Agnes of Merania
Agnes of Merania | |
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Queen consort of France | |
Tenure | 1196–1200 |
Born | 1175 |
Died | 1201 |
Spouse | Philip II of France |
Issue | Philip I, Count of Boulogne Marie of France, Duchess of Brabant |
House | Andechs |
Father | Berthold, Duke of Merania |
Mother | Agnes of Rochlitz |
Religion | Catholicism |
Agnes of Merania (died 1201) was a queen of France. She is called Marie by some of the French chroniclers.[1]
Biography[]
Agnes Maria was the daughter of Berthold, Duke of Merania,[1] who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria. Her mother was Agnes of Rochlitz.[2]
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.[1]
Agnes died giving birth to their third child in July of the next year, at the castle of Poissy, and was buried in the , near Nantes.[1]
Family[]
Agnes and Philip had two children: Philip I, Count of Boulogne and Mary, who were legitimized by the Pope in 1201 at the request of the King.[3] Little is known of the personality of Agnes, beyond the remarkable influence which she seems to have exercised over Philip.[1]
Artistic representation[]
She has been made the heroine of a tragedy by François Ponsard, Agnès de Méranie,[1] and of an opera by Vincenzo Bellini, La straniera.
Notes[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f Chisholm 1911, p. 378.
- ^ Jiri Louda et Michael MacLagan, Les Dynasties d'Europe, Bordas, 1995. (ISBN 2-04-027115-5); see also in French, Agnès de Wettin: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnès_de_Wettin.
- ^ John W. Baldwin, Paris 1200, Stanford University Press, 2010. ISBN 9780804772075
References[]
- public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Agnes of Meran". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 378. Endnotes:
- See The notes of Robert Davidsohn in Philipp II. August von Frankreich und Ingeborg (Stuttgart, 1888). A genealogical notice is furnished by the Chronicon of the monk Alberic (Aubry) of Fontaines, (Albericus Trium Fontium) in Pertz, Scriptores, vol. xxiii. pp. 872 f., and by the Genealogia Wettinensis, ibid. p. 229.
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External links[]
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- 12th-century births
- 1201 deaths
- French queens consort
- Repudiated queens
- House of Andechs
- House of Capet
- 12th-century French people
- 12th-century French women
- 13th-century French people
- 13th-century French women
- Wives of Philip II of France
- Deaths in childbirth