nanshe-of-nina:WOMEN’S HISTORY † MARIE DE FRANCE (1145 – 11 March 1198)Marie de F
nanshe-of-nina:WOMEN’S HISTORY † MARIE DE FRANCE (1145 – 11 March 1198)Marie de France was the elder daughter of Louis VII de France and Alienòr d’Aquitània. Her parents’ marriage was annulled in 1152 and Marie and her younger sister, Aélis, remained at their father’s court. In 1160, Louis married Adèle de Champagne (after his second wife, Constanza de Castilla, died in childbirth) and betrothed his two eldest daughters to Adèle’s brothers: Henri I, comte de Champagne and Thibaut V, comte de Blois. Marie and Henri married in 1164 and had four children. Like her mother, Marie became a patron of poets, including Chrétien de Troyes, Walter Map and André le Chapelain. She was very close to her half-brother, Richard I of England, but her relationship with her other half-brother, Philippe II de France, was not as harmonious. Her main quarrel against Philippe was that he married Isabelle de Hainaut, even though Isabelle had promised to Marie’s eldest son, Henri II. Her husband died in 1181, not long after his return from the Crusades, and Marie served as regent for her son until 1187. She resumed regency when her son went on crusade in 1190 with his uncles Richard and Philippe. After her eldest son’s death in 1197, Marie retired to a nunnery and died there a year later. -- source link
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