Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France

Not to be confused with Marie de Luxembourg, Countess of Vendôme.

Marie of Luxembourg

Queen consort of France and Navarre
Reign	1322–1324
Coronation	15 May 1323

Born	1304
Died	26 March 1324 (aged 19–20)
Burial	Montargis
Spouse	Charles IV of France
House	Luxembourg
Father	Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor
Mother	Margaret of Brabant
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Marie of Luxembourg (1304 – 26 March 1324), was by birth member of the House of Luxembourg and by marriage Queen of France and Navarre.

She was the daughter of Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor and Margaret of Brabant. 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. The engagement was agreed on soon after Marie's father Henry became King of the Romans; Rudolf had been a supporter of her father during the struggle for power. It ended due to the death of Louis around 1311.^[1] During the same year, Marie's mother Queen Margaret died whilst travelling with Henry in Geno.

On 21 September 1322 in either Paris^[2] or Provins^[3] Marie married to Charles IV of France following the annulment of his first marriage to the adulterous Blanche of Burgundy. 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.

On 15 May 1323 Marie was consecrated Queen of France at Sainte-Chapelle by Guillaume de Melum, Archbishop of Sens.^[4] 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 to visit the pope when Marie fell out of the bottom of the coach.^[5] 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, but failed to father a son, so the direct House of Capet was succeeded its branch, the House of Valois.

Ancestors

Ancestors of Marie of Luxembourg, Queen of France

16. Waleran III of Limburg

8. Henry V, Count of Luxembourg

17. Ermesinde, Countess of Luxembourg

4. Henry VI, Count of Luxembourg

18. Henry II of Bar

9. Margaret of Bar

19. Philippa of Dreux

2. Henry VII, Holy Roman Emperor

20. Bouchard IV of Avesnes

10. Baldwin of Avesnes

21. Margaret II, Countess of Flanders

5. Beatrice d'Avesnes

22. Thomas II of Coucy

11. Félicité of Coucy

23. Mahaut of Rethel

1. Marie of Luxembourg

24. Henry II, Duke of Brabant

12. Henry III, Duke of Brabant

25. Marie of Hohenstaufen

6. John I, Duke of Brabant

26. Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy

13. Adelaide of Burgundy

27. Yolande of Dreux

3. Margaret of Brabant

28. William II of Dampierre

14. Guy of Dampierre

29. Margaret II, Countess of Flanders (= 21.)

7. Margaret of Flanders

30. Robert VII of Bethune

15. Matilda of Béthune

31. Isabel of Mori

References

↑ Luxembourg, Medieval Lands
↑ Jean-Marc Cazilhac: Jeanne d'Evreux, Blanche de Navarre : Deux reines de France, deux douairières durant la Guerre de Cent ans, Editions L'Harmattan, 2010, 178 p., p. 20.
↑ Christian Bouyer: Dictionnaire des Reines de France, Librairie Académique Perrin, 1992, p. 201.
↑ Alexandre Le Noble: Histoire du Sacre et du Couronnement des Rois et Reines de France, Paris, Imprimerie Gaultier-Laguionie, 1825, p. 208 [retrieved 9 January 2015].
↑ RHGF XXI, E floribus chronicorum auctore Bernardo Guidonis, p. 733.

French royalty
Preceded by Blanche of Burgundy	Queen consort of France and Navarre 1322–1324	Succeeded by Jeanne d'Évreux

Queens and Empresses of France

Adelaide of Aquitaine Rozala of Italy Bertha of Burgundy Constance of Arles Matilda of Frisia Anne of Kiev Bertha of Holland Bertrade de Montfort Adelaide of Maurienne Eleanor of Aquitaine Constance of Castile Adèle of Champagne Isabella of Hainault Ingeborg of Denmark Agnes of Merania Blanche of Castile Margaret of Provence Isabella of Aragon Maria of Brabant Joan I of Navarre Margaret of Burgundy Clementia of Hungary Joan II of Burgundy Blanche of Burgundy Marie of Luxembourg Jeanne d'Évreux Joan the Lame Blanche of Navarre Joan I of Auvergne Joanna of Bourbon Isabeau of Bavaria Marie of Anjou Charlotte of Savoy Anne of Brittany Joan of France Mary Tudor Claude of France Eleanor of Austria Catherine de' Medici Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots Elisabeth of Austria Louise of Lorraine Margaret of Valois Marie de' Medici Anne of Austria Maria Theresa of Spain Marie Leszczyńska Marie Antoinette of Austria Marie Joséphine of Savoy* Joséphine de Beauharnais Marie Louise of Austria Marie Thérèse of France* Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily Eugénie de Montijo

*disputed

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