ 1195 Blanche of Navarre († 1229 ), daughter of King Sancho VI. of Navarre
  • ∞ Count William V of Macon and Vienne ( † 1224 )

A second marriage with Count Philip I of Flanders, who proposed to her, did not materialize for unknown reasons.

Marie took a total of two times the regency over the county of Champagne. First, during her husband's absence in the Holy Land and the immaturity of her eldest son from 1179 to 1187 as well as the absence of her firstborn and the immaturity of her youngest son from 1190 until her death 1198th So Marie was one of the most influential Grand Duchesses of their time. Your Angevin half-brother Richard the Lionheart closer attached, they preserved in whose favor the neutrality of Champagne during the clashes with her French half-brother Philip Augustus. Her grave is located in the Saint-Etienne Cathedral in Meaux.

Today, Marie is known primarily for its role in the northern French literary history. She was like her mother a literary patron, among other things, promoted the great epic poet Chrétien de Troyes and Trouvère at her court in Troyes.

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  • Medieval genealogie.de: Marie of France. Archived from the original on 16 March 2007, accessed on 1 June 2012.
  • Countess
  • Prince (France)
  • Capetian
  • Frenchman
  • Born in 1145
  • Died in 1198
  • Woman
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