Agnes of Beaujeu

Agnes von Beaujeu (* around 1202; † July 11, 1231 ) was a French noblewoman. She became Countess of Champagne by marriage in 1222 .

Agnes was the eldest daughter of Guichard IV , Lord of Beaujeu and Montpensier, and his wife Sibylla, daughter of Count Baldwin V of Hainaut, who as Baldwin VIII was also Count of Flanders. Since another daughter of Baldwin, Isabella , had married the French King Philip II August , this was Agnes' uncle by marriage.

As the Cistercian monk Alberich von Trois-Fontaines reports in his world chronicle , Agnes married Count Theobald IV of Champagne , about two years older than him, in 1222 , who earlier in the same year had married his first wife Gertrud , a daughter of Count Albrecht , who had remained childless II of Dagsburg , had divorced.

Agnes gave birth to her husband's daughter Blanche (* around 1226; † August 12, 1283), who married Duke John I of Brittany in 1236 . Agnes died in 1231 and was buried in Clairvaux monastery; she did not live to see Theobald become king of Navarre in 1234.

literature

• G. Odend'hal: Agnès de Beaujeu. In: Dictionnaire de Biographie française , Vol. 1 (1932), Col. 740.

Web links

• Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands Agnes de Beaujeu