Marie de Champagne

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Marie de Champagne (German: Marie von Champagne ; * 1145 ; † March 11, 1198 ), also called Marie de France , was a French princess from the Capetian dynasty and a Countess of Champagne through her marriage . She was the oldest child of King Louis VII of France († 1180) and his first wife Eleanor of Aquitaine († 1204). She was among other things the half-sister of the kings Philip II August († 1223), Richard I Lionheart († 1199) and Johann Ohneland († 1216).

Marie was married to Count Heinrich I of Champagne († 1181) in 1164 . Her younger sister Alix married her husband's brother Theobald V. von Blois in the same year . The sister of the two men, Adele von Champagne , was the third wife of Marie's father and thus her stepmother since 1160.

From her marriage to Heinrich, Marie had four children:

  • Henry II (born July 29, 1166 - † September 10, 1197 in Akkon ), Count of Champagne and King of Jerusalem (uxor nomine)
  • Marie (* around 1174, † August 9, 1204 in Palestine)
    • ⚭ on January 6, 1186 Baldwin IX. († 1205), Count of Flanders and Hainaut, Emperor of Constantinople
  • Theobald III. (13 May 1179 - 24 May 1201), Count of Champagne
  • Scholastics († 1219)
    • ⚭ Count Wilhelm V of Macon and Vienne († 1224)

A second marriage with Count Philip I of Flanders , who asked for her hand, did not materialize for unknown reasons.

Marie took over the reign of the county of Champagne twice . Initially during the absence of her husband in the Holy Land and the immaturity of her eldest son from 1179 to 1187 as well as the absence of her firstborn and the immaturity of her youngest son from 1190 until her death in 1198. This made Marie one of the most influential princesses of her time. Closer to her Anglo-Angevin half-brother Richard the Lionheart, she maintained the neutrality of Champagne in his favor during the dispute with her French half-brother Philipp August. Her grave is in the Saint-Etienne cathedral in Meaux .

Today Marie is best known for her role in the history of literature in northern France. She was like her mother a literary patron and promoted at their Count's court in Troyes , among others, the great epic poet and Trouvère Chrétien de Troyes .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Not to be confused with the Anglo-Norman poet Marie de France of the same name !
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SURNAME Marie de Champagne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Marie of Champagne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Regent of Champagne
DATE OF BIRTH 1145
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1198