Margaret of Burgundy

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Margaret of Burgundy

Margaret of Burgundy (* around 1290; † April 30, 1315 in Château Gaillard ) was Queen of France from 1314 to 1315 , and Queen of Navarre since her marriage in 1305 .

Life

Margaret was the daughter of Duke Robert II of Burgundy (1248-1306) and Agnes of France (1260-1325), a daughter of King Louis IX. from France , born. She was betrothed to Louis , the eldest son of King Philip IV of France and Queen Joan I of Navarre , on February 28, 1300 . The couple married on September 23, 1305 in Vernon. In the same year, Margaret's husband became King of Navarre as Louis I and, on November 29, 1314, after the death of his father, King of France as Louis X.

At the beginning of 1314 Philip IV had his three daughters-in-law, Margaret and the two sisters Johanna and Blanka of Burgundy arrested, after - according to a contemporary chronicle - his own daughter, Isabella of England , had her for adultery with two young knights, the brothers Philippe and Gautier d'Aunay, had indicated (see: Tour de Nesle ). Margarete and Blanka were allegedly caught red-handed with their lovers, Johanna was only a confidante. Under the torture, the two knights are said to have confessed that their relationship with the princesses had already lasted three years, after which they were executed in Pontoise in April 1314 .

Margarete was brought to the fortress Château Gaillard together with Blanche and imprisoned in the dungeon there. Her hair was shorn and she received poor care in her unheated, draughty dungeon. According to a chronicle report, she regretted her sinful behavior. She was found dead in her prison cell on April 30, 1315, so she had only been Queen of France for a few months. She probably died of pneumonia . However, there was also a rumor that she was strangled with the help of her own hair or suffocated between pillows on the orders of Ludwig X. She found her final resting place in the Franciscan Church in Vernon. On July 31, 1315, Louis X. married Clementine of Hungary for the second time .

The sad Los Margaretes gave rise to the historically untenable legend of the Tour de Nesle, which, among others, Alexandre Dumas the Elder ( La Tour de Nesle , 1832) processed literarily.

progeny

Ludwig and Margarete are the parents of the later Queen Johanna II of Navarre (1311-1349).

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Date of death according to Bernhard Töpfer, The French Kings of the Middle Ages , 1996, p. 231 and Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands Marguerite de Bourgogne .
  2. Gerd Hit, The French Queens , 1996, pp. 165f.
  3. Gerd Hit, The French Queens , 1996, p. 166.
  4. ^ E. Lalou: Margarete 8 . In: Lexicon of the Middle Ages (LexMA). Volume 6, Artemis & Winkler, Munich / Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7608-8906-9 , Sp. 237.
  5. ^ L. Grégoire, Nouvelle biographie générale , vol. 33 (1860), col. 565.
  6. Marriage date according to Bernhard Töpfer, The French Kings of the Middle Ages , 1996, pp. 231 and 235; According to Gerd Treff ( Die French Queens , 1996, p. 168), Clementine and Ludwig X. married on August 19, 1315.
predecessor Office Successor
Joan of Navarre Queen of France
1314–1315
Clementine of Hungary