Marie of Luxembourg (1304 – 26 March 1324) was
Queen of France
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and
Navarre
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as the second wife of King
Charles IV and I.
She was the daughter of
Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Henry VII (German: ''Heinrich''; c. 1273 – 24 August 1313),Kleinhenz, pg. 494 also known as Henry of Luxembourg, was Count of Luxembourg, King of Germany (or ''Rex Romanorum'') from 1308 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1312. He was the first emp ...
and
Margaret of Brabant
Margaret of Brabant (4 October 1276 – 14 December 1311), was the daughter of John I, Duke of Brabant and Margaret of Flanders. She was the wife of Henry, Count of Luxembourg, and after his election as King of Germany in 1308, she b ...
. Her two siblings were
John of Luxembourg and
Beatrice of Luxembourg, Queen of Hungary.
Life
Marie was betrothed in 1308 to Louis of Bavaria, son and heir to
Rudolf I, Duke of Bavaria
Rudolf I of Bavaria, called "the Stammerer" (german: link=no, Rudolf der Stammler; 4 October 1274 – 12 August 1319), a member of the Wittelsbach dynasty, was Duke of Upper Bavaria and Count Palatine of the Rhine from 1294 until 1317.
Life
R ...
. The engagement was agreed on soon after Marie's father Henry became
King of the Romans
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The title originally referred to any German k ...
; Rudolf had been a supporter of her father during the struggle for power. It ended due to the death of Louis around 1311. During the same year, Marie's mother Queen Margaret died whilst travelling with Henry in Genoa.
On 21 September 1322 in either
Paris
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or
Provins
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Marie married to
Charles IV of France
Charles IV (18/19 June 1294 – 1 February 1328), called the Fair (''le Bel'') in France and the Bald (''el Calvo'') in Navarre, was last king of the direct line of the House of Capet, King of France and King of Navarre (as Charles I) from 132 ...
following the annulment of his first marriage to the adulterous
Blanche of Burgundy
Blanche of Burgundy ( 1296 – 1326) was Queen of France and Navarre for a few months in 1322 through her marriage to King Charles IV the Fair. The daughter of Count Otto IV of Burgundy and Countess Mahaut of Artois, she was led to a dis ...
. Blanche had given birth to two children, Philip and Joan, but both of them died young and Charles needed a son and heir to carry on the
House of Capet
The House of Capet (french: Maison capétienne) or the Direct Capetians (''Capétiens directs''), also called the House of France (''la maison de France''), or simply the Capets, ruled the Kingdom of France from 987 to 1328. It was the most ...
.
On 15 May 1323 Marie was consecrated Queen of France at
Sainte-Chapelle
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...
by Guillaume de Melum, Archbishop of Sens. In the same year she became pregnant but she later miscarried a girl. Whilst pregnant again in March 1324, Marie and Charles were travelling to
Avignon
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to visit the pope when Marie fell out of the bottom of the coach.
[RHGF XXI, E floribus chronicorum auctore Bernardo Guidonis, p. 733.] As a result, she went into labour and her child, a boy (Louis), was born prematurely, and died several hours later; Queen Marie died on 26 March 1324 and was buried at Montargis in the Dominican church. Following her death Charles married
Jeanne d'Évreux
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* Jeanne (crater), on Venus
People
* Jeanne (given name)
* Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc, 1412–1431)
* Joanna of Flanders (1295–1374)
* Joan, Duchess of Brittany (1319–1384)
* Ruth Stuber Jeanne (1910–2004), Amer ...
, but failed to father a son, so the direct
House of Capet
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was succeeded by its branch, the
House of Valois
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.
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