Margaret of France, Queen of England and Hungary
Margaret of France | |
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Acre | |
Burial | |
Spouse | Henry the Young King Béla III of Hungary |
Issue | William |
House | Capet |
Father | Louis VII of France |
Mother | Constance of Castile |
Margaret of France (
Family history
Margaret was the eldest daughter of
She was betrothed to Henry the Young King on 2 November 1160. Henry was the second son of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He was five years old at the time of this agreement while Margaret was about two. Margaret's dowry was the vital and much disputed territory of Vexin.[1]
Queen of England
Margaret's husband became co-ruler with his father in 1170. Because Archbishop Thomas Becket was in exile, Margaret was not crowned along with her husband on 14 July 1170. This omission and the coronation being handled by a surrogate greatly angered her father. To please the French King, Henry II had his son and Margaret crowned together in Winchester Cathedral on 27 August 1172.[2] When Margaret became pregnant, she held her confinement in Paris, where she gave birth prematurely to their only son William on 19 June 1177, who died three days later on 22 June. She had no further children.
Margaret was accused in 1182 of having a love affair with
Queen of Hungary
After receiving a substantial pension in exchange for surrendering her dowry of Gisors and the Vexin, Margaret became the second wife of Béla III of Hungary in 1186.[3]
She was
Notes
- ^ "The Chronicle of Ernoul records the arrival of "une reine en Hongrie...veve sans hoir" at Tyre [in 1197] and her death eight days later, specifying that she was the sister of the mother of Henri Comte de Champagne King of Jerusalem and had been "feme...le jouene roi d'Englietere…et suer…le roi Phelippe de France"[4]
References
- ^ a b Baldwin 2005, p. 9.
- ^ Warren 1973, p. 111.
- ^ Laszlovszky 2016, p. 84.
- ^ de Mas Latrie 1871, p. 302.
Sources
- Baldwin, John W. (2005). "Chrétien in History". In Lacy, Norris J.; Grimbert, Joan Tasker (eds.). A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes. DS Brewer.
- Laszlovszky, József (2016). "Local Tradition or European Patterns? The grave of Gertrude in the Pilis Cistercian Abbey". In Jaritz, Gerhard; Szende, Katalin (eds.). Medieval East Central Europe in a Comparative Perspective. Routledge.
- de Mas Latrie, Louis, ed. (1871). "XXVI". Chronique d'Ernoul et de Bernard le Trésorier (in French). Libraire de la Societie de L'Histoire de France.
- Warren, W. L. (1973). Henry II. University of California Press.