Margaret (Namur)

Margarete von Courtenay (* approx. 1194; † July 17, 1270 ) was a married Countess of Vianden and from 1229 to 1237 a Margravine of Namur from the House of Courtenay . She was a daughter of Peter von Courtenay († 1217/19), Latin Emperor of Constantinople , and the Jolante of Flanders († 1219).

Life

Margarete was probably the eldest child of her parents and was born around 1194, as it is documented that she was the wife of Raoul III in 1210. is called by Issoudun. He drew up his will in 1212 and is likely to have died in the same year, whereupon Margarete married Count Heinrich I von Vianden around 1217 . She had six children with him:

Mathilde, ∞ around 1235 Johannes Angelos , Duke of Syrmia
Peter († after 1272)
Friedrich († 1247)
Heinrich († 1267), Bishop of Utrecht 1249–1267
Philipp († 1273), Count of Vianden
Yolanda († 1283)

After the death of her brother Henry II in 1229, Margaret immediately occupied Namur Castle and took control of the county. With this she got ahead of Count Ferdinand of Flanders , who also asserted a claim to ownership of the Namurois. This found support in King Henry (VII) , who gave him the Namurois as an imperial fief on June 3, 1229. Thanks to the support of her husband and Enguerrands III. von Coucy , her brother's former guardian, Margarete was initially able to assert herself against Ferdinand. In 1230 and 1231 she was able to appear as the “Countess of Namur” (comitissam Namucensem). But in 1232 Ferdinand advanced with an army into the Namurois and captured Floreffe . Thereupon the fight was ended on November 1st, 1232 in Cambrai in a contractual settlement in which Margarete, now appearing here as "Margravine" (marchissam Namucensem), ceded the castles of Viesville and Golzinne to the Count of Flanders and her husband took the oath of the team swore and in return she was recognized as the rightful owner of the rest of the county of Namur.

In 1237 Margarete's only living brother, Emperor Baldwin II , came to Western Europe from distant Constantinople and, as the last son of her parents, claimed the right of inheritance to Namur. Reluctantly, and only after paying £ 7,000, she ceded the county to him. On Balduin's second visit in 1247, he determined her will in his will as his first contingent heir should he die childless, which, however, did not happen.

After the death of her husband in 1252, Margarete entered the Marienthal monastery , where she died on July 17, 1270.

source

Herman Vander Linden: Marguerite de Courtenay. Académie royale de Belgique, Biographie Nationale de Belgique , Volume 13, Brussels 1895, pp. 629–631.

Remarks

^ E. Petit: Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la race de Capétienne. Volume 3, No. 1229, 1891, p. 431.
↑ Annales Floreffienses. In: MGH SS. 16, p. 626.
^ Alberich von Trois-Fontaines : Chronica. In: MGH SS. 23, p. 924.
^ A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique. Volume 4, 1874, p. 80.
^ F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg. Volume 1, No. IX, 1844, p. 137.
^ Alberich von Trois-Fontaines: Chronica. In: MGH SS. 23, p. 924.
^ A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique. Volume 4, 1874, p. 96.
^ F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg. Volume 1, No. X, 1844, pp. 137ff.
↑ Annales Floreffienses. In: MGH SS. 16, p. 627.
^ A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique. Volume 4, 1874, p. 154.
^ F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg. Volume 1, No. XI, 1844, pp. 139f.
^ Alberich von Trois-Fontaines: Chronica. In: MGH SS. 23, p. 941.
↑ Baldwin of Avesnes , Chronicon Hanoniense. In: MGH SS. 25, p. 455.
↑ J. De Laborde: Layettes du trésor des Chartes. Volume 3, No. 3604, 1875, pp. 11f.
^ André du Chesne (ed.): Histoire géneálogique des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de France. 1628, preuves p. 138f.
↑ The date of death is taken from the epitaph on her grave slab: "Hæc est avia mea, soror Balduini Imperatoris Constantinopolitani, soror Marguarita, quandam comitissa Viennensis, quæ obit XVI kalendas augusti anno Domini M.CC.LXX." Cf. Auguste Neyen: Histoire de la ville de Vianden et de ses comtes. Luxembourg 1851, p. 88f.

predecessor	Office	successor
Henry II	Countess of Namur 1229–1237	Baldwin

personal data
SURNAME	Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Marguerite de Courtenay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Margravine of Namur
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1194
DATE OF DEATH	July 17, 1270

[1] E. Petit: Histoire des ducs de Bourgogne de la race de Capétienne. Volume 3, No. 1229, 1891, p. 431.

[2] Annales Floreffienses. In: MGH SS. 16, p. 626.

[3] Alberich von Trois-Fontaines : Chronica. In: MGH SS. 23, p. 924.

[4] A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique. Volume 4, 1874, p. 80.

[5] F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg. Volume 1, No. IX, 1844, p. 137.

[6] Alberich von Trois-Fontaines: Chronica. In: MGH SS. 23, p. 924.

[7] A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique. Volume 4, 1874, p. 96.

[8] F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg. Volume 1, No. X, 1844, pp. 137ff.

[9] Annales Floreffienses. In: MGH SS. 16, p. 627.

[10] A. Wauters: Table chronologique des chartes et diplomes imprimés concernant l'histoire de Belgique. Volume 4, 1874, p. 154.

[11] F. Reiffenberg: Monuments pour servir a l'histoire provinces de Namur, de Hainaut et de Luxembourg. Volume 1, No. XI, 1844, pp. 139f.

[12] Alberich von Trois-Fontaines: Chronica. In: MGH SS. 23, p. 941.

[13] Baldwin of Avesnes , Chronicon Hanoniense. In: MGH SS. 25, p. 455.

[14] J. De Laborde: Layettes du trésor des Chartes. Volume 3, No. 3604, 1875, pp. 11f.

[15] André du Chesne (ed.): Histoire géneálogique des ducs de Bourgogne de la maison de France. 1628, preuves p. 138f.

[16] The date of death is taken from the epitaph on her grave slab: "Hæc est avia mea, soror Balduini Imperatoris Constantinopolitani, soror Marguarita, quandam comitissa Viennensis, quæ obit XVI kalendas augusti anno Domini M.CC.LXX." Cf. Auguste Neyen: Histoire de la ville de Vianden et de ses comtes. Luxembourg 1851, p. 88f.