Margaret of Blois

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Margaret of Blois ( French Marguerite de Blois ; * around 1170; † July 12, 1230 in Besançon ) was by marriage Countess Palatine of Burgundy and from 1218 Countess of Blois and Châteaudun .

Life

Margarete was the second child and first daughter of Count Theobald V of Blois and his second wife Alix of France . Through her mother, a daughter of Louis VII , she was the niece of the French King Philip II.

She married Hugues III in her first marriage around 1183 . d'Oisy , Castellan of Cambrai and became his third wife. After his death in August 1189, around 1190 she married Otto von Hohenstaufen , the fourth son of Emperor Friedrich Barbarossa , who had been Count Palatine of Burgundy since 1189. From this connection two children emerged: According to another source, the two children did not come from her, but from a non-aristocratic premarital union of Otto, and there was another premarital son, Hugo, who waived inheritance. After her marriage, however, Margarete vehemently campaigned for the three children to be recognized as high nobility, which she also succeeded in with Beatrix.

  • Johanna (Jeanne) (* around 1191; † 1205/08), buried in Besançon (Saint-Etienne church)
  • Beatrix (* around 1193 † May 7, 1231), heiress of the Palatine County of Burgundy, buried in Langheim Abbey ; ⚭ May 21, 1208 in Bamberg Otto I of Andechs , from 1205 Duke of Merania , from 1211 as Otto II. Palatine of Burgundy, from 1228/1230 Margrave of Istria

The death of Otto von Hohenstaufen in 1200 made Margarete a second widow. Margarete took over the reign of the Palatinate in 1202 until she married her younger daughter - the older one had died - to Otto von Andechs. Her son-in-law took over government from her in 1211.

Around 1202/1203 Margarete married a third time. This time the bridegroom was Walter II of Avesnes , Lord of Avesnes , Leuze , Condé and Guise . She had three other children with him:

When her nephew Theobald VI. , Count of Blois, died in 1218 without a male heir, the counties of Blois and Châteaudun fell to her , which she passed on to Maria, her daughter from her third marriage. Margarete died in Besançon in July 1230 and was buried in the local church of Saint-Etienne. Her grave was moved to the Saint-Jean church in 1674.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Margarete von Blois on the Foundation of Medieval Genealogy website , accessed March 10, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Reiner Haussherr (ed.): The time of the Staufer. History - art - culture . Volume 3: Articles. Württembergisches Landesmuseum, Stuttgart 1977, p. 355.
  3. ↑ Information on Otto von Hohenstaufen on the Foundation of Medieval Genealogy website , accessed on March 10, 2012.
  4. ↑ Josef Isele: Marguerite Cometesse de Blois - Pfalzgräfing von Waldshut- 1192 - 1208 In: Land between the Upper Rhine and the southern Black Forest . Contributions to the history of the Waldshut district. 1994. p. 17 ff.
  5. ↑ Information on Walter von Avesnes on the Foundation of Medieval Genealogy website , accessed March 10, 2012.
  6. ^ Margarete von Blois in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved December 3, 2015.
predecessor Office successor
Theobald VI. Countess of Blois and Châteaudun
1218–1230 		Maria
personal data
SURNAME Margaret of Blois
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marguerite de Blois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Countess of Blois and Châteaudun
DATE OF BIRTH around 1170
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 1230
Place of death Besançon