Catherine de Courtenay

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Catherine de Courtenay (Germanized Katharina von Courtenay ; * 1274 ; † October 11, 1307 or January 2, 1308 ) was titular empress of Constantinople .

Life

Catherine was born in 1274 as the only daughter of the titular emperor of Constantinople Philippe de Courtenay and his first wife Beatrix of Sicily and grew up at the Angevin court of the kings of Sicily. After the death of her father in 1283, she inherited the imperial title and the lordships of Courtenay and Blaton . In addition, she was Titular Margrave Countess of Namur .

Head of the Hodegetria; Cappella della Madonna di Montevergine in Mercogliano

They also inherited the large head of the great Hodegetria - icon , to her grandfather Baldwin II. Is said to have taken in his flight from Constantinople Opel 1,261th The icon is said to have been brought from Jerusalem to Constantinople by Aelia Eudocia and was considered to be the cult image portrayed by Saint Luke . Owning the Hodegetria was very important at the time. It signified the true palladium of Constantinople and at the same time meant securing its protection and the hope of a return to the city that was so close to our hearts.

After marriage plans with Frederick of Sicily , Michael Palaiologos and the eldest son of the Mallorcan King James II had been shattered, Catherine married on February 28, 1301 in Saint-Cloud Charles de Valois , the second son of the French King Philip III. Pope Boniface VIII had to grant a dispensation for the connection , because the spouses were related in the third degree. It was the second marriage for Charles a few years older, and the first for Catherine. On April 23 of the same year she transferred the inherited rights to Courtenay, Namur and Constantinople to him. Four children emerged from the connection:

Catherine de Courtenay died in 1307 or 1308 and was buried in the Saint-Jacques church of the Jacobin convent in Paris . Their hearts or entrails found their final resting place in the chapel of Saint-Hippolyte of Maubuisson Abbey . The black and white marble tomb is now in the Saint-Denis basilica .

literature

  • Alice Saunier-Séïté: Les Courtenay. Destin d'une illustrious famille bourguignonne . Editions France-Empire, 1998, ISBN 2-7048-0845-7 , pp. 195 ff.

Web links

Commons : Catherine de Courtenay  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Biographical information on Catherine de Courtenay on fmg.ac , accessed on August 27, 2011.
  2. ↑ In the literature Blaton or Blaçon. The name "Blaçon" comes from Jean du Bouchet: Histoire généalogique de la maison royale de Courtenay. Preuves, Paris 1661, p. 22: terram nostram de Cortenayo, de Blacon, de Hellebek et de Breviller , then also Detlev Schwennicke: European family tables . Volume II. 1984, plate 22; Andreas Thiele: Narrative genealogical family tables on European history. Volume II, Part 1: European Imperial, Royal and Princely Houses I Western Europe. Plate 49, and Medieval Lands , on the other hand “Blaton” in Erf / Gruber / Meier / Brockhaus e. a .: General Encyclopedia of Sciences and Arts. Addenda: Caberea - Cryptosoma. 1830, p. 421; Patrick Van Kerrebrouck: Les Valois. 2000, p. 70 and Jules Viard: Philippe de Valois avant son avènement au trône. In: Bibliothèque de l'école des chartes. Volume 91. 1930, p. 310, where Blaton is specified in footnote 3: “  Blaton, Belgique, prov. De Hainaut, arr. De Tournai, cant. de Peruwelz  »
  3. ↑ Michele Scaringella: La Madonna Odigitria o Maria Santissima di Costantinopoli e San Nicola venerati a Bari. (PDF) p. 6 , accessed on August 30, 2017 (Italian).
  4. ^ Margherita Guarducci: La più antica icone di Maria, un prodigioso vincolo tra Oriente e Occidente . Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca Dello Stato, Rome 1989, p. 68 (Italian).
  5. ↑ Anselme de Sainte-Marie : Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la maison royale de France, des pairs, grands officiers de la couronne & de la maison du Roy, & des anciens barons du royaume . Volume 1. Paris 1726 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Biographical information on Charles de Valois on fmg.ac , accessed on August 27, 2011.
  7. ↑ Jules Jaquemet: L'Eglise de St-Denis. Sa crypte, ses tombeaux, ses chapelles, son trésor . Putois-Cretté, Paris 1867, p. 156 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Ferdinand Guilhermy: Monograph de l'église royale de Saint-Denis: tombeaux et figures historiques . Didron, Paris 1848, p. 258 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Catherine de Courtenay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Catherine of Courtenay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Titular Empress of Constantinople
DATE OF BIRTH 1274
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1307 or January 2, 1308