Marie of Brabant (13 May 1254 – 12 January 1322) was
Queen of France
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from 1274 until 1285 as the second wife of
King Philip III. Born in
Leuven
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,
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Belgium
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, she was a daughter of
Henry III, Duke of Brabant
Henry III of Brabant ( 1230 – February 28, 1261, Leuven) was Duke of Brabant between 1248 and his death. He was the son of Henry II of Brabant and Marie of Hohenstaufen. He was also a trouvère.
The disputed territory of Lothier, the fo ...
, and
Adelaide of Burgundy.
Queen
Marie married the widowed
Philip III of France on 21 August 1274. His first wife,
Isabella of Aragon, had already given birth to three surviving sons:
Louis,
Philip
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and
Charles
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.
Philip was under the strong influence of his mother,
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 ...
, and his minion, surgeon and chamberlain (Chambellan)
Pierre de La Broce
Pierre de la Broce or de la Brosse (died 30 June 1278) was a royal favorite and councilor during the early reign of Philip III of France.
De la Broce was from a family of petty nobility in Touraine, and was a minor household official for Louis IX ...
. Not being French, Marie stood out at the French court. In 1276, Marie's stepson Louis died under suspicious circumstances. Marie was suspected of ordering him to be poisoned. La Brosse, who was also suspected, was imprisoned and later executed for the murder.
Queen dowager
After the death of Philip III in 1285, Marie lost some of her political influence, and dedicated her life to their three children:
Louis (May 1276 – 19 May 1319),
Blanche (1278 – 19 March 1305) and
Margaret
Margaret is a female first name, derived via French () and Latin () from grc, μαργαρίτης () meaning "pearl". The Greek is borrowed from Persian.
Margaret has been an English name since the 11th century, and remained popular through ...
(died in 1318). Her stepson
Philip IV was crowned king of France on 6 January 1286 in
Reims
Reims ( , , ; also spelled Rheims in English) is the most populous city in the French department of Marne, and the 12th most populous city in France. The city lies northeast of Paris on the Vesle river, a tributary of the Aisne.
Founded b ...
.
Together with
Joan I of Navarre and
Blanche of Artois, she negotiated peace in 1294 between England and France with
Edmund Crouchback, the younger brother of
Edward I of England
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.
Marie lived through Philip IV's reign and she outlived her children. She died in 1322, aged 67, in the monastery at
Les Mureaux, near
Meulan, where she had withdrawn to in 1316. Marie was not buried in the royal necropolis of
Basilica of Saint-Denis, but in the
Cordeliers Convent
:''There were several Cordeliers Convents in France. This article is about the one in Paris.''
The Cordeliers Convent (French: ''Couvent des Cordeliers'') was a convent in Paris, France. It gave its name to the Club of the Cordeliers, which held ...
, in
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Si ...
. Destroyed in a fire in 1580, the church was rebuilt in the following years.
See also
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Marie of Brabant (disambiguation)
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