Agnes of France (c. 1260 – 19 December 1327) was

Duchess of Burgundy This article lists queens, countesses, and duchesses consort of the Kingdom, County, Duchy of Burgundy. Queen consort of Burgundy Queen consort of the Burgundians (till 534) Frankish Burgundy (534–855) Merovingian dynasty (534–751) ...

by marriage to

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. She served as regent of Burgundy during the minority of her son's reign in 1306–1311.

Life

She was the youngest daughter of

Louis IX of France Louis IX (25 April 1214 – 25 August 1270), commonly known as Saint Louis or Louis the Saint, was King of France from 1226 to 1270, and the most illustrious of the Direct Capetians. He was crowned in Reims at the age of 12, following the ...

and

Margaret of Provence Margaret of Provence (french: Marguerite; 1221 – 20 December 1295) was Queen of France by marriage to King Louis IX. Early life Margaret was born in the spring of 1221 in Forcalquier. She was the eldest of four daughters of Ramon Berenguer IV ...

. She was the youngest of eleven children, eight of whom lived to adulthood. She married

in 1279, and became the mother of eight children. On the death of her husband in 1306, Agnes served as regent of Burgundy for her minor son Hugh until he reached adulthood in 1311. She died at

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, December 1327, and is buried at Abbaye de Cîteaux.

Issue

Hugh V, Duke of Burgundy Hugh V (1294 – 9 May 1315) was Duke of Burgundy between 1306 and 1315. Hugh was the eldest son of Duke Robert II of Burgundy and Agnes of France.''The Morea:1311-1364'', Peter Topping, A History of the Crusades: The Fourteenth and Fifteent ...

(1282–1315). * Blanche (1288–1348), married

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(1290–1315), married king Louis X of France *

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(ca.1290–1348), married Philip, count of Maine and Valois later Philip VI of France * Odo IV, Duke of Burgundy (1295–1350) *

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King of Thessalonica The King of Thessalonica was the ruler of the Kingdom of Thessalonica, one of the crusader states founded in Greece in the aftermath of the Fourth Crusade (1202–1204). The King of Thessalonica was not an independent ruler; the Kingdom of Thess ...

(1297–1316), married Matilda of Hainaut. *Mary (1298–1336) married Edward I, Count of Bar *Robert, Count of Tonnerre (1302–1334), married Joanna, heiress of Tonnerre.

References

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