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Agnes of Merania
(1175 ? July 1201) was
Queen of France
by marriage to King
Philip II
.
Agnes of Merania was Queen of France(1175 ?1201)
She is called Marie by some of the French chroniclers.
Biography
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Agnes Maria was the daughter of
Berthold, Duke of Merania
and
Agnes of Rochlitz
.
In June 1196, Agnes married
Philip II of France
, who had repudiated his second wife
Ingeborg of Denmark
in 1193.
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.
Agnes died giving birth to their third child in July of the next year, at the castle of
Poissy
, and was buried in the
Convent of St Corentin
, near
Nantes
.
Family
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Agnes and Philip had two children:
Both were legitimized by the Pope in 1201.
References
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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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