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Mary Of Champagne
Marie of Champagne ( – 29 August 1204) was the first Latin Empress of Constantinople by marriage to Emperor Baldwin I. She acted as regent of Flanders during the absence of her spouse from 1202 until 1204. Life Marie was a daughter of Henry I, Count of Champagne, and Marie, daughter of King Louis VII of France and Eleanor of Aquitaine. According to the chronicle of Gislebert of Mons, on 13 May 1179 Marie was officially bethrothed to Baldwin, son of the count of Flanders and Hainaut, to whom she was already promised to be wed in 1171. Her betrothed was Baldwin VI, son of Baldwin V, Count of Hainaut and Margaret I, Countess of Flanders. Countess of Flanders On 6 January 1186, Marie and Baldwin were married at Valenciennes. The young countess consort issued charters in her own name and seems to have a soft spot for the cities in Flanders.Karen S. Nicholas, Countesses as Rulers in Flanders, in Theodore Evergates (ed.), ''Aristocratic Women in Medieval France'', (Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Latin Empress Of Constantinople
The following is a list of the Latin empresses consort of Constantinople. Yolanda of Flanders and Marie of Brienne were not only empresses consort but also empresses regent. Catherine I and Catherine II were empresses regnant, not empresses consort. Latin Empresses consort of Constantinople Latin Empresses consort of Constantinople in exile * Beatrice of Sicily (1273–1275) * Marie de Bourbon (1347–1364) *Maria of Calabria (1364–1366) *Elizabeth of Slavonia (1370–1374) *Agnes of Durazzo (1382—1383) See also *Latin Emperor *List of Roman and Byzantine empresses *List of exiled and pretending Byzantine Empresses * List of Queens of Jerusalem * List of Queens of Cyprus *Princess of Antioch *Princess of Achaea References External linksLatin Emperors {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Latin Empresses * Emp Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
