Agnes of Merania

Agnes of Merania
Queen consort of the Franks
Tenure	1196–1200
Born	1175
Died	July 1201 (1201-08)
Spouse	Philip II of France
Issue	Marie, Duchess of Brabant Philip I, Count of Boulogne
House	Andechs
Father	Berthold, Duke of Merania
Mother	Agnes of Rochlitz

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

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

Agnes and Philip had two children:

• Mary, b. 1198 ^[5]
• Philip I, Count of Boulogne, b 1200 ^[5]

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

References

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

Sources

• 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.

External links

Media related to Agnes of Merania, Queen of France at Wikimedia Commons

French royalty
Preceded by Ingeborg of Denmark	Queen consort of France 1196–1201	Succeeded by Ingeborg of Denmark