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Agnes of Merania

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Agnes of Merania
Queen consort of France
Tenure1196–1200
Born1175
DiedJuly 1201 (1201-08)
SpousePhilip II of France
IssueMarie, Duchess of Brabant
Philip I, Count of Boulogne
HouseAndechs
FatherBerthold, Duke of Merania
MotherAgnes of Rochlitz
ReligionCatholicism

Agnes of Merania (1175 – July 1201) was Queen of France by marriage to King Philip II.

She is called Marie by some of the French chroniclers.[1]

Biography

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Agnes Maria was the daughter of Berthold, Duke of Merania[2] and Agnes of Rochlitz.[3]

In June 1196, Agnes married Philip II of France, who had repudiated his second wife Ingeborg of Denmark in 1193.[4] Pope Innocent III espoused the cause of Ingeborg; but Philip did not submit until 1200, when, nine months after interdict had been added to excommunication, he consented to a separation from Agnes.[5]

Agnes died, possibly in childbirth, in July of the next year, at the castle of Poissy, and was buried in the Convent of St Corentin, near Nantes.[5]

Family

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Agnes and Philip had two children:

Both were legitimized by the Pope in 1201.[6]


References

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  1. ^ McAuliffe 2012, p. 197.
  2. ^ Powell 2004, p. 66.
  3. ^ Peters 1971, p. 52.
  4. ^ Bradbury 1997, p. 183.
  5. ^ a b c d McDougall 2017, p. 223.
  6. ^ Hallam 1980, p. 196.

Sources

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  • Bradbury, Jim (1997). Philip Augustus: King of France 1180–1223. The Medieval World (1st ed.). Routledge. ISBN 978-0-582-06059-3.
  • Hallam, Elizabeth (1980). Capetian France, 987-1328. Longman.
  • McAuliffe, Mary (2012). Clash of Crowns: William the Conqueror, Richard Lionheart, and Eleanor of Aquitaine. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
  • McDougall, Sara (2017). Royal Bastards: The Birth of Illegitimacy, 800-1230. Oxford University Press.
  • Peters, Edward, ed. (1971). Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229. University of Pennsylvania Press.
  • Powell, James M., ed. (2004). The Deeds of Pope Innocent III. The Catholic University of America Press.
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French royalty
Preceded by Queen consort of France
1196–1201
Succeeded by